May 2014 Disney Trip!

During May 4-8, students who normally volunteer in the school were given the opportunity to go to a trip to Disneyland in order to be a part of leadership workshops called the "Disneyland Youth Education Series". Throughout the 4 days and nights, the "SHS Disney Crew" were taught how to be strong, caring leaders and were put into the shoes of Walt Disney himself who faced constant adversity and challenges while building his wildly-loved magical kingdom.

The first workshop that students went through talked about the Four C's of being a leader - Curiosity, Confidence, Courage and Constancy. Throughout a series of activities and deeply thought-out games, the students were taught how each trait is vital in life and in any task they are in. In this workshop, students were asked to talk about their traits, what their dreams were and were told the story of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and how Walt Disney lost him and much of his hard work.

From the first workshop alone, students were already saying they felt changed.

The next workshop that took place focused on confidence and keeping your dreams. Involving pylons, a rope treehouse area and a few moments of honesty, students were taught that for all the doubts they worried about and all the negative traits they saw in themselves, there were a billion other happier things that countered them. Here, students learned that in realizing that there was a lot of good rather than bad in them, they could accomplish anything.

As a student that took part in this program, I still feel absolutely honoured and blessed that I could go. This workshop was short, but long enough and meaningful enough to really change me as a person. By being in this, I became much more confident and happier than I can even remember.

I'm sure many other kids feel the same and would love to talk about their stories.

Thankfully, there's a blog (made by the lovely Mrs. Becker) about our trip!

http://sullitravels.blogspot.ca/

Have any questions about the trip? Have you done a program like this before? Let us know in the comments!