Self Exploration, Focused on BEING an Agent of Change in the World:

• Find your passion for “Making a Difference” in your local and world community
• Explore how to bridge your interests in life with being a change agent
• Explore blockages keeping you from following your "calling”, and work to release these

Skill Building in “Yoga for Peace” and Yoga for Special Populations – an Overview

• Learn the theory and practice of “Yoga for Peace”
• Increase knowledge of the healing powers of Yoga
• Increase skills for Yoga with special populations and in special life situations

Leadership Skill Building for Becoming an Effective Change Agent in the World:

• Learn leadership skills to put own ideas into practice
• Learn effective communication skills, specific to creating Yoga programs in areas of need, etc.
• Explore fund raising opportunities to put ideas into action

Skill Building in Common Challenges in High Stress Situations and How Yoga Can Have a Significant Impact:

• Develop knowledge base of common issues related to trauma
• Heighten understanding of high stress life situations and examine how persons respond in these life situations (in such areas as: refugee camps, natural disasters, man-made disasters)
• Understand, if possible – a day in the lives of millions of persons living in poverty and hunger – and answer the question: “Can Yoga help?”

Program Development – for Special Project and YWB Portfolio (submit within 2 months following course)

• Learn necessary steps to creating humanitarian programs / initiatives / campaigns
• Learn about the UN Millennium Development Goals and how to establish programs around them (MDGs deal with issues of eradicating hunger and poverty, women empowerment, providing for health, education and a sustainable environment)
• Learn to create an initiative / program for realizing your vision for taking yoga into the world
• Create a YPB portfolio, to include those areas pertinent to your YWB work (see below)

Work with National and International Humanitarian Organizations:

• Learn about working with national and international agencies, joining teams of care givers and  first responders to help in disaster related situations, including working with Red Cross 
• Understand phases of emergency response and the role of YWB
• Become certified in emergency response areas(certification will be given during YWB class)
• Learn about working with Non Governmental Organizations (NGOS), in the field, who are helping to create a better world
• Examine national and international opportunities available for YWB graduates

Continue to Develop Skills in Yoga, Focused on “Inner Peace for Outer Peace”!!!

* NOTE: YWB Curriculum will evolve and adapt depending on need and interest