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“Setting Goals for the Next Journey” speaks directly to Middle and High School students as they prepare to continue on with their education or the next step in their life’s journey. This presentation provides very practical suggestions for dealing with the future and the many variables involved. It discusses goal setting itself, why goals are important, and how to go about it. Although based in reality, the Program calls forth the best in each student and invites them to reach high, yet dream their future into the present moment and trust all that is unique in each person. The Program speaks to their brain while touching their heart.
45-60 Minutes
Keynote: $5000
First Class Air-Fare and transportation
We look forward to working with you and your organization.
Doug Dvorak’s The Magic of Mentoring program is an influential force for human capital development.
A matter of trust. Youth Mentoring is a structured and trusting relationship that brings young people together with caring and competent individuals who offer guidance, support and encouragement aimed at developing and enhancing the academic competence and character of the Mentee (Your Students). A Youth Mentor is a professional with specific business and youth acumen and competencies who provides a Mentee with support, counsel, friendship, reinforcement and constructive example. Youth Mentors are good listeners, people who care; people who want to help younger individuals bring out strengths that are already there.
Youth Mentoring refers to a developmental relationship between a more experienced Mentor and a less experienced partner, or Mentee. Through regular interactions (face-to-face, on the phone or via email), the Mentee relies on the Mentor’s guidance to gain skills, perspective and experience. Mentoring exists in many forms: formal or informal, group or one-to-one, structured or unstructured and is always one size fits one! With roots in ancient history, Mentoring now brings value to schools, organizations and communities worldwide. Doug Dvorak is a recognized leader and pioneer in offering formal mentoring programs to individuals (young and old), corporations, and associations. The internal and crossorganization programs he has designed and delivered help schools and other youth programs strengthen talent in ways that tie directly to academic, relationship building and behavioral goals. His mentoring philosophy is based on his proven methodology, tools and structure around training, matching, accountability, and more.
There are few talent development tools more powerful than a well-designed Youth Mentoring program. Our clients have come to realize this, and many have been with us since our founding. Schools and other organizations depend on us to understand their students/youths in order to develop and deliver Youth Mentoring programs that tie directly to their strategic goals, defining success at the outset, so that everyone recognizes it when it arrives.
Whether you want to focus on leadership development, organizational planning, fostering innovation or a host of other critical academic talent issues, our experienced consulting partners work closely with your school or youth organization to deliver a program, which addresses your specific school/youth organization objectives. With our extensive experience in the arena of human capital development, we have created a number of groundbreaking mentoring platforms that can be customized to maximize your schools mentoring experience and ensure return on investment for your students and staffs’ development initiatives.
A sampling of our signature programs that deliver customized solutions to your organization's development are:
The most powerful component of our program is the direct access to the knowledge, experience, and insight of a more-experienced professional from another organization. Our highly personalized and in-depth match process guarantees that each partnership addresses the specific needs of the Youth or Staff Mentee and the objective of your school program or assembly.
This groundbreaking program combines formal one-to-one Mentoring, youth education and peer networking to create a powerful learning experience. Our program gives schools and their students a compelling and cost-effective way to recognize and invest in your emerging young adults and school staff.
This collaborative program brings together a group of Mentees whose common goal is to develop both personally and professionally from the guidance and feedback provided by dedicated Mentors. Mentees drive the process by scheduling and facilitating meetings based upon their collective development needs and benefit not only from the insight of committed Mentors but from the interaction of their Mentee circles group.
Designed as a program for self-starting individuals, we place development tools directly in the hands of the participant. We have developed a comprehensive process that provides an organized action plan, which guides the participant from assessing their readiness for a Mentoring partnership to identifying a Mentor and defining development goals. Schools can use this program independently or as a complement to more comprehensive, formal programs.
This workshop will prepare you to set up your schools own Mentoring system. Learn how to use a formal Mentoring approach to support diversity and succession planning. Establish strategic goals and plans for implementing mentoring. Develop strategies for selecting and matching mentors and Mentees. Gain the most sought after skills in the best way possible for communicating the process to your students and staff. Leave with a valuable step-by-step guide for establishing and sustaining a mentoring system.
