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G Yuva Courses · Grades 1–12
Confidence. Character. Leadership.
Eleven values on one journey. Each week brings a real-life challenge and the Replay: choose, learn something new, try again, then practice it in everyday life.
🔁 The heart of it
The Replay.
Real character grows when we can change our minds for good reasons. Every value follows the same four steps.
Read the challenge and make your first choice.
Something changes. A clue, a fact or another person’s view.
Choose again. Keep what worked, change what didn’t.
Take one small lesson into everyday life this week.
🧭 The journey
Confidence → Character → Leadership.
Confidence comes first: believing you can grow. Character grows from daily choices. Leadership is using both to lift others.
Believe you can grow.
Values 1–4: Mindset, Purpose, Confidence, DisciplineChoose well, every day.
Values 5–8: Wisdom, Action, Growth Circle, FocusLift others and lead the way.
Values 9–11: Courage, Service, Growth🏅 Eleven values
One value. One badge. One week.
From The Choice Detective to The Museum of Becoming.
See clearly and choose well: right over wrong, good over harmful, growth over giving up.
What you do: Challenge discouraging thoughts, check the evidence and find a constructive possibility.
“Is that thought true, and what else could be true?”
Stage: Confidence
Know your responsibility and your future destination, and own it.
What you do: Imagine a meaningful future and choose a responsibility today.
“Who do I want to become, and what can I take care of today?”
Stage: Confidence
Believe firmly that your goal will happen, and stay committed to it.
What you do: Make a commitment and practice restarting after setbacks.
“What will I promise, and how will I restart when I slip?”
Stage: Confidence
Picture your goal clearly, clear your mind and build mental muscle.
What you do: Rehearse, prepare for obstacles and practice self-control.
“What could get in the way, and what will I do then?”
Stage: Confidence
Gain the knowledge and know-how to reach your goal, ready for the AI age.
What you do: Learn, test, explain and improve.
“Do I really understand this well enough to teach it?”
Stage: Character
Make a plan and take consistent action.
What you do: Complete a small, useful project.
“What is the smallest useful thing I can finish this week?”
Stage: Character
Surround yourself with mentors, teachers and friends who help you grow.
What you do: Discover people’s strengths and exchange support.
“What can each of us teach, and what help do we need?”
Stage: Character
Channel your inner energy into your goal, every day.
What you do: Allocate limited attention while protecting rest.
“Where will my attention go today, and where will I rest?”
Stage: Character
Grow with courage and clarity instead of fear.
What you do: Rehearse and attempt a manageable brave action.
“What brave, safe step can I take this week?”
Stage: Leadership
Support and serve your family, friends, community and world.
What you do: Listen to a need, then design useful help.
“What does this person really need, and how can I help well?”
Stage: Leadership
Become your best self: self-inspired, clear, happy and always growing.
What you do: Showcase attempts, improvements, contributions and next steps.
“How have I grown, and what will I keep practising?”
Stage: Leadership
🎓 How students pass
Show it. Don’t just say it.
No tests. Children show growth through records, a real project and a practice they choose to keep.
📈 Visible growth
Before. After. Growing.
Every value starts and ends with a 30-second Growth Check, so children and parents can see change, not just completion.
🏅 Global Yuva Awards
Bronze. Silver. Gold.
Earned through values, daily practice, a real project and teaching someone younger, with a parent, teacher or coach to sign off on Gold.
🧑🏫 For coaches, teachers and parents
One session, eight simple moves.
Run it in a classroom, a library, a community center or at the kitchen table.
Names, a quick check-in and last week’s tiny practice.
Introduce the real-life challenge for this value.
Teams read the situation and make a first choice, spoken, drawn or written.
Share the twist.
Teams choose again and explain what changed.
Hands-on activity at the child’s level.
Each child picks one practice for the week.
Draw, write or say the record. Earn the value badge.
30–40 minutes. Pictures, acting, drawing and one choice at a time. Records can be drawn or spoken.
45 minutes. Pairs, picture cards and short written records.
60 minutes. Team roles, written records and simple projects.
60 minutes. Debate the replay, peer feedback and evidence.
75 minutes. Students lead parts of the session, mentor younger children, and follow the Purpose → Achievement → Significance pathway.
🧭 Grades 8–12 pathway
Purpose → Achievement → Significance.
From commitment to meaningful achievement, all through high school. Teenagers go further: they lead parts of each session, mentor younger children and finish by leading the eleven values for a younger group.
Leader in Making 1.0 · Grades 8–9. Growth starts with a definite goal.
