The Junior Youth Empowerment Program is designed to assist with the spiritual and intellectual empowerment of junior youth (generally children between the ages of 11-15).
The Junior Youth Empowerment Program is composed of several courses which complement the academic and spiritual education provided by schools and other classes.
Bahá’í Junior Youth courses aim to assist young people, as they move from childhood through adolescence, to develop their spiritual qualities or virtues, their intellectual powers of expression, and their capabilities for service to society.
Junior youth face challenges that are unique to their age group. The degree of nurturing and encouragement given to them at this impressionable age determines who they will become as youth and adults. By providing Junior Youth programs that explore ethical and moral issues, whilst encouraging personal expression, the true potential within these young people can be realised thereby are benefiting themselves and society as a whole.
Objectives of Junior Youth Courses
Bahá’í-inspired junior youth courses address humanity’s growing concern for the moral and spiritual education of young people – a challenge which no community can afford to ignore.
The courses focus on the development of spiritual qualities or virtues, intellectual capabilities and capacities for service.
Through spiritual empowerment and development of spiritual perception the courses aim to raise the self-esteem of young people and to equip them with the knowledge, concepts and skills that will enable them to engage in acts of service to the community and to humanity.
Structure of Junior Youth Courses
The structure of junior youth programs may vary slightly from group to group, but it can generally be said that:
The programs adopt a participatory method of learning where facilitator and participants learn from each other,
Participants are engaged in activities such as artistic expression, discussion, drama, memorisation of quotations and poems, co-operative games, storytelling and acts of community service,
Classes are held on a regular basis,
There is no written homework.
If you are interested to receive information, please use the following contact details and relevant information will be sent to you.
Please contact The Hills Shire Bahá’i Community by email, or by calling the Secretary, Mrs Azita Ansari, on 0407 201 722.
Bahá’i National Office, Tel (02) 9998 9221 / (02) 9998 9222 / 1800 224 247, Or visit www.bahai.org.au
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