What happens when we slow down, pause and take time to reflect on what is important? What do we learn about ourselves and others? How does it change how we listen and how we act? For 25 years, Joe Cavanaugh and his team at Youth Frontiers have challenged more than one million students and educators to do just that through dynamic retreat programs that allow kids to reflect on their values, attitudes and behaviors. Research shows that students become more self-aware and more socially aware, which enables them to embrace empathy and make responsible decisions to make their schools and their world a better place.

In this keynote, Joe translates the concepts from the successful Youth Frontiers retreat model to give concerned educators and school leaders tools to create respectful and engaged communities. Joe will challenge you to increase your self-awareness and consider if you perhaps are a part of the problem, while demonstrating how you can become part of the solution: by pausing, by listening and by taking responsibility to repair the world.