A definite goal. Clarity, imagination, decisiveness and determination. Values 1–3: Mindset, Purpose, ConfidenceLeader in Making 2.0 · Grades 10–11. Stay on your success map.
Your success map. Discipline, focus, concentration, time management, accountability and a go-getter attitude. Values 4–6 and 8: Discipline, Wisdom, Action, FocusLeader in Making 3.0 · Grade 12 to college. Achievement that matters, and moments to celebrate.
Achievement that matters. Support, service and lifting others. Values 7 and 9–11: Growth Circle, Courage, Service, Growth. Capstone: lead the eleven values for a group of younger children👨👩👧 Parent guide
What to say this week.
Why each value matters, the words that help, and one family question. Each value maps to the CASEL social and emotional learning competencies.
Children copy the way adults talk about setbacks. Naming a thought as a thought, not a fact, helps them stay hopeful and keep trying.
Family question: What is one thing you thought you couldn’t do, that you can do now?
A sense of purpose grows from small responsibilities children own, long before they choose a career.
Family question: What is one responsibility in our home that you could own this month?
Confidence grows from keeping small promises and restarting quickly after a slip, not from never failing.
Family question: Tell a story about a time you restarted after breaking a promise to yourself.
If-then plans and rehearsal make self-control easier, especially in the moments that usually go wrong.
Family question: What is one hard moment this week, and what is our if-then plan for it?
Explaining something in your own words shows what you really understand, and checking sources is a life skill in the AI age.
Family question: Teach us something you learned this week in under two minutes.
Finishing small, useful projects builds the habit of starting, improving and following through.
Family question: What tiny project could our family finish together this weekend?
Children thrive when they know their own strengths and the strengths of the people around them, and feel safe asking for help.
Family question: Who in our family or neighborhood has a skill you’d love to learn?
Attention and sleep are limited resources. Planning where they go is a skill children can practice.
Family question: What steals our family’s attention most, and what will we try instead?
Courage grows through small, safe, rehearsed steps, with a trusted adult nearby.
Family question: What is one brave step each of us will take this week?
Helping well starts with listening. Children who design help around real needs learn empathy in action.
Family question: Who could our family help this month, and what do they really need?
Looking back at first tries and improvements builds lasting confidence and a habit of reflection.
Family question: What is the biggest way you’ve grown since we started these values?
📘 Included with the course
The Pilot Kit.
Everything to run it, in one PDF per level.
Each level’s kit comes with that level’s course. The Journey Map and Replay Card are free for everyone.
- Coach guide, session plan and age adaptations
- Assessment rubric: choice, planning, revision, collaboration, reflection
- Journey Map coloring page and the Replay Card
- Eleven value pages with student records, project page and family prompts
Unlocks after all eleven values, your project and your chosen practice.
🌍 Built for global reach
Affordable. Adaptable. Worth coming back to.
Designed so any coach, in any community, can run it with paper and pencils, in their own language, with their own local stories.
Every value runs with printed pages, pencils and local materials.
Children show learning in the way that works for them.
Coaches swap in stories, names and places from their own community.
No expensive devices needed. The website is optional.
A weekly family prompt brings the lesson home.
Two adults present, consent before photos, private reflections stay private.
Run a pilot with us.
We are testing Confidence, Character & Leadership with varied groups of children and improving it from what they experience. Schools, libraries, community groups and families are welcome.
At a glance
How it works.
Eleven values on one journey, from confidence to character to leadership, with the Replay at the heart of every week, a meaningful project and a final Museum of Becoming.
Confidence and character grow through practice, not lectures: making choices, revising them and trying small brave, kind and useful actions.
Children in Grades 1–12, in five levels. Run by a coach, a teacher or a parent, in a classroom, a library, a community center or at home.
One value a week for eleven weeks, 30–75 minutes depending on age, plus one tiny practice at home each week.
Choose, receive new information, replay, practice. Record each value on paper or here, and earn a badge on your journey.
Disclaimer: For informational and educational purposes only. Global Yuva Confidence, Character & Leadership is original Global Yuva content in a pilot stage; it is not a clinical, therapeutic or accredited program, and no outcomes are guaranteed. Brave steps must always be safe and supervised by a trusted adult. Design references: PBLWorks: Gold Standard Project Design Elements · CAST: Universal Design for Learning. These references inform the design principles; they have not evaluated or endorsed this Global Yuva course. Researchers and programs mentioned are cited as inspiration only, with no affiliation. Progress is saved in this browser, and in your Global Yuva account when you are signed in. PDFs are created on your device.