"Changing Attitudes; Increasing Aptitudes ...Elevating Altitudes"

LPD-LS W/OPS-KP

(Leadership & Personal Development-Life Skills with Operation Shoestring & Kuumba Promos) 

The bi-monthly Tuesday evening Youth Leadership Training sessions at Operation Shoestring will continue Tuesady November 2, 2010 with a discussion on Smoking Myths & Realities & Smoking Biofeedback & Self-Assessment for the youth leadership. Tuesday’s session will again be lead by Lead Trainer and Motivator, Asinia Lukata Chikuyu. Over 27 middle and high students are expected to continue the high energy mentally stimulating leadership development training exercises and activities. 

The schedule for the balance of the calendar year includes: 

Date Discussion Topic

November 2^nd Smoking Myths & Realities & Smoking Biofeedback & Self-Assessment

November 16^th Alcohol & Marijuana -- Myths & Realities & Self-Assessment

December 7^th Introduction to Kwanza - viewing of movie "The Black Candle" & Team Building Exercises

December 21^st Attend Kwanzaa Celebration for Cultural Enrichment at the Medgar Evers Community Center - - 3159 Edwards Avenue Jackson, MS

 The training sessions/seminars are free and provides guidance to the youth, 12-18, for building their capacity for community leadership and service. Parents can enroll their child in this project by contacting Ada Robinson (601.353.3663) or Brotha A. Lukata (601.957.2969). 

This leadership training project is intended to provide the students with the skills necessary to become viable contributors to a higher quality of life for themselves and their community. Utilizing personal introspections, group training sessions and edu-tainment based excursions, the project is preparing the participants for community leadership and service. Educational excursions to the Black & Blue Civil War Re-enactment in Natchez, Miss., the Annual Edmund Pettus Bridge Crossing Jubilee, Selma, AL., and the Spiritual Pilgrimage to the Mississippi Delta adds flavor to the learning that happens through this project, which is all about "Changing Attitudes; Increasing Aptitudes ...Elevating Altitudes".