What is Developing Capable Young People?

Developing Capable Young People is an evidence-based initiative with a successful track record spanning over 20 years. The program, created by Dr. Stephen Glenn, was originally designed to empower parents of high-risk children, fostering resilience and capability in their lives. This program is based on an extensive growing body of research that demonstrates the “Significant Seven”, which are the following three perceptions and four skills: perceptions of personal capability, perceptions of personal significance, perceptions of personal influence, intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills, systemic skills, and judgement skills.

What are the Session Topics?

Changing Relationships

• Identify factors in modern society and lifestyles that are creating new challenges
• Develop an understanding of the seven resources of exceptionally capable people

Working with Perception

• Develop an understanding of the critical role perception plays in attitude, motivation and behavior
• Learn how to use 5 keys to working effectively with people’s perceptions

Help People See Themselves as Capable

• Learn how to avoid the five barriers to healthy relationships
• Learn how to implement the five builders to healthy relationships

Help People See Themselves as Significant

• Identify the greatest human need
• Identify three conditions necessary to meet the greatest human need

Help People See Themselves as Having Influence

• Identify conditions in our current lifestyle that encourage an External Locus of Control
• Learn behaviors that foster an Internal Locus of Control

Develop Self-Discipline

• Recognize approaches that discourage self-assessment, self-control, and self-discipline
• Teach the relationship between feelings, actions and results
• Structure the environment to teach the difference between wants and needs

Develop Skills to Work With Others

• Conceptualize the skills needed to interact effectively with others
• Model/teach dialogue as the basis of human interaction

Develop Responsibility

• Learn to avoid approaches that encourage irresponsibility
• Convey unqualified acceptance, love or respect
• Learn to teach responsibility through logical consequences and results

Develop Judgment

• Learn strategies that encourage the development of judgmental skills
• Provide role-taking experiences
• Apply the process of “Social Inoculation” to behavioral health problems in young people

Maintain Personal Progress

• Share ideas and strategies you have learned and how you will apply them to specific solutions
• Assess personal progress
• Maintain family, school and/or program cohesiveness
• Share the process with significant others

(The 4-week course will cover Help People See Themselves as Capable, Help People See Themselves as Significant, Develop Self-Discipline, and Develop Responsibility.)