<aside> <img src="/icons/bell-notification_green.svg" alt="/icons/bell-notification_green.svg" width="40px" /> Overview: This course empowers young leaders by exploring the Sage and Saboteur mindsets through interactive workshops. Students identify their Sage powers, manage Saboteurs, and practice shifting from negative to positive responses. Creative activities and a final project where students present skits underscore the impact of this mindset shift on leadership.

This is a course designed specifically for the UWC ISAK Summer School and is taught by UWC USA graduate Tristan Lim - a TEDx speaker, facilitator, and coach.

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Course Objectives

1. Cultivate Self-Awareness: To help students identify and understand their inner Sage and Saboteur, fostering greater self-awareness and emotional intelligence.
2. Enhance Leadership Skills: To empower students with the tools to apply Sage powers in leadership scenarios, promoting effective, empathetic, and innovative leadership.
3. Foster Positive Mindset Shifts: To teach students how to 'flip the script' from Saboteur-led reactions to Sage-driven responses, enhancing resilience, problem-solving, and positive engagement with challenges.

What theory is this course based on?

**Positive Intelligence (PQ):** a concept developed by Shirzad Chamine that refers to the ability to control one's mind and thoughts in a way that positively impacts their actions and interactions. It emphasizes the balance between positive (Sage) and negative (Saboteur) mindsets.

Personal integrated experiences: Tristan’s personal experience undergoing intensive PQ program, along with experience of applying the concept to everyday life & adapting the PQ mindset.

Why is this relevant for 13-14 year olds?

Introducing PQ to young adolescents provides them with tools to navigate complex emotions and situations, fostering a more positive and proactive approach to challenges they encounter.

• Healthy emotional regulation: It helps in forming healthy coping mechanisms during a critical period of emotional and social development.
• Deep empathy for self & others: Encourages self-awareness and mindfulness, which are key in shaping responsible and empathetic individuals.
• Leadership skills: Enhances communication and leadership skills, beneficial in both personal growth and academic success.

Workshop 1: Meet Your Inner Heroes (The Sages)

<aside> 💡 Objective: Help students identify their Sage powers and enhance the Sage mindset in a playful and fun way.

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<aside> 🧠 Key Question: "How can recognizing and empowering our 'Sage' guide us to become better leaders?"

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Activities

1. Get to know the 5 Sage Powers
   • Unravel our 5 Sage powers - emphastise, explore, innovate, navigate, and activate.
2. Sage Identification Exercise:
   • Guided activity to help students recognize their own 'Sage' characteristics, using reflective questions and group discussions.
   • Some questions include
3. Sage Wisdom Box:
   • Create a collective wisdom box where students share anonymous pieces of advice or insights from their 'Sage' selves, creating an inspiration source for the group. Answers are then read out anonymously.
4. Sage Superhero Creation:
   • Students create their own 'Sage Superhero' character that embodies their Sage powers. They'll draw their superhero and share its story, highlighting its 'Sage' powers in overcoming challenges.
5. Mindful Moments:
   • Practice short mindfulness exercises aimed at connecting with the 'Sage,' - breathing, visual focus/defocus, hearing near/far sounds.

Workshop 2: Meet Your Inner Villain (The Saboteurs)

<aside> 💡 Objective: Help students identify their Saboteurs and teach them how to weaken them

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<aside> 🧠 Key Question: "What impact do the 'Saboteurs' have on us, and how can we weaken them?"

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Activities

1. Get to know the 9 Saboteurs:
   • Quick overview on the 9 Saboteurs
   • Here’s a picture with an overview
2. Saboteur Bingo:
   • A bingo game where each square represents a common 'Saboteur' action or thought pattern. Students mark off squares as they discuss how they've encountered or overcome these in their lives.