​Be the Star you Are​

Be the Star you Are guides youth and adults to access
and develop their own:

Identity
Relationships
Values
Gifts
Voice
Vision
Leadership

By guiding participants to answer the following
questions for themselves:

Who am I?
What am I?
Where am I?
Where do I come from?
Who supports me?
How do I create healthy relationships with

my self, others, and the Earth?

What do I care about?
What do I want to change in the world?
How do I express myself?

What do I want to experience?
What do I want to create?
Is my air clean?
Where does my water come from?
Where does my food come from?
Why am I here?
Where am I going?
How do I get there?
What can I do to heal and empower myself and others?

Be the Star You Are is where our holistic and integrative approach to self-discovery and leadership development comes to life. In our hybrid online and in-person format, we work closely with participants to co-create unified progressions of inward discovery and outdoor experiences that uplift their innate nature, humanity, health, creativity, curiosity, identity, interests, passions, and direction in life. We work to identify the sparks within each participant that will ignite their inner fire of fascination and motivation to learn, grow, discover, and thrive. Once lit, it illuminates the path forward.

Be the Star You Are includes integrative project-based learning with online guidance and support to design, complete, and showcase projects. It also includes customized field trips and tours designed to promote self-discovery, growth, reflection, and empowerment. We allow a project to emerge from a participant's identities, challenges, and aspirations. We guide participants to illuminate and activate the natural connections between particular passions and their physical, emotional, relational, cultural, creative, intellectual, and energetic potentials for realization.

As Jane M. Healy warns us in Endangered Minds—Why Our Children Don't Think, "As well-intentioned parents and teachers, we all sometimes end up taking charge of learning and trying to "stuff" in rather than arranging things so that the youngster's curiosity impels the process…. Children need stimulation and intellectual challenges, but they must be actively involved in their learning, not responding passively while another brain—their teacher's or parent's—laboriously develops new synapses on their behalf!" At InDiGO we aim to create to create the conditions for u nifying experiences to occur within participants through preparation before, and processing and presenting after each of our expeditions.

We enroll youth, adults, and whole households so each member can participate as fully as possible in nurturing our SELf-discovery and development process and even activate their own inner child's desire to learn alongside the youth. Our program includes individual sessions for adults over 18 years old, youth-focused sessions in small groups, adult-focused sessions to update about youth progress and goals, as well as intergenerational expeditions and events. Due to COVID-19 related safety, all our in-person programs will be with one or two households at a time until further notice. We plan to budget for and fundraise additionally to support transportation and program costs for youth and families.