Infinite Possibilities: I Believe in ME! Program Outline
I Believe in ME! is a youth empowerment program designed to share the concepts behind living more consciously and deliberately to create the life that one wants. The intention of this program is to show youth how powerful they are and that if they can use their imagination, believe in themselves, and follow a few simple steps every day, life can be fun, less stressful and enjoyable. Positive thoughts generate positive results!
The objectives of the program are to show that:
For youth this includes creating more:
These ideals evolve through exploring and expanding on an understanding of the importance of choosing more selectively and with greater awareness one’s:
Session #1 - Introduction Benefit – Get to know each other, the purpose of the program, the mutual agreements, and what to expect from the trainer and the program itself. Session #2 - Thoughts Become Things Benefit – To establish an understanding of the importance of choice in everything that one does in life beginning with what one thinks about. Session #3 – Meditation and Visualizations Benefit – To provide an introduction to the concepts of meditation and visualizations to increase awareness of one’s own mind and its’ ability to shift one’s life experience through intention. Session #4 – Beliefs Benefit – To understand that this is where many of our thoughts and emotions come from and that we have the ability to shift to beliefs that are more agreeable to achieving our success in whatever area we choose. Session #5 – Empowering Beliefs Benefit – To understand that limiting beliefs are what often hold us back and show how easy it is to shift them into beliefs that work for us in achieving our goals and dreams. Session #6 – Emotions Benefit – Learning the importance of honoring our emotions as life’s feedback system but also to show our ability to shift them to ones that feel better when we are ready to move on. This includes understanding that we have the ability to choose the emotions that we want in life whenever we like as opposed to waiting for life to provide circumstances for us to react to. Session #7 – Mandalas Benefit – To have a quiet reflective experience with a form of art that shows connection and creates a sense of calm. Acknowledge the importance of art therapy as a choice for managing one’s own emotions. Session #8 – Dreams, Goals and Taking Action Benefit – To show the importance of having dreams, designing goals, and following through with baby steps each day towards achievement. Session #9 – Vision Boards and Community Puzzle Benefit – Creation of a physical object that becomes a daily reminder of one’s dreams, or a visual of how important each individual is as a part of a whole provides participants more fun and relaxed opportunity for learning and development of these concepts. Session #10 – Graduation Party Benefit – Celebration is an important part of accomplishment, empowerment and having fun! I Believe in Me! is a program that promotes life long learning by encouraging youth to develop the following traits:
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Mike Dooley and Rebecca Psigoda
I Believe In ME! was developed by Rebecca Psigoda and adapted from Mike Dooley’s adult empowerment program entitled “Infinite Possibilities The Art of Changing Your Life”. Click here to learn more about the adult program.
Mike Dooley is the best selling author of several books including “Infinite Possibilities The Art of Living Your Dreams” and was featured in the movie “The Secret”. He is also the creator of “Notes from the Universe” Rebecca Psigoda is a certified Infinite Possibilities trainer . In the summer of 2015, she developed the IBIM program and works with students from The Dowd Education Center – an educational facility under the umbrella of The Homeless Families Foundation in Columbus, OH. Currently, there are certified trainers in 4 countries around the world and growing. 
Each session of this unique playshop is 1/3 new material, 1/3 music, games, videos and exercises and 1/3 group discussion. And there might be some dancing! 
Mike Dooley and myself at the Infinite Possibilities Train the Trainer program
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