Jo.Co Program
Conscious Youth
Helping you develop the new generation of conscious young leaders.
Are you a business company who wants to empower your youth collaborators to become the new generation of leaders, able to drive your organisation to thrive in a conscious way?
Are you a non-profit organisation willing to invest in youth leadership skills necessary to address our shared global challenges?
Are you an institution or individual who wants to sponsor a fellowship to a young person willing to create a purposeful and meaningful life?
Collaborate with SERES and AMARNA Vida to help young people feel empowered in a way they can inspire and mobilise themselves and others towards creating purpose-driven organisations and communities, focusing on addressing economic, social, and environmental challenges, in an increasingly complex world.
The Jo.Co Program is a 10-month program that supports the development of a new generation of conscious young leaders.
The program is designed to develop the mindset, insights, skills, and network needed for young people to become leaders that are deeply connected with themselves, others, and the whole, being able to take conscious and courageous actions based on their purpose which involves creating a positive impact in the world.
Our intensive program brings together trainers, mentors, and facilitators to determine young change-makers to build conscious leadership skills.
Outputs
At the end of the program young leaders will:
Develop a better understanding of their purpose, mission, and what they want to achieve in life, and the internal tools (their strengths) to achieve it.
Be able to take more assertive action towards their goals and know how to create an impact, efficiently and meaningfully, in their own lives, the lives of their communities, and even on humanity as a whole.
Develop a sense of interconnectedness and deep appreciation to the value of networks, due to the relationships established among each other, their mentors, their trainers, and facilitators.
Program Structure
The program lasts for 10 months and is divided into four main sections:
Online training
Young people will learn about the key ingredients that will support their capacity to consciously lead. They will be inspired to embrace a journey of personal discovery, where they are going to acknowledge their purpose, mission, values, and talents.
They are also going to learn the skills that are needed to be citizens that transform their own realities and those of their environment, such as emotional intelligence, understanding conflicts as opportunities, and assertive communication.
More than learning about conscious leadership, young people will have the opportunity to apply what they learn to authentic and meaningful activities.
Collaborative Projects
Young people will have the opportunity to learn leadership by doing leadership. By recognising that we are actors within an ecosystem, young people will have the opportunity for ‘real world’ application of skills, by creating projects that can be applied in their organisations and communities.
They will discover new approaches and frameworks in which they can develop their projects and the impact they wish to make. Also, they will have the opportunity to share their projects and receive feedback from their peers.
Mentoring
Young people will receive one-on-one mentorship, by a professional mentor who will provide them with inspiration, guidance, tools, as well as good questions to define their personal and professional life and will accompany them to establish concrete actions and goals.
At the end of the mentorship program, young people will have the confidence in their purpose, mission, and values that drive them and clarity on how to connect their purpose with the evolution they want to see in their organisations, communities, and in the world.
Bootcamp
Participants who successfully complete the first three sections of the program will be able to participate in the 4-day in-person Bootcamp where they will be able to strengthen more skills and deepen the relationships with their peers, trainers, and facilitators.
Program Content
Young people will have the opportunity to learn more about themselves, the world, and their role in it. They will dive deep into their identity, purpose, values, strengths, talents. They will acknowledge how they can have a positive and meaningful impact in their organisations, communities, and the world.
They will also develop a deeper understanding of concrete skills and behaviours that will make them conscious leaders, such as emotional intelligence skills.
Furthermore, they will also explore assertive communication skills, public speaking, asset-based community development, conducting root cause analysis, developing projects from scratch, and pitching their ideas.
Duration
The program lasts for 10 months and is divided into four main sections:
Online Training Mentoring Collaborative Projects Bootcamp
3 months that requires 90 minutes 3 months that requires 60 minutes 3 months that requires 90 minutes 4 days
of dedication per week. of dedication per week. of dedication per week.
Beneficiaries
Young people aged between 18-30 years old who:
are willing to develop their leadership skills, in order help their organisation to be more resilient, sustainable, and even profitable, aiming to create a self-regulating organisational ecosystem that contributes to the natural evolution of the world;
care deeply about the world and want to make the difference in the world by creating projects that solve global challenges;
Partners
Business organisations that want to invest in their young employees’, so that they can feel more inspired, motivated, and compromise with their work.
Non-profit organisations who support youth development and are willing to invest in their leadership skills, so that they can leave a positive legacy in the world.
Institutions or individuals who want to sponsor fellowships to young citizens, willing to create a more purposeful and meaningful life.
Founders and Main Facilitators
SERES
SERES is an internationally award-winning Guatemalan NGO that has been working since 2009 with marginalized communities in Guatemala and El Salvador to educate and engage youth in the design and implementation of community-led sustainable development projects.
Amarna Vida
AMARNA Academy is a lean organisation focused on mission-critical training that has a direct impact on the individual’s wholeness and on the business organisation's overall performance. It is the learning branch of AMARNA Vida’s social enterprise1, which offers programs for the transformation and evolution of individuals so that they can be more healthy, balanced, resilient, conscious, and leaders of their own life.
Do you want to give a young person the opportunity to create change?
Join us as a program sponsor or local partner
by writing us at jocoprogram@seres.org