Within each of us there is a light that drives us, fuels us, and connects us to the world. There has always been a drumming in my heart, pushing me toward releasing my light into the world. For years I lived in fear; attached to the belief that I was not enough, forcing my light to hide inside. When I began working in the non-profit sector I saw a similar light in the youth that I was facilitating. I began to build curriculum and programing to cultivate this light inside each of them. Through no intention of my own, my own light began to shine. As my outer shell cracked, releasing the falsities that I showed the world, my light began to escape, inspiring others to do the same. When I began to see the power I held, and began cultivating a passion for transforming others through leadership and meaningful engagement, I began to realize the drumming in my heart was this passion growing inside of me. It is this passion that brings me to the MAOL program at Lewis University. I want to cultivate my leadership and coaching skills to transform and ignite participants, co-workers, and the community around me. …show more content…
My role in the many conversations was to ignite passion, and to help draw out their heart’s connections. Cultivating programs to inspire change has been the center of my work for the past five years, and inviting youth into the conversation proved to be extremely rewarding and difficult. Many of the participates did not know their role in the world or who they wanted to be. Transforming the program became about developing the light of participants, and helping them shed the stories that were no longer serving