The Youth Empowerment Seminar or The YES Program, is a workshop that teaches teenagers how to accept themselves and other people, handle all situations in life, make them responsible and efficient and tackles problems such as depression, lack of confidence, loneliness and lack of concentration.
YES workshop's youth are bombarded by a variety of stresses such as depression, violence, peer and academic pressure, overloaded schedules, drugs and urbanized aggressive environments. YES provides a practical, lasting solution to these challenges by addressing such pressures head on.
The workshops use challenging, interactive processes and group discussions, guiding students to identify human values and foster leadership skills such as acceptance of diversity, courage, respect, trust and selfless giving. Students are challenged to go beyond a limited perspective of life and to consider the world at large with all its social, racial, ethnic and religious diversity.
Students are also taught powerful breathing techniques that release emotional and physical stress and help foster greater emotional stability, mental clarity, creativity, concentration, critical thinking and physical relaxation. Students develop the ability to respond calmly and effectively in highly stressful situations with a heightened degree of confidence and self-esteem.
Gone are the days when yoga and meditation were considered activities for the middle aged and old generation. Today, more and more youngsters are enrolling in the YES Program to get a grip on their lives.