"The greatest contribution you can make to the world is to
grow in self-awareness, self-realization, and the power
to manifest your own heartfelt dreams and desires.
The next greatest thing you can do is to help others do the same."
~Jack Canfield
grow in self-awareness, self-realization, and the power
to manifest your own heartfelt dreams and desires.
The next greatest thing you can do is to help others do the same."
~Jack Canfield
About Jack CanfieldJack Canfield began his career a high school classroom in inner city Chicago. While struggling to get his students engaged in learning, Jack found that the power of story help him connect with his students and ignite their spark for learning. This experience was the inspiration behind the world famous Chicken Soup for the Soul series and his Building Self Esteem in the Classroom teacher's guide.
Jack Canfield has been teaching the principles outlined in his book, Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be, to adults interested in personal development, leadership development and business success. The success principles work is a compilation of over thirty years of research, experience and powerful content including activities, strategies, exercises, tools and techniques designed to build self esteem and self advocacy, manage stress, overcome limiting beliefs, process emotions, expand creativity and harness the power of the brain and the heart to create a life of passion, purpose and success, however we choose to define it. The experiential nature of the work promotes connection with self and others while creating an environment that is safe, supportive and conducive to learning and growing. In addition, this powerful work provides participants with the foundation necessary to successfully pursue entrepreneurial businesses and collaborations and increase joy and happiness in life. Over the years of teaching and coaching around the success principles, Jack has seen how adverse childhood experiences can negatively affect self esteem and create blocks that show up later in life and impede success. Using simple yet effective tools, Jack leads his students beyond their blocks so they can effectively incorporate basic success principles to create their best life. An educator at heart and dedicated to facilitating the expansion of human potential, Jack has always held the vision that he would love to get back to the classroom and bring the success principles he teaches to young people. And he has decided that it's time to do just that. To that end, Jack has put together a task force of his certified success principles trainers and coaches to work with experts in social emotional learning and school safety to create an evidence based high school and college curriculum. Ultimately, the Pathways to Success for Youth Project will result in a comprehensive menu of products that can be easily distributed and implemented across the US in the form of classroom curriculum, professional development for teachers, administrators and youth service workers. In addition, as we move forward we are evaluating additional programming to support the development of school, work and community environments that promote connection and safety as well as success. To learn more about the impact of Jack's work in young people, click here to read our blog. |
Patty Aubery, President of The Canfield Training Group interviews members of the Pathways to Success for Youth Team about the impact of this work on young people.
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About Our Project Manager
Trish Jacobson serves as the Pathways to Success for Youth team leader. She is a teen expert, teacher, coach, mentor, best selling author and certified Canfield Success Principles trainer who has worked with teens, young adults and youth service professionals in academic, health care and community settings for over twenty years.
Over the years of working with young people Trish has noticed that low self esteem, lack of connection to self and others, limiting beliefs about what's possible and lack of a vision for the future seem to be related to low self esteem and decreased engagement in academic and social settings as well as in the workplace ... all of which is linked to engagement and risk behavior.
Current research around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) indicates that there is a strong, graded relationship to numerous health, social, and behavioral problems throughout their lifespan, including substance use disorders. Furthermore, many problems related to ACEs tend to be comorbid, or co-occurring.[7]
When Trish was first introduced to Jack Canfield's Success Principles work at a live event in August 2010, she was at a crossroads and considering a career change. But after the first day of the event, instead of focusing on her own future, she found herself so inspired by the content and was so excited about the impact it would have on her middle and high school students that she went back to her hotel room and began enthusiastically incorporating the success principles into the health curriculum and peer education program she was already teaching to high school and middle school students and into most all the work she did with youth service professionals.
She learned simple yet powerful heart-centered tools that resulted in a deepened connection to self and others, supported self advocacy and created a classroom culture of personal responsibility, collaboration, respect and mutual support while providing students with some basic success principles.
Trisha's inspired enthusiasm continued for the entire seven days of the event as she witnessed amazing transformation in herself and the other participants that came from all over the world to train with Jack. She knew deep down in her heart and soul that she was onto something.
"Why aren't we teaching these principles to our young people?", Trish wondered as she went through the training. Her head spun with possibilities of developing a full course curriculum, freshman transition program, student leadership retreats, heart centered and empowering workshops to teach and promote connection and positive school culture to replace "anti-bullying" assemblies and professional development workshops for teachers. By the end of the week Trisha had a vision to work to bring this work to schools across the country. She shared the vision with Jack who encouraged her to move forward and expressed his intention to join her down the line.