One-hour keynote OR half-day abridged version is delivered in a 3-4 hour format OR complete version may be delivered in a 6-8 hour format.
Overhead / LCD projector and screen - Wireless lavaliere microphone
We look forward to working with your students and your school.
Our student, faculty and administration team building workshops are highly interactive and are customizable to meet the specific needs of your school. The variety of experiential exercises that are available can take you outdoors or keep you inside assembly room of your school. No matter what direction your school decides to take, our team building workshops will create excitement, focus, and action for improvement.
In advance of your program, we'll ask each student in your school to invest fifteen minutes in completing a team building questionnaire. This assessment gathers key preferences, including communicating, learning, and decision-making. We'll supply all materials and instructions, and we'll ask you to return the completed questionnaires a couple of weeks before your school assembly. Your schools facilitator will use the results—along with a pre-course consultation with you—to personalize your program for your group of students. The resulting workshop is highly interactive. Your facilitator will guide participants through fascinating exercises that bring team relationships into clear focus. Your teammates/students will have fun in the program, but they'll also discover something fascinating: How personality preferences and the resulting personal relationships can paralyze or mobilize a group. Participants will also receive their 25-page individual profiles during the workshop. These personality "owners manuals" provide enlightening insights that will benefit students throughout their lives. Participants customarily share their outcomes with their teammates, instantly upgrading your students’ relationships
Half-day abridged version is delivered in a 3-4 hour format. Complete version may be delivered in a 6-8 hour format.
We look forward to working with you and your school.
Keynote Address or Workshop
Your personal brand is the values that your friends, family, co-workers, and the marketplace associates with your name. (In high school it might be known as your reputation.) What values do you stand for? How do you make that clear to the world around you? How do you achieve your goals by being clearer and more visible? By developing your Personal Branding.
Personal Branding describes the process by which individuals differentiate themselves through identifying and articulating their unique value proposition (UVP) to achieve a specific goal. Many other people bring the same products, services and skills to school that you do. So why is it that some people just seem to stand out? Chances are, consciously or unconsciously, they have created their own unique personal brand. Personal Branding is not about applying a thin layer of veneer. It's about getting in touch with your authentic self - what's true and real and genuine about you. It's about harnessing the values you live by and the passions that drive you and presenting the real you to others.
“Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the position we
happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of personal
branding. We are the CEO’s of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in school
today, your most important job is to be the head marketer for the brand
called YOU!”
Tom Peters
Management Guru
One-hour keynote OR half-day abridged version is delivered in a 3-4 hour format OR complete version may be delivered in a 6-8 hour format.
We look forward to working with you and your school.
How to put more fun in School and Your Life!! In this program, students and faculty will learn how humor can reduce stress, improve creativity, increase productivity and balance the stress of life and school by providing them a new perspective. Through a fun, funny and educational experience, participants will acquire humor coping skills to incorporate into their personal and academic lives.
This program will offer participants the opportunity to:
45 - 60 Minutes
We look forward to working with you and your school.
What's your HQ? (Humor Quotient) Is it surprisingly low or non-existent? Are you laughing and living up to your humor potential? If you want to develop and exercise your "Funny Bones", then you should plan on attending this interactive workshop.
Who should attend? Anyone who wants to add humor and laughter to their personal and professional life! This workshop takes your students and staff through the creative process of humor and improvisation and teaches you to recognize the "Funny" in us all.
Recognize the importance and power of laughter and humor in life and work.
45 - 60 Minutes
We look forward to working and laughing with you and your school.
Doug Dvorak is one only 500 Certified Laughter Yoga Teachers in The United States. Doug personally trained with Dr. Madan Kataria, the Founder of The World Wide Laughter Yoga movement. This training is both a crash course into laughter yoga as well as an advanced training for all seasoned laughter yoga practitioners.
