Learning to live positive lives
Three mornings a week, more than a dozen keen students and their support workers involved with Katikati’s Chrome Collective Charitable Trust turn up to Charli Crocker’s course with the aim of going from ‘Good to Great’.
The Edvance course is designed to teach skills for success. Charli says adaptability and creating positive forward movement are key.
“The support workers are having a massive impact on positivity and adaptability, and they’re getting a lot out of the course, too,” she says.
Some of the key messages include: being proud of who we are and what we do. Rather than look at how we are different, we try to get out to community activities at least once a week and look for things we have in common with others.
It’s OK to not be OK. How to deal with emotions, including those of others.
Time management and goal setting; what we’re looking for in our lives and how we can build our skills and overcome challenges.
Making everyday routines, finding things to be grateful for, and being our own advocates, as well as building practical life skills.
Charli describes it as a holistic educational journey. One of her students puts it a little more simply, “I really like it. It’s a good atmosphere. We go for walks, we make stuff, and we talk about stuff. When the boys aren’t being too noisy!”
We are thrilled to be one of the many community groups that TECT supports.
They have offered us a $20,000 grant which will go towards our annual operating costs. We, naturally, gratefully accepted.
We have just found out Charli has been funded for another Good to Great course, which will start at the end of October. Meanwhile, the Frozen Funds Trust, managed by the Public Trust, has just given us $10,000 to fund our efforts.
If you follow Chrome Collective on Facebook, you might already have seen our photo of a beaming Renee with a laptop donated to us by Katikati Rotary. Our thanks to Jude Robinson for organising this. They also gave us a desktop computer donated for the main workspace so our entrepreneurs can access the internet when they’re volunteering here (and maybe get a few tips from Fi). Thanks, Rotary. This really makes a big difference to us. Article supplied.