EDP # 9 A 5-Day youth Leadership Camp on discovering your Inherent Ability to Lead a Healthy Sexual Life Free from HIV/AIDs & Sex Abuse

Introduction

That children are beginning to learn about and experiment with sex at an alarming young age as confused parents struggle for a response is a common feature of every day media. Also in Nepal, the media in this information age has taken the role of sex education. And so, fed with distorted images and messages in this information age our children are growing up alarmingly early, with dangerously wrapped notions of sexual behavior. School boys barely in their teens think they can seduce a girl, as they do on television. Girls are beginning to believe it’s ok to get physical. It’s perverted sexual learning process that can permanently mar relationships with opposite sex. The tenderness of the first crush, the blossoming of relationship our children are growing up without knowing sex and love are meant to evolve.

One strong ground why the parents fear about imparting sex education is that neither the father nor the mother has any deep, conscious experience in the matter (sex). They themselves haven’t risen above the level of physical sex, and so they fear their children may become entangled at the same level as well. But isn’t it possible our children are spoken to, if they are taught, if they are allowed to think freely for themselves, they may save themselves from dissipating their energy? They may conserve their energy. And they may transform it.

We, here at National Institute for Leadership Development (P) Ltd., invite our partner organizations to address these queries: What is this sex education? Why is it such a powerful disturbance in our lives? Why does it pervade our entire beings? Why do our lives revolve around it, even to the end? What is the source of this urge? A commitment to delve into these queries and many more should be an opening for understanding sex from the spiritual perspective.

This workshop brings to you the insights of the Great Mystic and Spiritual Guru Osho (Acharya Rajaneeesh) based upon Guru’s groundbreaking work From Sex to Superconsciousness.

Objectives:

1. To increase knowledge of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for Adolescents in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies and STD/HIV.

2. To improve the possibility for young people to lead a healthy sexual life and to reach informed decisions on sexuality and reproduction.

3. To increase the participants' awareness of the significance of working with adolescents on SRHR/HIV and to provide knowledge of useful methods.

4. To enhance their leadership capabilities so that they are empowered to reach out to the larger teenage/ adolescent populace to transfer their knowledge and experiences as an expression of their commitment to prevent STDS/HIV/AIDs..

5. To promote the exchange between cultures and societies on SRHR issues.

Session 1:
Knowing Yourself
Who am I? (Self) Why am I here? (Family, community, Organization)
Body-Mind-Spirit.
The Body: foundation of the Self. The Senses: Taming Wild Horses.
Session 2:
What is Life?
Life as an experience versus life as a concept.
Purpose of Life versus Goal of Life
Session 3:
What is Love?
Love as an experience versus Love as a concept.
Is love a Feeling? Attachment?
The Spirit of Romance: Attraction, Infatuation, Courtship and Intimacy.
Love as a liking versus acceptance.
The Path of Love.
Session 3:
Understanding Human Development & Sexuality
Youth as a phase in human development.
Sexuality from a Sociological Point perspective.
Session 4:
Adolescent's Sexuality
• Boyfriends, Girlfriends, Just Friends or More than friends
• Sexual Intercourse
• Molest
• Rape
• Abortion
• Dating & Mating
• Gender in Health perspective
• Communicating with parents
• Coping with parents
Session 5:
"Safe Sex Is No Sex"
• Sex: the Most Vital Energy
• What Contaminates Sex Energy?
• Being Rooted in your Body
• Key to Eternal Life
• Alchemy of Transformation
• Sex and Money: A Deep Association
Session 6:
Facts & Figures
• National & Global Scenario of HIV/AIDS
• Contributing Factors of HIV/AIDS Spread in Nepal
Session 7:
Facts about HIV/AIDS
• The Immune System
• Basic Information about HIV/AIDS
• Transmission and Prevention of HIV/AIDS
• Stages of HIV Infection
Session 8:
Facts and Rumors about HIV/AIDS
• HIV Antibody Testing
• Understanding HIV
• Women, Gender and HIV/AIDS
Session 9:
Facts about STDs
• Reproductive Health Care
• STDs
• HIV/AIDS and STI Terminology
• Facts about condoms (Condom Use & promotion)
Session 10:
Communication and Counseling
• Risk Assessment
• Communication
• Basics of Counseling
• Counseling with Choice theory: The New Reality Therapy
• Behavior Change
• Barriers to Behavior change
Session 11:
Outreach & Team Building
• Team Working Principles
• How to build a Team
• How to Resolve Conflict
Session 12:
On Being a Leader
• What is leadership?
• What do leaders do?
• What are the qualities of a good leader?
• Types of leadership
• Are leaders born or made?
• Leadership Myths
Session 13:
Managing for Commitment
• The need for commitment
• The benefits of high commitment
• The high cost of low commitment
• Creating an action plan for commitment
• HAVE—DO—BE

Tuitions: NC Rs. 1,000/-per participant.
No of Participants: 50-60 Max.
Timing: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
Venue: School Premises