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About the programme
About the programme
Now & Next Quest is a two-day learning programme for youth aged 15-21, designed to provide them positive support and help them craft their life vision.
Now & Next Quest is a two-day learning programme for youth aged 15-21, designed to provide them positive support and help them craft their life vision.
It is a Youth and Adult Leadership Development evidence-based program, which activates choice and control by improving positive learning and life outcomes. Co-designed with participants to activate self determination, it supports them to uncover their strengths and test their emerging capacities through planning. The program spans across a flexible number of sessions for 12 hours and follow up to evaluate goals achieved.
It is a Youth and Adult Leadership Development evidence-based program, which activates choice and control by improving positive learning and life outcomes. Co-designed with participants to activate self determination, it supports them to uncover their strengths and test their emerging capacities through planning. The program spans across a flexible number of sessions for 12 hours and follow up to evaluate goals achieved.
The programme engages young people in their life planning to increase positive learning and life outcomes. It coaches them to:
Identify their unique strengths and how they come into play in their lives.
Co-design their planning to formulate a personal vision that inspires them
Develop their vision into goals.
Unpack goals into smaller achievable steps to build their confidence in goal setting and goal achieving.
Who is the program suitable for?
Who is the program suitable for?
Youth from ages 15 to 21 seeking positive support and guidance in formulating a life vision.
Youth with ASD/neurodiversity, cognitive/learning disabilities and ADHD.
The programme is not yet suitable for youth with visual and hearing impairment - it is being adapted towards future (2025) enrolments.
What will participants learn?
What will participants learn?
Participants will:
Develop knowledge and experience about the visioning and planning process and its connection to wellbeing. The output is an inspirational vision board filled with goals. Participants prioritise one long-term goal for each category and learn to implement strategies to achieve them.
Unpack their goals from long to short-term, experiment completing them by taking small achievable steps by utilising our bespoke ‘Goal 2 Action’ tool and building capacity to take control of their own progress.
Participants' Psychological Outcomes
Participants' Psychological Outcomes
This graph shows the statistically significant increases in the outcome factors Empowerment, Hope, Wellbeing and Life Satisfaction.
Click here for more program results.
How it works?
How it works?
A. Identifying personal character strengths
A. Identifying personal character strengths
Now & Next Youth starts with a Pictability session.
Now & Next coaches participants to:
Identify their unique strengths and how they come into play in their lives
Co-design their planning to formulate a personal vision that inspires them
Develop their vision into goals
Embed their strengths into working on their goals - harness different strengths for different goals.
Unpack goals into smaller achievable steps to build their confidence in goal setting and goal achieving
Grow their voice to enable them to make positive choices in planning their future
Nurture their inner leader through contributing meaningfully to their communities.
Participants design a journey backpack
Participants design a journey backpack
Based on the research from University of Pennsylvania Prof. Martin Seligman who identified the different strengths that make each of us unique, participants get a chance to create their individual strength profile. They peel off (reusable) stickers from their base and put them on their backpack for their journey.
B. Formulating a Compelling Long Term Vision
B. Formulating a Compelling Long Term Vision
Brainstorming
Brainstorming
Participants look at the goal cards and choose the ones that they consider personal goals.
Vision Board
Vision Board
Participants place their goals on their Vision Board according to level of importance of the goal and a time-frame.
C. Setting and unpacking short term goals
C. Setting and unpacking short term goals
Short Term Action Board
Short Term Action Board
Participants prioritise two goals that they want to start working on. They can use this board or design their own to build confidence in goal setting. Reflecting about each chosen goal, they think about which of their strengths they can use to achieve it.
Goal to Action
Goal to Action
Participants can use our bespoke Goal to Action tool or design their own to unpack goals into small, achievable steps. The Signature strengths that they identify earlier go into the left column to start achieving their goals from a strength perspective.
My Goal Passport
My Goal Passport
Our co-design participants integrated Simon Duffy's Keys To Citizenship as a quick review process in the form of a 'goal passport'.
Learning about what makes a good life
Learning about what makes a good life
Participants learn about the different elements that make up a good life according to Duffy's model. They get a chance to reflect on stories and think about specific examples that relate to their lives.
D. Achieving goals in all areas of life that matter
D. Achieving goals in all areas of life that matter
Ensure all meaningful areas of life are covered
Ensure all meaningful areas of life are covered
As participants work on their goals, they enter achievements in their Goal Passport. This ensures that they are well connected with the Keys to Citizenship model. They may decide to concentrate on certain of the Keys at first, and all achievements and world views are supported. What participants learn is that there are several crucial areas that need to be considered and that they can choose goals in each at their own pace and keep tabs on areas of life that need addressing.
The process supports participants designing their personal outcome categories and measures.
E. Follow up after the planning sessions
E. Follow up after the planning sessions
Taking action
Taking action
Action boards are magnetised and most participants choose to display them on their fridge so they can be reminded of their commitments.
Celebrate achievements
Celebrate achievements
Goals achieved are celebrated and new goals are formulated to keep the momentum going.
Feedback from participants
Feedback from participants
Participants in action
Participants in action
"The pictures and the stories we shared gave me the confidence to share these in other places, like with my friends and family" - [Participant]
"I was surprised with the information that came from [person I support], some of it was completely new to me!" - [Participant's support person]
"i was taken aback by how many ideas my daughter had about future directions for her life... these had never come up in family conversations before, but my daughter said that this creative process, which includes expanding on ideas from the images she chose, gave her lots more new directions to explore" - [Participant's father]
Youth Quest Podcast
Youth Quest Podcast
Our friends at Google produced a podcast explaining why Youth Quest is such a different and engaging program for youth taking them through gamified sessions to create a future that inspires them and develop collective leadership.
This programme is funded in New Zealand by the Ministry of Youth Development, in British Columbia by Kinsight Society and in Albania by Inclusion International
Now & Next Quest for
Youth and Adults
Now & Next Quest for
Youth and Adults
For more information on Now & Next Youth, please click here or contact Dr. Annick Janson: annick@egl.ac.nz
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