Public speaking doesn't have to be terrifying. Whether you are presenting a group project, running for student council, or prepping for future job interviews, this hands-on workshop will help you find your voice, build serious confidence, and deliver your ideas like a pro. Any student looking to crush presentation anxiety, level up their group project skills, and communicate with confidence—no prior experience needed!

What You'll Gain

• Build Leadership Habits & Skills: Learn simple tricks for strong body language, dynamic vocal control, and storytelling so you can speak with authority and get people to listen.

• Build Positive Relationships Within the Team: Master group communication to make team projects painless, encourage your classmates, and build trust every time you speak.

• Build Sustainable Common Processes: Get reusable presentation frameworks, slide structures, and practice routines that make preparing for any future speech quick and stress-free.

• Improve Agility & Big-Picture Thinking: Learn how to handle unexpected questions on the fly, pivot quickly when things don't go as planned, and connect your points to the bigger message.

The 'Youth Mental Health & Wellness' workshop is an insightful session designed for parents & teachers to better understand mental health struggles from the perspectives of today's youth. Designed with interactive activities confronting mental health, effective strategies to regulate mental health, and resources for mental health support, this workshop aims to ease the stigma around youth mental health.

When school stress starts to feel like too much, it can be hard for teens and parents to know what will actually help. This interactive workshop will explore what burnout looks like, how to recognize when a student has moved beyond everyday stress, and why pushing harder is not always the answer. Teens and parents will leave with practical, realistic tools for helping students slow down, recover, reconnect, and begin moving forward with more support and less pressure.

Using storytelling, youth voice, small-group activities, peer discussion, and real-life scenarios, Winston creates a welcoming environment where students can talk about challenges affecting their health and their communities. Students explore mental and emotional wellness, bullying prevention, healthy relationships, substance-use prevention, positive decision-making, stress management, self-care, and help-seeking.

A central focus of the workshop is the Trusted Messenger approach—helping young people recognize that positive information is often most powerful when it comes from people they know, relate to, and trust. Students identify trusted adults and peers in their lives while learning how they can become positive messengers themselves by sharing accurate health information, modeling healthy behaviors, supporting friends, and connecting peers to appropriate adults and community resources.

The workshop will leave the workshop better prepared to:

• Recognize healthy and unhealthy choices and influences.

• Identify trusted adults, mentors, and community resources.

• Practice positive coping, communication, and decision-making skills.

• Understand the risks associated with substance use and other harmful behaviors.

• Respond constructively to bullying, peer pressure, and stressful situations.

• Support peers without taking on the role of a counselor or health professional.

• Use their voices as Trusted Messengers to promote healthier, safer, and more connected schools and communities.