LUNCH GROUP

Voyager Youth Program, in collaboration with Juvenile Diversion of Ouray County offers a monthly “Lunch Group” for 7 th and 8 th grade boys and girls. The objective of Lunch Group is to instill self-awareness, self-esteem and self-respect among the students.

The boys and girls groups meet separately, and are facilitated by adult professionals.

While the first meeting is voluntary, if a participant chooses to continue with Lunch Group they are expected to attend all meetings from that time on, unless the student has a valid excuse. Each participant must have a permission slip signed by their parent/guardian in order to attend Lunch Group.

Meetings take place on school premises once per month during lunch time. If Lunch Group goes off campus permission slips will be sent home prior to that event. Lunches are provided by Voyager Youth Program, Juvenile Diversion of Ouray County, or donated by local businesses.

INTENTION OF LUNCH GROUP:

•  To provide a safe space to talk about the truth of one's life, and to help create a safe, caring space where others can talk about their truth without being judged or criticized.

•  To practice creating trust between students.

•  To provide an opportunity for students to experience that they are not alone

•  To provide a place where students can look deeply at their lives, their choices and the way they behave towards themselves and others in order to make conscious, self-loving and self determining choices.

•  To support critical thinking

•  To provide a place to discuss the effects of perceived historical, social, political, economic, cultural, environmental, psychological and spiritual realities in our lives.

•  To provide a place where participants can get feedback about the issues they face, if they want it.

•  To support the growth of healthy relationships.

•  To provide a place where students can share their lives openly and honestly with each other.

•  To provide a place adults and young people can share their wisdom and life experiences with each other.

•  To provide a place to practice interpersonal and group conflict resolution while exercising respect, patience, compassion, empathy, understanding and forgiveness for self and others.

•  To provide a place where “mistakes” can be discussed and worked through.

•  To promote understanding between people of different cultures, genders, generations and beliefs.

•  An opportunity to develop intuition, self-esteem and self-consciousness.

Click here to see Lunch Group Guidelines

Click here to see Lunch Group Permission Form