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Training System

Teaches Positive Choices
for Building Productive, Successful Lives

A positive living skills training system, Building a Successful Life, teaches success skills to last a lifetime. Its success-building strategies designed in a lively format for teens on up, are ideal for multiple settings—schools, clubs, after-school programs, recreation departments, alternative education, corrections, vocational education and employment centers. This comprehensive program provides the blueprints for choosing the attitudes and actions to produce positive results.

Building a Successful Life includes eight training units:

• It’s Your Choice! Exploring Your World of Options

• Building Respect=Being Responsible

• Following the Blueprint for Success

• Exploring Values: Mapping Directions for Your Life

• Your Self-Image: Creating a Positive Reflection (2-parts)

• The Power of Beliefs and Winning Attitudes (2-parts)

This positive living skills system is a turnkey training program providing teachers, counselors, leaders and trainers with everything they need to present active and engaging sessions. Each unit contains a scripted Training Guide, Activity Masters with Activity Guides, Positive Power Thoughts, Discussion Topics, illustrated, reproducible NoteKeepers reinforcing program concepts and a poster. The units are assembled in a large binder for easy reference and handy storage.

“Very upbeat!! This program has been polished and shines—just right for teens and young adults. The content is excellent and the organization and integration of concepts is superb!” says educational psychologist, Jay Stratoudakis, Ph.D., a high school teacher in Vienna, VA.

Anita Smith, Vice President of the Institute for Youth Development, Sterling, VA says, “Building a Successful Life addresses key issues that today’s teens grapple with daily. The sessions help youth identify their own attitudes, beliefs and behavior patterns; identify choices and develop strategies for change and success. This invaluable and effective tool will lead to successful outcomes for youth.”

Positive living skills pave the way to successful living. By learning ways to build self-respect, strengthen success-creating qualities, develop personal responsibility, and make choices to create positive results, participants gain valuable tools for self-mastery. Modeling the attitudes and actions for achieving productive and empowering results is transforming and strengthens vital inner resources critical for achieving success.

Participants learn how specific attitudes and actions produce successful outcomes. They gain the success-building tools for:

• Developing winning attitudes

• Building self-respect and good character

• Cultivating positive relationships

• Making positive choices to produce desirable outcomes

• Overcoming negative or adverse experiences

• Making desirable changes

• Choosing and achieving goals

• Creating a productive and satisfying life

• Understanding the connection between their choices and consequences

Dynamic Options for Success, a communications and training firm, in Oakton, VA, is dedicated to creating compelling strategies for successful outcomes. Sandra Strauss, president of Dynamic Options and author of Building a Successful Life says “These training materials are specially designed to give budget-conscious nonprofits valuable resources for teaching life-changing, success-enhancing concepts for today’s teens. These messages are often not reaching teens, yet are so critical for their success.” The materials are adaptable to a wide number of settings. Every session reinforces success-building principles for creating productive, responsible and fulfilling lives.