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The Youth Empowerment Seminar (YES!)

The Youth Empowerment Seminar (YES!) is a dynamic and fun program that challenges teens to take responsibility for their life and provides a comprehensive set of practical tools for releasing stress, mastering emotions, and raising self-awareness. The program addresses:

  • Teens’ physical, mental, social, and emotional development
  • Breathing techniques to relieve stress and bring the mind into focus
  • Dynamic games and yoga
  • Practical knowledge to create awareness
  • Experiential processes to develop problem-solving strategies
  • Dynamic group discussions designed to help teens feel at ease in challenging situations, increase confidence, withstand criticism and peer pressure

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Melissa
Los Angeles
The YES program has made a significant change in my life. Before, I would go to school grumpy and upset due to things that had occurred the day before.
Maryam Mehboob
Pakistan, Youth Empowerment Seminar
The Youth Empowerment Seminar has helped me immensely. I have been dependent on drugs for a while. I never thought I had the stamina to live without them. Amazingly, I am more calm and happy now. I have discovered a new energy in myself.
Marius

I started using alcohol and hashish at the age of 15, but it continued very quickly into amphetamine, ecstasy, Rohypnol and more. But now, I am happy to have dropped this habit. People think they will become happy if they get the nicest house and the coolest car. But happiness comes from within.
SIMA
Aarschot, the 1st school in Belgium to organize the YES course
Although the class has the reputation of being
Maryam Mehboob
Pakistan
The Youth Empowerment Seminar has helped me immensely. I have been dependent on drugs for a while. I never thought I had the stamina to live without them. Amazingly, I am more calm and happy now. I have discovered a new energy in myself.
William Richardson
, Former director of Los Angeles County, V. A. P Anger Management Program, Camp Michael Smith, Camp Francis Scobee, Lancaster, CA
Wards who entered the camp with their hard, angry composures and delinquent attitudes were transformed by the end of one week into happy, smiling youngsters. . . . In the 33 years of my probation experience, I have never seen such responses.
Jituli
Being a youth I’ve undergone so many challenges and so many times it resulted in being depressed, angry. it’s all so confusing at this age... but when I did the Sudarshan Kriya it changed all this. Once upon a time I would just criticize myself so much, I use to hate myself. but the kriya made me feel beautiful from inside. I, then, started loving and respecting myself. It changed my attitude towards life completely.!
SIMA
Although the class has the reputation of being “not easy”, the Art of Living succeeded in bringing more peace to the class and in improving the team spirit by means of breathing techniques, yoga, group processes and play in ways that the students themselves enjoyed, as became clear afterwards.
Maryam Mehboob
The Youth Empowerment Seminar has helped me immensely.I have been dependent on drugs for a while.I never thought I had the stamina to live without them. Amazingly, I am more calm and happy now.I have discovered a new energy in myself.
William Richardson, Former director of Los Angeles
Wards who entered the camp with their hard, angry composures and delinquent attitudes were transformed by the end of one week into happy, smiling youngsters. In the 33 years of my probation experience, I have never seen such responses.
Melissa
The YES program has made a significant change in my life. Before, I would go to school grumpy and upset due to things that had occurred the day before.I wouldn't do well in school and I’d lash out at people for no reason. After I took the YES program, I used the breathing techniques they taught me to calm myself down.I no longer was grumpy and upset, but jolly and friendly. Even my grades are higher.
Melissa

“The YES program has made a significant change in my life. Before, I would go to school grumpy and upset due to things that had occurred the day before. I wouldn't do well in school and I’d lash out at people for no reason. After I took the YES program, I used the breathing techniques they taught me to calm myself down. I no longer was grumpy and upset, but jolly and friendly. Even my grades are higher.”
 

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