Yesenia P

Youth Development Program "Go Beyond"

Go Beyond is a youth development program created to empower young people to acquire leadership and professional skills in order to go beyond their limits. Go Beyond foundation was started in June, 2011 as youth development program by five professionals with aspiring aims to improve leaderships skills among youth, increase their competitiveness in the labor market, encourage more successful integration in the entrepreneurial environment and improve the quality of informal education in Latvia. We work with young people aged 18 to 23 who have willingness to dedicate their time to personal development and are mature enough to dig into their values and beliefs, vocation and life balance, combining it with acquisition of new professional skills. Go Beyond program lasts for 10 months and consists of three major steps: four day personal development seminar, involvement in a social team project and carrying out an individual project. Throughout the whole program Go Beyond helps to enrich each individual's experience by providing monthly individual coaching, group coaching and individual mentoring based on the different projects participants work on, monthly workshops, open guest lectures, meetings with Go Beyond board and informal activities.