July 29 - August 2, 2015
Youth Creativity, Innovation & Sustainable Leadership Program
with Ritsumeikan and Kanazawa Izumigaoka High Schools
A workshop to explore the creative universe of young students for the benefit of environmental sustainability. Organized in collaboration with GPI US.

Venue: Stanford University

Students from Ritsumeikan and Kanazawa Izumigaoka High Schools visited Stanford and the Bay Area for a CSDGC Youth Leadership Development workshop. The 5-day workshop introduced sustainability as a platform for developing design thinking skills and discovering purpose through one's personal story and leadership experience.

Key elements of this workshop included:

• Discussion about sustainablity design thinking with Glenn Katz (Stanford)
• Discussion about how ideas hatch with Shivani Govil (SAP)
• Discussion about emotional intelligence and mindfulness with Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu (Stanford).
• Visits to the Stanford d.school, and the Cantor Arts Center - to learn about discovery and innovation.
• Discussions about identifying opportunities, emotional intelligence, instrinsic motivation and meaningful innovation for the youth context.
• Exercises in fast thinking, teamwork, feature-selectivity, positivity, and emotional intelligence.
• Project work to demonstrate a process of innovation and develop leadership insights.
• Mentoring by CSDGC interns.