#PASSIONTOPURPOSE VIRTU A L YOUTH LE A DERSHIP SUMMIT ADAPT, EVOLVE AND LEAD IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD WELCOME 2 ABOUT 3 EVENT SCHEDULE 4 DAY 1 5 CONTENTS DAY 2 17 OF DAY 3 31 DAY 4 48 BLE A DAY 5 66 T I want to welcome you to the Passion to Purpose event 2021, hosted by The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award - Canada, as part of the Canada Service Corps initiative. We hope that this forum does exactly as its title suggests: help to inspire and motivate you to turn whatever you are passionate about into something purposeful, something that helps your community, however you wish to define that term.If you are attending this conference you have expressed a desire to take on a role as a Leader in your community. This forum is designed to encourage you to identify the skills, attributes and drivers that might make you more successful in this leadership role. Successful in the sense of drawing others into your project, engaging fully with partners and others members of our wonderful civil society amd WELCOME ensuring that what you set out to achieve has real community impact. I hope you enjoy your initial experience and are able to take away from this week something that helps you build a future of which you are proud to be a part and for which you can feel responsible. Stephen De-Wint National Executive Director The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award - Canada 2 PASSION TO PURPOSE Passion to Purpose (P2P) is a comprehensive, youth forum that is designed to foster community service through civic leadership in young Canadians. Participants from across the country have engaged in inspirational keynotes, workshops, team building exercises and activities that develop passion into action plans that can be executed within their communities. Through the P2P program and in partnership with the Federal Government, young Canadians aged 15 to 30 have the opportunity to apply for a community grant in an effort to bring the projects to life. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S INTERNATIONAL AWARD The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award (The Award) is a global program whose goal is to challenge, empower, and recognize young people between the ages of 16 and 24. From coast to coast since 1963, the Award in Canada has supported young Canadians to challenge themselves to achieve personal goals and take control of their lives and future. We reach young Canadians in all communities and give them an experiential yet supportive platform to develop the skills they need to find success in life. We are an BOUT international Award program that champions young Canadians as they become the best they can be. A CANADA SERVICE CORPS Canada Service Corps (CSC) is a Federal program piloted by the Employment Social Development Canada (ESDC). The program encourages young Canadians to get involved in their community through service opportunities, while at the same time gaining valuable skills that will benefit them in life and work. Just as important, the experience will give them a new perspective on their community and will make them better citizens. The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award is one of the coalition partners piloting this initiative. The Canada Service Corps is currently in the process of accepting micro grant applications to assist young Canadians with their own project ideas 3 The Passion to Purpose Youth Leadership Summit will give young leaders the tools and skillsets they need to reinvigorate their passions so that they can tackle community change post the COVID-19 pandemic. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT. BUILDING YOU! The first day focuses on rebuilding confidence in the participant's ability and skills while also discussing ways to energize oneself from COVID-19 Fatigue. Presentations and interactive workshops will revolve around working on the skills DAY 1 you may have lost touch with during quarantine/lockdown due to lack of in person interaction with others. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: FINDING YOUR LIGHT! The second day builds on the skills and abilities discovered during Day 1. The sessions and workshops on Day 2 will focus on matching your skill sets and passions to workable solutions for community impact. It looks at what you can offer to your DAY 2 communities as solutions for community issues and how these solutions can be designed to fit the community's needs. BUILDING YOUR PASSION INTO A PROJECT Day 3 is all about workshops that are designed to support SCHEDULE building and developing a small-scale project for community impact. Workshop activities will focus on solution building, resource mapping, budget planning, and project timelines. DAY 3 You will use the Award's Community Action Plan workbook to focus on and map out a community