Participants begin with a Key Leader Conference. This weekend retreat includes team-building activities, discussions, and large and small group workshops. The leadership skills students will learn during the Key Leader Conference will stay with them and help them change their schools, communities, and the world for the better.

Participants will have the opportunity to explore leadership in a whole new way while also making amazing new friends and enjoying experiences they’ll never forget. The positive and ongoing interaction they’ll have with other Key Leader graduates will offer continuing reinforcement, encouragement, and growth of their newfound leadership skills. 

• • Self-Awareness – accurately assessing your own feelings, values, interests, strengths, and abilities and maintaining a well-grounded sense of self-confidence. 
  • Self-Management – regulating your emotions to appropriately handle stress, persevere in overcoming obstacles, express emotions constructively, and control impulses. Setting personal and academic goals and monitoring your progress towards achieving them.
  • Social Awareness – empathizing with others, recognizing and appreciating individual and group similarities and differences, identifying and following social standards of conduct, and recognizing and using school, community, and family resources.  
  • Relationship Skills – establishing and maintaining healthy, cooperative, and rewarding relationships, preventing, managing, and resolving interpersonal conduct, resisting inappropriate social pressure, and seeking help when needed. 
  • Responsible Decision Making – making smart decisions based on factors such as ethical standards, safety concerns, respect for others, appropriate standards of conduct, and the likely consequences of various actions. Applying decision-making skills to academic and social situations, and contributing to the well-being of your school and community. 

Most of all, it’s fun!!