When Trish returned to the classroom after BTS, she began!
Trish was honored when Jack asked her to lead his success principles legacy project and partner with key stakeholders in school safety, cultural values, leadership and social emotional learning.
The goal is to create both live and online curriculum materials and professional development programs that will be readily available and easy to implement and replicate in schools and communities across the country.
Here's what Trish says about the Pathways to Success for Youth Project:
Over the years of working with young people Trish has noticed that low self esteem, lack of connection to self and others, limiting beliefs about what's possible and lack of a vision for the future seem to be related to low self esteem and decreased engagement in academic and social settings as well as in the workplace ... all of which is linked to engagement and risk behavior.
Current research around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) indicates that there is a strong, graded relationship to numerous health, social, and behavioral problems throughout their lifespan, including substance use disorders. Furthermore, many problems related to ACEs tend to be comorbid, or co-occurring.[7]
When Trish was first introduced to Jack Canfield's Success Principles work at a live event in August 2010, she was at a crossroads and considering a career change. But after the first day of the event, instead of focusing on her own future, she found herself so inspired by the content and was so excited about the impact it would have on her middle and high school students that she went back to her hotel room and began enthusiastically incorporating the success principles into the health curriculum and peer education program she was already teaching to high school and middle school students and into most all the work she did with youth service professionals.
She learned simple yet powerful heart-centered tools that resulted in a deepened connection to self and others, supported self advocacy and created a classroom culture of personal responsibility, collaboration, respect and mutual support while providing students with some basic success principles.
Trisha's inspired enthusiasm continued for the entire seven days of the event as she witnessed amazing transformation in herself and the other participants that came from all over the world to train with Jack. She knew deep down in her heart and soul that she was onto something.
"Why aren't we teaching these principles to our young people?", Trish wondered as she went through the training. Her head spun with possibilities of developing a full course curriculum, freshman transition program, student leadership retreats, heart centered and empowering workshops to teach and promote connection and positive school culture to replace "anti-bullying" assemblies and professional development workshops for teachers. By the end of the week Trisha had a vision to work to bring this work to schools across the country. She shared the vision with Jack who encouraged her to move forward and expressed his intention to join her down the line.
When Trish returned to the classroom after BTS, she began!
- In September of 2010 she incorporated a few activities into her health classes and peer education training.
- In the summer of 2012 Trisha trained a group of Teen Clinic peer educators using the Pathways to Success for Youth model and incorporated the principles into her adolescent health clinic.
- In the October 2012, Trish completed Jack's year long Success Principles Train the Trainer course.
- In the Spring of 2013, she piloted a full two week curriculum in middle school health classes. The response from students was positive and feedback about several activities were described as "life-changing".
- In the August of 2014, Trish brought a team of young people ages 15-24 to do an intense success principles training with Jack so she could begin to train teachers, youth service providers, parents and youth leaders in the model.
- In the Fall of 2014, Trish, along with her youth team, piloted a full two week curriculum in high school health classes. The feedback from her students was overwhelming and totally convinced Trish to pursue her vision for expansion.
- In the Summer of 2015, Trisha became one of Jack's first Certified Success Principles Trainers.
- In the August, 2015 Trish began building her team's capacity and brought a team of 14 teens, young adults and youth serving professionals to prepare for the next steps in bringing the Success principles to young people.
- In January, 2016 the Pathways to Success for Youth Team received funding to support the development of an 8th to 9th grade transition program to support students and faculty in creating positive school culture and developing success skills during the initial transition to high school and throughout the school year.
- In August 2016, the team expanded to include adults with important skills (financial management, grant writing, curriculum design, marketing and design) to be part of the Pathways team to help move the vision further along. New members attended BTS and are excited about what's next!
- In response to the widespread incidence of school violence as well as the current initiative to create trauma sensitive school culture, Trisha and her team have joined forces with Dr. Deborah Sandella of the RIM Institute to help facilitate education and implementation of RIM as a intervention tool as part of the early identification of risk and preventing school violence.
Trish was honored when Jack asked her to lead his success principles legacy project and partner with key stakeholders in school safety, cultural values, leadership and social emotional learning.
The goal is to create both live and online curriculum materials and professional development programs that will be readily available and easy to implement and replicate in schools and communities across the country.
Here's what Trish says about the Pathways to Success for Youth Project:
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Patty Aubery, President of The Canfield Training Group interviews members of the Pathways to Success for Youth Team about the impact of this work on young people.