Same, simplified, and more: You will learn everything that is taught by the Dr Kataria School Of Laughter Yoga in a simplified and more effective way. I have been practicing and teaching Laughter Yoga in North America since 2006 and have constantly strived to refine and improve the way we have led laughter sessions. Save yourself the learning curve! It took a while and what we now have is a simple yet very powerful protocol that anybody can follow to create, strengthen and sustain strong both personal and group laughter dynamics. Your students do not need to be powerful laughers themselves. That is a gift that few have. I teach skills that anybody can learn. The end result is exactly the same, oftentimes better because it teaches that anybody can shine, as they are, where they are, regardless of where they come from and may be going. This includes you and every single one of your students.
Far beyond the call of duty: Your students and staff will also learn enhanced ways devised by Doug Dvorak to multiply the impact of your laughter sessions on all of the following topics covered in this training:
20 basic variations for any given laughter exercise: Age / Gender / Coordination / Denture / Dexterity / Distance / Eyesight / Funny associations / “Make it more interesting” / Mood / Size / Smell / Social groups at different times in history / Sound / Speed / Style / Taste / Using different body parts / Using different objects / Weight.
Gain a deeper understanding of the philosophies behind Laughter Yoga: Laughter Yoga did not originate in a vacuum. The truths it conveys are ancient and can be partly summarized by the WORRY approach to stress management that the famous Indian scripture the Bhagavat Gita talks about:
Expect to laugh a lot, recharge your batteries and learn enhanced ways to create, spice up and strengthen the (therapeutic) impact of your laughter sessions!
All the following people will greatly benefit from attending this fun and empowering event, both on a personal as much as on a personal level: Everybody and anybody who loves and wants to laugh!
No sense of humor or yoga experience is necessary. All can attend regardless of their level of physical fitness (if you are in doubt do ask your physician). We greatly appreciate if you can let us know ahead of time about any health challenge you may be facing. Laughing remains optional throughout this training and there is nothing your students have to do if they choose not to participate in the group activities
This experiential (and often life-transforming) Laughter Yoga workshop will:
Make you feel good about yourself and more importantly, make your students feel better about themselves (we will laugh a lot for no particular reason. Promised.)
Show you how to release tension in a safe and positive manner Inspire and empower you to start and run a social Laughter Club both for your own as much as for your community's benefit.
What you will receive before the workshop
A very comprehensive training manual (sent to you by email). You do not need to print it nor bring it to the training itself. It is intended as a reference copy. You will have the opportunity to buy a printed version at cost on-site should you wish to have one.
A printed summary of what you really need to know. A Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Diploma. This certification is for life. You will not need to pay us any fee to maintain it every year. We are affiliated with the Dr Kataria School Of Laughter Yoga. This certification officially welcomes you into the international Laughter Yoga family.
Contact list of all workshop participants + group picture (sent by email) A summary list of valuable files you can use (sent by email)
Flexible And Empowering Beyond Your Wildest Dreams Even though you will learn in this training a standardized and structured program of light laughter exercise, how you apply it is up to you. This is where our training becomes hugely different from others. Regular practice of this method will develop your creativity to levels you may not believe you had in you. You get to bypass the learning curve at the speed of light!
When you complete the training, you are independent in how to use your training with your students in the future. This training gives you a foundation for systematic, repeatable, appealing and desirable laughterrelated programs with healthy values, that leave plenty of room for your personality to shine through with your own creative expression. As such many Certified Laughter Yoga Leaders practice their newly acquired skills or add to their existing abilities as paid speakers, class instructors, seminar leaders, or provide other health-related services that are significantly enhanced with Laughter Yoga.
The "Certified Laughter Yoga Leader" diploma (trademark of Dr Kataria School Of Laughter Yoga and only official Laughter Yoga certification) will be handed out to graduates upon completion of the workshop.
We look forward to working and laughing with you and your school.
