Female Leadership Community at Ocean Academy in Caye Caulker, Belize


The Ocean Academy Female Leadership community (FLC) is an elective enrichment program that empowers young women to strengthen their leadership skills, while experiencing growth and identity development through the power of sharing, teamwork, and earned success.

Encourage them in becoming a strong, fierce, and empowered woman! A leader for their community! Working with other young women to create a unique community entirely dedicated to their needs.

The FLC is conducted around 3 units: ignite, educate and agitate.

Ignite: Create community through safe space creation, sharing of stories, empowerment rituals, and sistahood.

Educate: Empower young peoples’ minds through the exploration of the unique issues affecting young women today through reading, researching, and journaling.

Agitate: Become empowered leaders through the development of a community-based action project that will ignite and educate other youth and/or the larger community, and share the values of the FLC community.

22.2.12

NOTES FROM OUR FLC MEETING WITH GUEST SPEAKER ALLISON PIERRE (FEB. 2012)


Allison Pierre is a lawyer and prosecutor In New York City, USA:

·      - You have options in your career
·      - Work hard
·      - College is important if you wish to   give your career a push

BRAINSTORM:

- If you would like to be a nurse, you might consider becoming a doctor, pediatrician, a gynecologist

- If you like math and consider working in a bank, you might consider becoming an engineer

- If you would like to become a carpenter, you might consider becoming an architect


·      Put yourself first
·      Make choices
·      Learn to say YES to an opportunity
·      Learn to say NO to influences that are negative for your mind and body
·      Take care of yourself
·      You can have both: family & career
·      Wait for Mr. do-it-right

LIVE BOLDLY!!!

Posted by at