What We Do

A thought-provoking, often inspiring self-help book, offering children/YA a tool for exploring their future. A FINALIST and highly recommended!

Creatively written and designed, this offers children (and possibly even adults) a “method” for thinking about their aspirations. There’s space for writing, and even the odd inspiring story. I felt this book was a little different in so much as books of this nature tend to be for adults. Very welcome in my classroom.

Thinking critically is so vital for children, particularly in this internet “fake news” world we live in. Books of this nature help children to do just that. If you happen to be looking for “purpose” this well-designed, accessibly-written book might help you.

Liked it. I thought it was (a) interesting (b) easy to understand and (c) made me think about what I want to be.

I liked the way the book looked. It’s not difficult to follow it and it is (sort of) inspiring. A good book if you want to think about the future.

Good for middle graders, but I expect YAs will get the most out of it.

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I loved the CDP Coach Training. Honest, I came in skeptical as so much in this space is not particularly useful. People like to get together to talk; the critical factor is do they leave able to use what they learned in their own life? I was thrilled to find that the CDP coach training focuses fully on how people can apply it in their own lives and work.

Even with people who might be on the other side of the political spectrum, or see an issue differently from us, [these online Community Conversations] help us find the underlying truth. I think we need more conversations where we realize how much more we have in common than different, but also integrating our differences well to actually work together. That template was really helpful through the discussion agreements, and also just general the discussion itself, it’s super stimulating. I think [a fellow participant] had said that it provided more questions than answers and I really enjoyed that as well because it helps us see the complexity of the topic, but also moves us in a direction where, you know, we see progress and solutions to problems.

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