This begins with an exploration into what empathy really means, enabling students to find their own examples from experience or films or from characters in stories they love. With further interaction, we look at the important difference between empathy and sympathy. Students then get an opportunity to read from and act out a scene in ‘Home’ where one of the protagonists tells their story of how they became a refugee and eventually escaped to England. They witness how the two other protagonists with him demonstrate a deep empathy and how this leads to a lasting friendship. In the Q & A session at the end, students get to see how nurturing empathy can not only bring positive changes in understanding others, but how it also improves one’s relationship with oneself and builds inner confidence and tolerance.

Leadership is an exact and timely response to a real need. Every person can become a leader in any situation, by the way in which they lead themselves. This workshop enables students to rediscover and look afresh at the things in life which they are most passionate about, most interested in and potentially most capable in.

With encouragement and practical exercises, students find they no longer have to keep looking outside themselves for the latest cool role model, but they can look inside themselves to becoming their own role model.