School Workshops & Seminars:

Middle Schools

Middle School is such an important time for our youth. This is a time where choices made now may affect ones' life in later years.

Jerome's message for Middle School Assemblies is "Lets Talk About Life". This motivational school assembly will take your students on a journey of self-discovery. Students will learn about character, making right choices, responsibility, and integrity, respect, hard work and passion to name a few. Most importantly, I will share what he feels to be the most important expectations for life:

• Be yourself
• Contribute to the world
• Respect yourself and others

High School

Jerome has addressed high schools from Fairbanks Alaska, British Columbia Canada, to all parts of California and everywhere in between. Thousands of high school students and educators from all walks of life have absorbed Jerome’s elevating message about personal power, strength, and the ability to contribute positively to community and society. His high school assemblies focus on looking what going on around us, thinking about positive actions and personal responsibility, and choosing to take action. His assembly addresses can be tailored to your theme with advance notice. The bottom line is that he committees to providing your students and staff one of the best assemblies of the year.

Whether speaking to troubled youth or student leaders, Jerome puts his heart and soul into his audience leaving them with a message they will never forget. Jerome is affectionately referred to as the “Youth Whisperer” for his ability to connect with youth. He also has a unique ability to connect with adult in the same way.

When you bring Jerome to your high school for your next student assembly, you will hear how he overcame obstacles while finding humor in even his darkest moments. He will make a connection with your students that is real and heartfelt. Jerome speaks their language and students sense immediately that he “has been there done that”.

Jerome’s message will leave a lasting impression that inspires thought, self-reflection, and change.

For a change, and a different style of speaker, call the youth whisperer.

School / In-Service / Community

IT'S OK 2 B U:

IT's OK 2 B U is a presentation for high school or middle student speaking to the importance of not being pressured or infuenced into being someone you are not. To accept who you are, share the gift of who you are, and stand up to the the issues of violence, racism, bullying, teasing, stereotypes, drug use that teens face each day.. It will create circumstances that will assist students in recognizing the power within themsleves, the tools and strategies that they already have, to help them be the HERO'S and SHER'S they are.

Through this interactive, engaging and funning presentation, participants will learn they are not alone. That they they don't have to dress a cetain say; talk a certain way; act a certain way to feel valued and accepted for who they are. To break down the walls of separation and create new levels of respect and communication with their peers, their teachers, their parents and themselves.

This presentation is an opportunity for students to see the possibility of how things can be if they are themsleves around their peers, in their school and their community. The most important tool one can have, is the BELIEF that you can be who you are meant to be.

Participants will:

• Create new levels of self awareness
• Create a new level of slef acceptance
• Recognize that they are not alone
• Develop a stronger sense of purspose and belonging
• Recognize the power they have to make change
• Learn tools to assist in drawing on their personal change
• Identify strategies that have worked for them in facing the many pressures and influences
• Come together to support each other and community
• Realize they are all valued and celebrated

DRUG PREVENTION: Drug Trends, Myths, Facts, and choices: (Middle & High School)

This interactive presentation is best suited for two sessions, and can be condensed into one hour. However, to truly speak to the overwhelming and significant issue of drug use in our culture, and specifically with our youth, two sessions or more is best. It involves the sharing of Jerome's personal journey into the drug world and the realities of that world. It will involve a real and candid discussion that explores current drug trends, drug facts, and the lifestyle.

Students will leave with:

• Knowledge of current Drug Facts
• The Myths and Realities
• Possible consequences of use/misuse
• Strategies in keeping drug out of their lives
• Communication tools to assist talking with parents

CHANGE: I AM The Chance – Look-Think-Act:

I Am Change aims to inspire youth to be active leaders in bringing social change to their schools, communities, society, and themselves. TO LOOK, THINK, ACT.

Margaret Wheatley said, "we can no longer wait for leaders or laws to create the changes we need. It's up to us, and it's the only way the world ever changes--when a few friends start talking. Am I willing to assume the responsibility for creating the changes I want to see in the world?"

Aligning ourselves with the words of Mohandas K. Gandhi, “we must be the change we wish to see in the world”, the I AM the Change Movement is meant to inspire people everywhere to I AM the Change they wish to see in their own way. Our simple three-step formula for change has helped to transform the lives of people all over the world.

The challenge is to Look – at what’s happening around you, and in your own life, then THINK of positive actions that help you change things, and finally to Act as a living example and take action necessary to bring the change you want to see.

What if we created a caring and safe world, where everyone respected diversity of our culture, where we all took 100 percent responsibility for our choices, where community was involved, and where we strived for a world where everyone wins? What if we created a world where no person was bullied, harassed, put down, or made to feel less than? Jerome relates these dynamics to his own life as he went through being paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair and how he embraced change and with a positive attitude. This workshop invites you to deconstruct how we learn, work, teach and live in today’s world while being the Change. To be fully awake and to LOOK, THINK, and ACT.

"Is this decision going to bring people together? Will it weave a stronger web, or, will it create further disintegration and separation?' I like to ask, "In what I am about to do, am I turning toward others, or turning away?" "Am I moving closer, or am I retreating from them?"

This presentation invites participants to:

• Recognizing what needs to be changed within our own lives and the world around us.
• Look at small changes that can lead to big changes.
• Look at how we view, cope, and react to change.
• Look at 4 characteristics that can represent the simple and complex parts of ourselves; identifying change, moving into Action, Denial and resistance (fear), and adapting to change.
• How leading by example impact the people around us.
• The characteristics of us we choose to use, we all share something in common: a need to find our way through the personal and global maze, and succeed in changing times.
• How we can contribute from small ways to bigger ways
• The power and impact one person has in the world