The Mission Of Parkour East Texas: Partnering with Parents in Raising Unusually Confident and Humble Leaders (Part 2)

Part 1 of our mission at Parkour East Texas to partner with parents in raising unusually confident and humble leaders is teaching character development lessons through movement and a fun environment which feels like play to youth.

Part 2 of this mission is coming alongside parents in hands on leadership training for their youth. Once students are in Level 3 or higher they are invited to participate in our Rise-N-Lead Internship program. This program is about way more than learning how to be a coach. We use learning how to coach as an opportunity to teach leadership. We use stepping out of comfort zones and leading others as an opportunity to build deeper confidence. We use learning how to pull out the best in the students you are coaching as an intern as an opportunity to learn to think about others and develop critical thinkings skills.

Our internship helps prepare youth to be successful in school and after school in whatever field they choose to go into. The skills we teach about confidence, humility with incredible skill, focus, 3 step thinking, critical thinking skills, posture, creating an atmosphere and leadership are something our interns can take into trade school, college, entrepreneurship, parenthood and whatever they choose to do in life.

Our internship is about becoming the best version of ourself we can be. We use a focus on coaching parkour to dive deep into this. It's a lot easier to learn a lesson about yourself and be made aware of an area to improve on when it's about coaching a lesson and helping someone else get better at parkour. We can dive deep into personal development with our interns because of this focus. However, the beauty of our program is once an intern learns a lesson or area to improve coaching wise, they are now aware of the area and can start bringing awareness to other areas of life they are doing the same thing. This helps them take personal responsibility for personal development in other areas of life that might be too close to the heart to receive feedback and instructive criticism on from someone else. In the internship we get to do the fun thing, dive into coaching better. Then those lessons, brain pathways that are formed, and awarenesses that are created in the interns mind can then do the deeper work at home, school, and any activity they are involved in.