engagement action plan. LEADER'S TOOLKIT: BUILDING YOUR SKILL SET Day 4 offers a hands-on workshop on communicating with confidence in the morning. Followed by option workshops for you during the afternoon. You can choose to attend the afternoon workshops or work with your groups on designing a DAY 4 sample project idea for presentation day. Workshops include topics on civic engagement, social responsibility, systemic change, project management, entrepreneurship. EVENT PRESENTATIONS We are starting the final day with an important session on Indigenous Allyship. After relearning our ways to interact, engage and support Indigenous communities, groups will deliver their project ideas to their peers. Every participant who DAY 5 attends our Virtual leadership summit will qualify for a P2P community service grant. 4 Personal Development: Building YOU! EST SESSION DESCRIPTION OPENING Welcome to the Passion to Purpose 11:30 am REMARKS Virtual Leadership Forum! We will be focusing on development, leadership, LEADERSHIP and navigating change. Alison will be speaking on DURING TIMES tips for youth to discover their inner leader and 11:45 am OF CHANGE their greatness. We will also cover building confidence to make positive changes and shape with the communities around you and the importance of Alison Springer overcoming challenges. In this Award Holder led workshop, you will be WHAT ARE jotting down the challenges that you are facing MY GENII? personally and professionally. Let's reflect on the 12:30 pm with following: 1 Melissa Tobin What do you want to overcome? How do you think you could do this? 1:15 pm NETWORKING BREAK Y We will discuss the importance of personal and DESIGNING professional skill development. Let's address the YOUR FUTURE fear of change and the fear of failure as well as 1:40 pm with adopt a “can-do” mindset and rise above the A Swish Goswami naysayers. You will learn to respond vs. react to change and uncertainty. D WHAT DO I HAVE In this workshop, we will be doing self-reflection TO OFFER? exercises about the skills you wish to further 2:30 pm with develop and how these skills can be used to Joelle McPhee service the communities you are connected to. P2P Alumni from today's session will be available to answer questions about projects, tips & tricks 3:20 pm PANEL and lessons learned while they were doing their community service projects. CLOSING Let's recap Day 1 and discuss what 3:35 pm REMARKS tomorrow will look like! HOMEWORK CLUB It's time to break out into groups to work on your 3:40pm **MANDATORY FOR sample grant projects and worksheets in your book! P2P TO GOLD** DAY ENDS AT 4:30 PM 5 ALISON SPRINGER Our speaker Alison Springer has been working with youth for over 20 years and she loves it. Living in Calgary, she is a professional youth speaker who travels all across Canada to speak to students at schools, camps, and conferences. Alison is also the Founder of Young Women of Power an organization that inspires female greatness hosting a Conference every year for teens girls this year in October. Alison was awarded the 2019 Women of Inspiration Difference Maker Award for the impact she has on youth and especially females across Canada. She coached High School basketball for so many years, but don’t be fooled, her favourite sport is actually…volleyball. Alison is passionate about helping students discover the greatness that lies within, while placing high value on people and self. Too often it is easier to see our weaknesses than our strengths, which affects how we treat each other. Get ready to view your weaknesses in a new light. MELISSA TOBIN GUESTS Melissa Tobin is an award alumni and a passionate leader from Newfoundland and Labrador. She is a cat lover, outdoor enthusiast and a third year medical student at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Melissa is a long time volunteer with Special Olympics and has held numerous leadership MELISSApositions at the localTOBIN and provincial level. She attended the first P2P Forum in 2018 and subsequently created the Sunshine Swim Camp. In 2020, she was awarded a $15,000 scale up grant from the Duke of Ed and created Sunshine Kindness Kits and the Sunshine Summer Challenge. Melissa’s is looking forward to continuing her impact by mentoring other youth to create change in their communities. 6 JOELLE MACPHEE Joelle MacPhee is a passionate product marketer who loves working on educational products that make a difference. After graduating from business school, Joelle joined her grandmother, a leading reading researcher, to launch Ooka Island, a research- based, reading company for students in grades PreK-2. During this time, Joelle applied her "try anything once" marketing philosophy and scaled Ooka Island’s user base worldwide in 36 countries. Joelle has appeared on CBC's Dragons’ Den, BNN's Disruptors Series, and the W Network's Backyard Inventors.