MLK Creating SoulForce for Youth & Young Adults
This seminar will look at the rise and challenge of SNCC movement within the Civil Rights movement. In the labs this seminar will examine the promise and challenge of the youth movement in South Africa, China and United States.
Online
$150
8 sessions over 4 weeks
“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.“
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
from “Strength to Love”
The Discipline of Cybernetics
Applying the discipline of cybernetics to youth leadership program development
Opportunity Youth
Designing and implementing a leadership curriculum for opportunity youth
King interpretation
Prepare a philosophy of youth engagement that has at its core the King interpretation of Soul Force
Review of history of youth programs typology
- Intervention
- Prevention
- Social programming
- Leadership
Lab
- Youth Potential Today
- Northern Ireland Youth Program
- South African Youth
Cybernetics and SoulForce
- Gandhi use of SoulForce
- King use of SoulForce
Lab
- Cambodia and Hope issues
- 1960’s Kids movement
Obstacles and opportunities
- Finding Leaders
- Mentorship
- Teachers vs. facilitators
Lab
- Exercise for Training vs. Teaching
Assessment
- Markers of success
- Tracking and Selecting Youth
- Magnification Affect
Lab
- Case study for achievement
- Live conversation
Thought Leaders
Rev. Byron Bland
Retired Associate Director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation and a research associate at CDDRL
Stanford, CA

Bishop Ernie Jackson, MBA
Bishop of Grace Tabernacle Church
San Francisco, CA
Floyd Thompkins, Jr.
Chief Executive Officer
Justice and Peace Foundation
Requirements
Software Requirements
Mac: OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 or later.
Browser: The latest version of Safari, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred.
Zoom: Click here to download Zoom
Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
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