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What if you could identify the brightest, most resilient young people displaced or orphaned by conflict, who have survived - and thrived - despite enormous odds?
What if you could bring them together in a sheltering space and help them heal, learn, and excel through exposure to maverick thinkers and mentors in areas as diverse as entrepreneurship, spirituality, technology, design, psychology - all focused on finding ways to dramatically improve the human condition through creativity, compassion, and innovation?
What if you could give them the tools, sanctuary, and encouragement to unfold and develop from their own unique blueprint into deeply authentic, connected human beings - with humility, openness, and an understanding of their place in the world as a part of the whole?
What if they used the power of their individual and collective strength to change their worlds - and through that, they changed the world for us all?
The Strongheart Fellowship Program is a groundbreaking healing and learning guidance program designed to help bright, resilient young people from extremely challenging circumstances around the globe develop into compassionate, innovative problem-solvers and leaders that can affect significant social change.
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Heal. Learn. Excel.
The Strongheart Fellowship - located in Liberia, West Africa - provides extraordinary opportunity for exceptional young people from extremely challenging circumstances. Often displaced or orphaned by war, these are young people who have a marked "inner resilience" that has set them apart as remarkable potential leaders despite their conditions.
Residency at Strongheart House offers them a loving and supportive place to heal from the trauma of war, learn and benefit from a world of possibilities, and grow into their full potential.
Prospective Strongheart Fellows are chosen on the recommendation of an extensive network of NGOs, schools, journalists, and others working on the ground throughout resource-poor areas. There is no geographic restriction for prospective fellows. (For further description of criteria see: Choosing Strongheart Fellows.) Once chosen, all of the Fellow’s living and education expenses are provided. Our Fellows either live at Strongheart House Africa in Liberia, West Africa - or go to boarding school or education programs aboard.
What truly sets the Strongheart Program apart is our unique curriculum, rooted in the ideas of interpersonal neurobiology, the intersection of spirituality and science, and using neuroplasticity, mindfulness, slow life, authenticity, imagination, and community all as a path toward integration and the unfolding of each Fellow from their own unique blueprint into their authenticity - deepened and informed by their past rather than limited by it.
Our work is heavily influenced by Dr. Dan Siegel, Peter Block, Mathieu Ricard, Dr. Norman Doidge, and Dr. Michael Merzenich, among others. - thought leaders and innovators from the fields of neuroscience, happiness studies, and the structure of belonging and community. (See description of Curriculum.)
The Strongheart Fellowship is supported by a wide circle of professionals - an extended group that acts as a sounding board, offering fresh perspectives, and serving as valued advisors. Bringing the Fellows together in regular interaction with these supporters gives them invaluable first-hand exposure to a highly engaged multinational group of innovative “outside of the box” leaders who are pioneers in various fields including science, technology, business, social entrepreneurship, and the media.
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