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CEF YouthWise

CEF YouthWise is a program devoted to helping our youth become creative leaders of tomorrow. Available to kids from 7-17, YouthWise is a fun, highly experiential workshop that builds life-long learning skills. And best of all, children makelasting friendships with other kids from around the world.

YouthWise is a program devoted to helping our youth become creative leaders of tomorrow. Available to kids from 7-17, YouthWise is a fun, highly experiential workshop that builds life-long learning skills. And best of all, children make lasting friendships with other kids from around the world.

YouthWise for Teens:

This year will include an exciting real-world challenge, collaborate to solve the challenge, and then present a viable solution. Teens will learn and apply the Creative Problem Solving (CPS) process. Over the course of the workshop, teens will work together to:

  • ·  Discover their own thinking style preference based on the Four-Sight™ Breakthrough Thinking Profile
  • ·  Learn proven and new innovation tools and techniques
  • ·  Frame challenges in broader ways to open up thinking
  • ·  Refine their solutions by prototyping: building rough models using clay/paper or doing skits
  • ·  Polish their presentation skills with drama coaching
  • ·  And finally, present their final solution!

Teens will also enjoy an afternoon doing Facilitation through the Arts – a time to explore their creativity using art, music, and improv. Advanced Teens will receive additional coaching to hone their CPS skills and meet innovation experts and practitioners.

YouthWise for 7-12 year olds:

Younger kids will explore the excitement of creative thinking and the thrill of solving challenges in a highly experiential format. After learning more about their individual Smarts (based on Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences), kids will actively:

  • ·  Learn the foundation skills of the Creative Problem Solving process through games, songs, and other fun techniques 
  • ·  Learn how to actively separate divergent and convergent thinking skills 
  • ·  Focus on a global theme through literature and heroes 
  • ·  Explore musical smarts with guest musicians 
  • ·  Express themselves through dramatic skits and improv 
  • ·  Create art – painting, modeling, and more 
  • ·  Do kinesthetic exercises to focus their creativity 
  • ·  Model how to improve communication using their smarts 
  • ·  Laugh and play as they learn


YouthWise Team

Suzie Nussel, Jane Goldwasser, Renee Paser-Paull, Mimi Fleck, Ashley DaSilva, Gabrielle Holt, Beth Slazak and Jason Hall.