"Life Unleashed" at Chardon Middle School

January 27, 2023

Life Unleashed, in its pilot year at Chardon Middle School, is a leadership program customized for the school's 7th-grade students.

Overseen by the school’s guidance department, the Life Unleashed workshop series is led by the program’s founder and president, Jonathan Schulz, and generously funded, in part, by non-profit Chardon Schools Foundation. (Thank you CSF!)

The workshop series, which debuted at CMS this fall, utilizes an interactive format to encourage student engagement and hands-on learning.

Through the in-school workshops, students discuss, learn and practice leadership skills, with an ultimate goal of empowering students to implement those skills at school and in their community.

During the fall session, students were asked to identify leadership traits; brainstorm examples of familiar leaders; and engage in a team-building puzzle without verbal conversation, motivating students to flex their non-verbal communication skills.

The latest Life Unleashed installment was held Jan. 19-20 with a primary focus on communication, including how to build basic communication skills such as speaking and active listening.

Students discussed how effective communication is important to their daily lives now and will be in the future; and participated in team-building exercises, including the practice of both verbal and non-verbal communication skills through role-playing and other group activities.

A final Life Unleashed workshop, for which planning is underway, will be held in the spring.

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