The document discusses cultivating young people's potential through discovering their "Real You". It introduces the YES Project which aims to organize, plan, experience, evaluate and repeat experiences to help students operate their lives. Students are encouraged to know themselves by exploring their personality, talents and values in order to trust themselves and share their gifts. The Real You is described as students' talents, passions and stands. Students are challenged to discover and honor their sustainability to prevent "dying with their music still inside them".

1. Your Missing Piece?
The Real You makes all
the difference
Morgan Rich
Play Huge Coaching, LLC
www.playhuge.com

2. The moment

3. Overview
• Young People’s potential and challenges
• The YES Project
• The Real You
• Know Yourself
• Trust Yourself
• Your Real World
• Wrap up and a surprise

4. Your Outcomes
• What do you want to get from this session?

5. The world today:
Challenges
• Economic
• Environment
• Moral

6. quot;We cannot solve our problems with the same
thinking we used when we created them.quot;
- Albert Einstein

7. Global Climate Change

8. Save the Planet

9. um. no.

11. economy.

12. yikes

13. kids better off?

14. Moral

15. Sam Adams
Blagojevich
Daschle
Clemens
Madoff
A Rod
Enron
the other 103

16. First students

17. The Change Era

18. make a difference

19. role models...
mentors...

20. um, anyone home?

21. corruption

22. failing relationships

23. Poor performance.

24. Dissatisfaction.

25. Things matter

26. but

27. more to it

28. It is there

29. Millions of voices...

30. “We want change.”

31. They know.

32. They sense it.

33. no words.

34. no clear explanation.

35. but they sense it

36. listen.

37. watch.

38. feel.

39. It is there.

40. But,
what to do about it?

41. I want...
change.
to make a difference.
to share my gifts.
Meaning and Fulfillment.

42. desperate

43. Where do they go?

44. College.

45. looking for...

46. answers. direction. hope.

47. role models
mentors
guides

48. ways to share their gifts.

49. Our work?

50. Cultivate it.

51. How?

52. Today.

53. Activity for Today
The
Young Enthusiastic Students
(YES)
Project

54. The YES Project
A frame
OPERATER
Organize and Plan
Experience (be Realistic, be Accountable, call Time-out)
Evaluate
Repeat
from Be the OPERATER of your life
Ralph

55. The pieces of the puzzle

56. Young People
Full of talent, passion, creativity
Future leaders
Help them remain optimistic
Cultivate their abilities

57. The moment

58. There is a piece missing

59. Stories
Attrition Rates
“I wish I had those 4 years back”
Harvard students...selling out
Teaching Professor

60. Cultivating
The Real You
Define
Know Yourself
Trust Yourself

61. The Real You
The gnawing feeling
Your talents, passions, gifts
Your Stand(s)
Create your living legacy

62. RIP
My gift to the world never
woke up.
“He died with his music still inside him.”
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stumbled upon some truth when
he said quot;most people go to their graves with their music still inside them.quot;

63. Our work?

64. Listen.

65. Cultivate it.
Wake it up!

66. Transition:
Concept to reality

67. Know Yourself
• Personality and Brain Evaluations
• VAK, 8 Intelligences, Myers Briggs
• Your Stand
• Ropes Course - Team Building
• Awaken their spirit
• Play Huge notebook

68. Know Yourself
•Open the door...
• Encourage exploration
• Share how you value it (and show it)
• Provide examples
• The Theme of Orientation and Year One
• Build a foundation

69. How to incorporate this into
your program?

70. The YES Project
Your Program Objective
Cultivate every students gift
Details
4 day Orientation & First semester class
2000 students in incoming class
10 program leaders
100 student leaders
Faculty involvement (for classes)

71. The YES Project
Know Yourself
Awaken their Real You
Get students to connect with who they want to be
Understand their gifts
How do you want your students to feel?
Focus on the Orientation program
In 4 days how will you cultivate a connection to the Real You?

72. What I feel like saying...
How I want students to feel:
Part of community
Supported/Mentored
Safe, challenged, encouraged to risk...and fail
...and learn
Informed about how to handle challenges
Uncomfortable

73. The noise
that allowed him to leave

74. What do you feel like saying...

75. Stories
Going to camp
Marginalized
Revolutionary Road
The Hypnotist

76. RIP
If only I had the courage...
“He died with his music still inside him.”
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes stumbled upon some truth when
he said quot;most people go to their graves with their music still inside them.quot;

77. Trust Yourself
• Structure
• Consistency - Maintain the Focus
• Everything Speaks
• Access to resources for ease of powerful expression
• Coaching
• Peer coaching
• Student Leaders
• Professional coaching
• Community
• Creating support among peers
• Revisit the Theme of Orientation and Year One
• Consistently build on the foundation

78. How do you
honor sustainability?

79. The YES Project
Trust Yourself
Want each student to believe in themselves
Create supportive community
Honor Sustainability
How do you make the connection last?
How do you support the student who gets wooed by the big
financial offer?
Design the courses and other ongoing projects

80. What I feel like saying...
How I honor sustainability:
Establish OPERATER
Decision making team
Create Community

81. What do you feel like saying...

82. Stories
Loyola student - decision based on reality
Vanilla Bikes
How much do you compromise
Conscious Action

83. The YES Project
Into Reality
How can you adapt your program?
What did you discover that you can make happen in your world?
I can make it happen:
I need help making it happen:
You as OPERATER
My commitment for this year is...

84. Stories
Wrap-up
The Real You
Cultivate Know Yourself
Establish Trust Yourself
Honor Sustainability

85. Surprise...

86. Modeling How to Discover the
Real You
Step I - Imagining the Ideal Scenario (The YES Project)
Introduce parameters
Get to know your group
Step II - Your place (Know Yourself)
Who you are & what you stand for
Your gift to the world
Step III - Honoring Sustainability (Trust Yourself)
Making it last
Structures that would
Step IV - Applying it to your Life (Your Reality)
How can these things happen in your world?

87. Launch Your Life: 5 secrets to knowing what you want in your teens.
college years and early career
Morgan Rich
Play Huge Coaching, LLC
mrich@playhuge.com