CXDT | Shaping your Future Workshop Day 1

Your Future is a nationally acclaimed, civic engagement initiative and is an affiliate of the nonprofit National Coming of Age, NYC, NY. It provides participants with a unique opportunity to focus on enhancing their professional and personal life experiences.   Through hands-on learning and inter-active discussion participants have the opportunity to more clearly understand how to use their interests, abilities, skills, experience and passions to find increased fulfillment, purpose and meaning for the coming decades.  Over the course of 2 workshops, August 17^th and 24^th you will cover the following (below) Please plan to attend all four sessions as they build on one another.  The sessions are:

1. What Has Influenced Me? – Participants reflect on what has meant most to them in their lives and brought the greatest fulfillment while they explore people and events that have influenced them, their lives’ themes, patterns and strengths.
2. Who Am I Now? – Through self-discovery and assessment, participants identify where they are in their lives today and what talents they have. They explore values and motivators, passions and interests, individual gifts, strengths and aspirations.

1. How Can I Realize My Dreams? – Once participants gain more self-awareness, they address practical ways to align their values, passions and gifts by learning creative techniques for generating life options, strategies to fuse passion, purpose and personal strengths, and ways to imagine potential.
2. How Do I Create an Engaged Life? – Participants develop individual action plans based on specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely (SMART) goals; real and perceived challenges; and resources to help them reach their goals.