What will you dare to do?
What Will You Dare To Do? - What Happens When You First Meet Grit
Enrolment sessions are the time when we meet prospective Grit participants for the first time. It’s when we set out our stall and explain what we’re all about. It’s a chance to begin a conversation and, for a student, a time to think about how Grit can support you to thrive. Grit's own Emma Plenty describes what happens.
Grit is an opportunity to experiment with who you are being, to find out who you really are, to find out who you can be.
Our question to you is, what is it that you will DARE to do?
Think of it as trying on a different set of clothes to see how they make you feel. For example, it might be that you want to participate more in seminars and classes but you just can’t bring yourself to. It’s that fear looking foolish, the fear of judgement, the critical inner voice, the belief that ‘I’m just not good enough.’
With Grit you are in a safe space. You are with a whole bunch of other people who are also working out what it is they will dare to do. Put up your hand, say your piece, participate - no-one is judging you here. See how that feels. Get used to the unfamiliar. Reflect on what it has done for you.
You might be an international student struggling in an unfamiliar country, a different culture, a mountain of work and social world you just can’t figure out. Grit can be where you practice starting a conversation with a stranger, find common ground, put in the building blocks of a support network. Go on - what have you got to lose?
Grit can be whatever you want to make it. It’s about re-imagining who you are being. It’s about breaking through your limitations.
Do you DARE to do Grit?
Change your thinking, change your world!
Warwickshire County Council celebrates Grit schools programme successes! Take a look here.
Telling It Like It Is: Grit and Youth Professionals
Recently we’ve been working the Young Brent Foundation and the team at the Young Westminster Foundation, two of the network of Young People’s Foundations in London. The Foundations bring together the public, private and voluntary sectors to work towards a common goal: high quality support and opportunities for young people.
Watch Young Brent Foundation CEO and Grit Trustee Chris Murray talk what it is like working with Grit and the impact it has had on him and the way he operates.
Thank you, Roy Ackerman
At our recent AGM Roy Ackerman, Grit Trustee since 1993, stepped down.
Roy is Creative Director at Films of Record. He is an innovative and acclaimed TV producer who was proud to make “Ballet Changed My Life” which showcased the work of Grit, then Youth at Risk, working with 150 excluded young people in the midlands. He’s specialised in high profile documentaries, some chronicling social issues and/or celebrating the achievements of people under pressure.
He is about to move on to a new adventure in New York.
“I have worked with Grit for nearly 30 years now because of the charity’s commitment to young people. The work challenges them to rise above what they might see as impossible obstacles. It is always fearless and done with utter integrity, which is why I will always continue to support Grit in any way I can.”
Roy, we wish you all the very best and thank you for everything you have done for Grit over the years.
