The Hero Workshop
The Hero Workshop where kids find the hero inside.
The HERO
Matt Langdon, the Australian creator of the Hero Workshop program, left Australia to spend a summer in Michigan working at a YMCA camp. That was thirteen years ago.
Matt started the Hero Workshop in 2006 with the goal of using the skills he’d developed through living the camp life of “learn everything, just in case”. At camp Matt worked with people aged from five to “don’t ask” in sometimes wildly different circumstances and environments. They helped Matt realise what a real hero is.
The aim of the program is to show young people that by doing the little things every day they can become heroes. Far from having to perform miraculous deeds, they are provided with an attainable goal.
Matt works with Dr. Philip Zimbardo and Zeno Franco on their study of heroism in reference to the psychology world. Zimbardo has recently retired as Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and is keen to spread the word of heroism around the world.
THE HERO WORKSHOP ‘WORD-CLOUD’
http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/346368/The_Hero_Workshop
http://thejanuscenter.com/heroworkshop/index.htm
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