August 6-10, 2014
Youth Creativity, Innovation & Sustainable Leadership Program
with Hiroo Gakuen
A workshop to explore the creative universe of young students for the benefit of environmental sustainability. Organized in collaboration with GPI US.

Venue: Stanford University

Students from Hiroo Gakuen Senior High School visited Stanford and the Bay Area for a CSDGC Youth Leadership Development workshop. The workshop focused on discovering creative energy and experiencing life lessons in leadership through innovative thinking and action.

Key elements of this workshop include:

• Discussion about sustainability with Glenn Katz.
• Discussion about Emotional Intelligence with Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu.
• Visit to the the Stanford Environmental Engineering Laboratory and the Stanford Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory hosted by Royal Kopperud and Peter Maraccini
• Visit to the Stanford d.school, and the Cantor Arts Center - to learn about discovery and innovation.
• Discussions about identifying opportunities, emotional intelligence, instrinsic motivation and meaningful innovation for the youth context.
• Exercises in fast thinking, teamwork, teambuilding and emotional intelligence.
• Mentoring by CSDGC interns.