Identity • Place • Culture • Memory

 

Where have you lived?
What do you carry with you?
What does home feel like, and where does it live now?

 

In this circle, youth create:

• Identity Maps

• Memory Tapestries

• “Where I Am From” Poetic Cards

• Cultural Symbol Cards

 

We are made of many places, and all of them belong.

Caregiving • Responsibility • Emotional Labor

 

A space for:

• Siblings who support the home

• Youth with caregiving roles

• Children of injured, recovering, or single parents

• Those who hold emotional weight quietly

 

This space honors:

• Quiet leadership

• Care as strength

• The unseen labor youth perform

 

We recognize care as leadership, not burden.

This session links to TCCSH (Turn Care Into Credit) service hours recognition.

Mental & Emotional Steadiness • Nervous System Grounding • Self-Compassion

 

In this lab, youth practice:

• Grounding and breathing techniques

• What to do when overwhelmed

• Asking for support without apology

• Naming emotions without shame

• Protecting joy

 

This is not therapy.
This is collective remembering of how to stay whole.

Strength is not silence. Strength is staying present.

Purpose • Next Steps • Paths Forward

 

This is not:

• Career pressure

• College competition

• “Where do you see yourself in 10 years?”

 

This is:

• What do I value?

• What kind of human do I want to be?

• What story am I carrying into adulthood?

 

Youth choose pathways into:

• Service

• Trade & skill careers

• College

• Entrepreneurship

• Art & creative futures

• Care & teaching fields

• Exploratory year choices

 

The future is not chosen by others, it is authored from within.

Food • Money • Transition • Survival • Community Support

 

A conversation rooted in reality, not performance.

Youth discuss:

• Food insecurity

• Working to contribute at home

• Budget stress during PCS cycles

• When “making it work” becomes the norm

 

Session outcome:

• Resource map

• Support web

• Community micro-solidarity commitments

 

No one survives alone, we rise because we rise together.