Jumpstart is a course for young leader
which the Cornerstone Veritas team hosted at the Cornerstone Head Office. It was open to anyone who wanted to attend and
took place from February 19th to 21th. This course was
facilitated by Anthony Elliot of Youth With a Mission and his team of 3 others.
It was attended by all the Cornerstone Veritas
interns and the staff, as well as a number of other guests.
According to Anthony, he described this
course as a personal potential discovery experience. He used a Mr. bean Clip to
illustrate how a fainting man was jumped to life using an electric shock. He
further explained that we may possess abilities, skills and talents but that we
have not received the Jumpstart (knowledge)
we need to use them. We need to
be inspired and encouraged to maximize our potential and use what we have to
live purposeful and fulfilled lives. This is what the Jumpstart course is
about.
Anthony explained
that when we are still young, it is very difficult to know what we want for our
lives. This specifically means that we
don’t have a clear set of goals and a personal vision. Young people struggle to
achieve goals because they lack clarity and direction. However, as we grow older we should work hard
to clarify our personal vision and goals for our lives. He used a dart game
illustration his point about age. 3
people stood in a line; the youngest in the back, the next in age was in the
middle and the oldest was closest to the dart board. The youngest threw his dirt from far away,
it did not get very close to the bullseye. But the oldest, who was nearest to
the board, hit the target. The explanation was that as we get older, we gain a
clearer understanding of what our life goals and vision should be.
Identification
of our gifts and talents:
This course also
enables people to thoroughly evaluate and discover their talents and gifts.
Anthony took us through an exercise that considered the talents and gift of our
family members, so that we could see where we have come from and what we may
have gained from our family. In the end we learned that our gifts and talents can
originate from those of our family members.
We also took a
series of long tests, during which we had to decide how we would behave in
certain situations, and which words best describes who we are. These tests helped us to discover our
physical abilities, metal capacity, and spiritual gifting. We also played a game where we had to move
based on the answers to different questions, this helped us to get an idea of
where we fall in the DISC personality test.
Defining your ideal motivational environment:
Jumpstart also defines the different
working environments that exist and also describes the different individual
characteristic which make up our personality types. It then combines and understand of work
environment and personality to help people learn their ideal motivational
environment.
Mission
and Vision Statements:
Finally, the course helped each participant
to use all of the information they had collected about themselves to write
their personal mission and vision statement.
Each person had the chance to share creatively about their mission and
vision statement, as well as create goals which will help them achieve what
they have set out to do. It was a great
time to learn about how everyone is different, and were designed uniquely for a
specific purpose.
Overall, Jumpstart was a great
success. To enjoy time together, on the
Wednesday during the program Noelle made us all dinner at Cornerstone and we
played games. It was a great time of laughter
and fun.
The whole Cornerstone Veritas team, as well
as our guests, enjoyed the program and learned a lot from it. We look forward to running it again next
year.
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| Jumpstart was great for everyone who attended! |
