Personal Development and Continuing Education

Personal Development and Continuing Education

Personal development and continuing education are essential for supporting BIPOC youth and young adults on their career paths by equipping them with the skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to overcome challenges and seize opportunities. These processes help individuals build a strong foundation for professional success, foster critical thinking, and enhance leadership abilities. Continuous learning also opens doors to a wide range of career options, empowering young people to break through barriers, build networks, and ultimately achieve long-term career growth and financial independence. By investing in personal development and education, we provide Black youth with the tools to shape their own futures and thrive in a competitive and ever-evolving workforce.

W2H’s Personal Development Programs 

Life Quest and Life Strategies

This program provides a roadmap and a set of core principles (strategies) to help you grow in emotional maturity and live a life of personal effectiveness, fulfillment, self-esteem and positive relationships. Life Quest provides participants with an opportunity to complete a comprehensive life inventory and then envision the future, developing a personal mission and in-depth plan for the next stage of his/her life.

Life Strategies is a program on personal empowerment and how to make strengthening choices, enabling people to live from vision, integrity, commitment, personal responsibility and love for self and others. Life Coaching is a powerful relationship that engages an individual in a deep and honest exploration of his/her goals and the actions required to accomplish them. Coaching supports, challenges and holds the client accountable to make consistent and often dramatic progress towards the realization of their most important aspirations.

Learning Objectives

• Understand your “true self” as a key to success and fulfillment
• Reflect upon and learn valuable lessons from your past
• Learn about the dynamic relationship between inner and outer success
• Understand and value your core personality traits
• Identify the passions that fuel you
• Clarify the principles by which you choose to live
• Learn to be grounded and make decisions from your higher self
• Take inventory of your current roles and activities
• Create a compelling vision of the future
• Develop a master plan to get you to that future
• Identify and learn how to work through obstacles that keep you from your desired future

Self Mastery

Masters are the victors of life; those who step up to the challenges and opportunities of life with the courage, determination, and wisdom to win the private and public victories. Mastery does not happen by accident. It is a process that occurs as we interact effectively with the events and circumstances of our lives. Each  moment of our lives provides an opportunity to practice mastery by expanding our visions, awakening the faculties of our minds and our hearts, and assuming full responsibility for living, growing, and contributing.

People who attend this program will learn a set of principles that will change the way they view their lives as well as their performance on the job. They will grow in self understanding, confidence, personal effectiveness, and their ability to l-ranc1le tire challenges/ opportunities of the workplace. Such personal transformation forms the foundation for organizational transformation.

• The Integrity Model: A paradigm of personal effectiveness that defines success as what happens within you rather than what happens to you
• Embrace Reality: Discover power and fulfillment as you stop wasting time resenting, complaining, wishing, and blaming and instead keep your focus on what you can control
• Exercise Responsibility: See how your success and quality of life come from choices you make and learn to act rather than react to the events of your life
• Conquer Your Key Moments: Learn how to conquer and transcend the challenges of life by changing your thinking, feelings, and behavior
• Clarify Your Vision: Know what you want and the steps that you must take to achieve it
• Define Your Purpose: Decide what your life is about and those principles by which you will govern yourself
• Act With Integrity: Translate your purpose and vision into reality and make your day-to-day actions consistent with what is most important
• Value Who You Are: Make a decision to care for yourself, accept your weaknesses, and acknowledge and build upon your strengths.

Emotional intelligence

Emotional intelligence, also called EQ, is the ability to be aware of and to manage emotions and relationships. It’s a pivotal factor in personal and professional success. IQ will get you in the door, but it is your EQ, your ability to connect with others and manage the emotions of yourself and others, that will determine how successful you are in life.

We have all worked with and listened to brilliant people. Some of them were great and… well, some were not so great. The mean and the meek and all those in between can teach us more than they realize. When we look at the truly extraordinary people who inspire and make a difference you will see that they do this by connecting with
people at a personal and emotional level. What differentiated them was not their IQ but their EQ – their emotional intelligence.

This one-day workshop will help you teach participants how to:

• Understand what emotional intelligence means
• Recognize how our emotional health and physical health are related
• Learn techniques to understand, use, and appreciate the role of emotional intelligence in the workplace
• Understand the different emotions and how to manage them
• Create a personal vision statement
• Understand the difference between optimism and pessimism
• Validate emotions in others