Doug is available to Emcee your next school assembly, school fund-raising event or any other school activity that requires a professional emcee. As a seasoned Emcee, Doug understands the pivotal roll required in making your event a success. Here's what Doug delivers as your Professional Master of Ceremonies:
Wireless lavaliere / hand held microphone
Call Doug for pricing and availability. Travel expenses billed separately
We look forward to working with your students and your school.
Presented by Doug Dvorak
Speaker, Author, Consultant
© 2015 • Doug Dvorak – DMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved
(847) 359-6969
Success, Motivation, Appreciation, Relentless & True
Audience: Grades 5 – 12
Length: 45-60 minutes
Making a deep personal and relevant connection with teens whilst imparting a positive influence in their lives is what all educators & parents desire, but it’s not always easy. Doug imbues a natural gift and overwhelming passion to instill positive choices, self-confidence and self-belief in teens. His personal story of surviving cancer – TWICE and climbing some of the highest mountain peaks on the planet will make you laugh and truly inspire.
Doug’s experience with living outside of his comfort zone and facing adversity head-on, is an inspiration to all, and best of all, he causes a shift in the perception and attitude of teens, which creates enormous differences and positive outcomes & better choices in their lives. Doug inspires and empowers youth to make S.M.A.R.T – Successful, Motivated, Appreciative, Relentless & True choices and to step-up in their own lives in order to live extraordinary lives. His gift has inspired over 200 thousand teenagers across the globe.
Presented by Doug Dvorak
Speaker, Author, Consultant
© 2015 • Doug Dvorak – DMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved
(847) 359-6969
“Think. Do. Be. Positive” speaks directly to Middle and High School aged youth as they work through life’s journey. This presentation provides very practical suggestions for creating and maintaining a positive attitude and the many variables involved. It discusses attitude, why attitude is important, and how to go about creating and living with a positive mental attitude. Although based in reality, the program calls forth the best in each student and invites them to reach high, yet dream their future into the present moment and trust all that is unique in each person. The program speaks to their brain while touching their heart.
60 Minutes
We look forward to working with you.
Audio out from Doug’s laptop, small table for Doug’s laptop, overhead / LCD projector and screen / Wireless lavaliere and hand-held microphone
1. Opening session keynote – Doug Dvorak: "Think. Do. Be. Positive” – 60 Minutes
Further discussion with yourself and any other staff (meeting planner, event coordinator) is needed to determine final program content. Based on the information we collect and the information provided thus far, content will be discussed, customized and agreed upon.
You Get More When You Give
Presented by Doug Dvorak
Speaker, Author, Consultant
(847) 359-6969
Volunteering is the secret weapon of successful, happy people.
Finding time to give back to the community and to make new connections has been proven to improve not only the lives of others, but your own life as well.
Through my program you will learn the surprising benefits of volunteering, which include:
Through my program participants will also learn:
While it is hard to distinguish whether it is because people with higher wellbeing tend to volunteer or if volunteering actually improves our wellbeing, the consensus is that a combination of the interaction provided by volunteering and the personal satisfaction achieved is likely to have a positive impact on our happiness.
Surprisingly, you don’t need to devote huge chunks of time to doing good in order to reap the benefits.
Workshop Agenda
Who Should Attend
The Volunteering 101 – You Get More When You Give program is ideal for anyone with current or anticipated volunteering responsibilities or those who may be interested in giving back.
Equipment Required:
Audio out from Doug’s laptop, small table for Doug’s laptop, overhead / LCD projector and screen / Wireless lavaliere and hand-held microphone
Potential Program Format:
Potential Program Content (Will Be Modified/Customized)
Further discussion with yourself and any other staff (meeting planner, event coordinator) is needed to determine final program content. Based on the information we collect and the information provided thus far, content will be discussed, customized and agreed upon.
Presentation Style:
The program will be upbeat with the right blend of motivation, inspiration and the message you want your group to internalize. The keynote will be mildly interactive and include optional but encouraged audience participation, short exercises and video.
