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July Teens Retreat 2018

by Amanda | Aug 17, 2018 | Blog, Courses, Parents, Teens | 0 Comments

How does spending a week in a beach house on the Sunshine Coast sound? Well that’s exactly what we got to do in the July school holidays with a group of incredible teens from all over Australia and New Zealand. For the second year running we have held our Personal...

#TheNewSuperheroes – Amelia Telford

by Amanda | Jul 26, 2018 | Blog, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

The 2015 Young Conservationist of the Year, has created an environmental network that has given a voice to Aboriginal youth. Amelia Telford, a young Aboriginal and South Sea Islander woman from Bundjalung country is the National Co-Director of the Seed Indigenous...

#TheNewSuperheroes – Molly Steer

by Amanda | Jul 26, 2018 | Blog, Parents, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

Meet Molly Steer, the ten-year-old fighting to save the Great Barrier Reef marine life. Cairns girl Molly Steer has been running her Straw No More campaign for about a year and has already convinced more than 90 schools in Australia and overseas to do away with...

#TheNewSuperheroes – Bassam Maaliki

by Amanda | Jul 17, 2018 | Blog, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

Meet Bassam Maaliki, 15, refugee advocate and an inspired young individual changing the world! At a mere 13 years old, Bassam Maaliki created a campaign called #uBelong. #uBelong was dedicated to ensuring that all refugees and migrants – no matter their background and...

#TheNewSuperheroes – Macinley Butson

by Amanda | Jul 8, 2018 | Blog, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

At just 17 years old, Macinley Butson has been named 2018 NSW Young Australian of the Year, National Youth Ambassador for Green Cross Australia and became the first ever Australian to win the INTEL International Science and Engineering fair in 67 years! Each year more...

#TheNewSuperheroes – Emma Gonzalez

by Amanda | Jul 2, 2018 | Blog, Teens, thenewsuperheroes | 0 Comments

Emma Gonzalez led the life of a typical 18-year-old American senior high school student. But this very quickly changed as of February 2018. After surviving the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, Emma delivered a powerful 11 minute speech at an...

Podcast Episode 13 – Stacey Nelson

by Amanda | May 24, 2018 | Blog, Parents, Podcast, Youth Mentors | 0 Comments

Today I’m excited to introduce you to Stacey Nelson, a yoga teacher with over 10 years experience teaching kids and teens through her own programs, in schools, working as a yoga therapist in a hospital, creating video content for Food Matters TV and running a kids and...

What’s Good About Teens?

by Amanda | Feb 20, 2018 | Blog, Parents | 0 Comments

I love being around teenagers. They have an energy and joy that’s contagious. When you can get past the drama, you can see the teenager’s wonderful attributes and qualities, many of which we have lost as adults. Yes, teens can be emotionally reactive but...

Youth Mentor Training going global!

by Amanda | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog, Youth Mentors | 0 Comments

Youth Mentor Training goes global! We've just started another round of Youth Mentor Training here at Shine From Within and it's our most diverse group yet! As it's an online course for anyone wanting to work with teens, develop their own programs and support youth...

July 2017 teen course fun!

by Amanda | Aug 10, 2017 | Blog, Parents, Teens | 0 Comments

A week of fun in a beach house! What an amazing bunch of girls we had the pleasure of hanging with earlier in the month! Oh my goodness, they were just divine. The sweetest, funniest, kindest, most beautiful girls came to join us from all over Australia for our...