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    U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden
    U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden
    U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden
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    U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden

    By Debra J. Slover

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    Using the classic teaching tools of fable and metaphor, Debra Slover has created a sweetly illustrated book that empowers children, steers them toward positive patterning, and shows each child how to plant and nurture the seeds of good leadership while ridding their metaphorical gardens of the "weeds" (negative qualities that can harm children's self-esteem).

    The main character, a sheep named Hugh, suffers from low self-esteem, stemming from an environment where he was often criticized and never appreciated. When he stumbles into Leadership Farm, where a more open and loving way of being is the norm, he learns from human farm staffers Leda and Aristotle, as well as other animals like Annabelle the dog, Blossom the cow, and Robert the rooster, how to develop his own leadership qualities, and how to tend his own Leadership Garden.

    A central mnemonic is the acronym, U.N.I.Q.U.E.: Understanding, Nurturing, Inventive, Quality, Unstoppable, Expression. Taking one letter at a time, Slover walks the reader through creating and encouraging the life-affirming, esteem-building, leadership skills characteristic, and harnessing the six qualities together to form a "Leadership Garden Legacy" based on mutual respect, cooperation, teamwork, and other values. Kids who've been bullied may respond especially well.

    U.N.I.Q.U.E. Kids is designed as a learning aid with the active participation of grownups who can read the book with a child (8-12) and provide mentoring and reinforcement in its concepts. Grandparents particularly enjoy using the book as a way to take an active role in developing their grandchildren's leadership potential.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebra J. Slover
    Release dateMar 22, 2011
    ISBN9780978679873
    U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden
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    Debra J. Slover

    Overcoming the obstacle of her own dysfunctional birth family, Debra Slover has been not only teaching leadership but also exercising it as well—for 27 years. She's coordinated two national and 18 statewide conferences, trained over 2000 teens as trainers, designed and presented programs to over 40,000 people, and directed 38 youth leadership camps and four advisor training institutes.Debra has personally raised over $3,200,000 in grant funding through 26 separate grants, and administered total funding of $3,879,000 for the agency she directed for 18 years. She's worked extensively with federal, state, and local government agencies, law enforcement, civic organizations, and the media. She's been Board President and Vice President of the National Association of Teen Institutes, chaired two different statewide programs on driver safety, successfully managed a long-term state funding campaign for her program, and has served as an expert/reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Juvenile Justice, and several other organizations.A graduate of Oregon State University, Debra began her career in teaching...later became director of a statewide organization promoting student responsibility around driving, alcohol abuse, and other wellness issues...and then began her own consulting, training, and publishing firm, Leadership Garden Enterprises LLC. As an author and blogger, she has written several books, a book chapter for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and numerous articles in both professional and general-interest publications. A mother to two biological and three blended-family children, and grandmother of six, she lives with her husband in Albany, Oregon.

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      U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS - Debra J. Slover

      Copyright © 2009 by Debra J. Slover

      Published by: Leader Garden Press

      P.O. Box 841 Albany, OR 97321

      www.leadergardenpress.com Email: info@leadergardenpress.com

      Illustrations: Darlene Warner Cover and interior design: 1106 Design Editorial advisor: Margot Finke

      Smashwords Edition 2011

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means—graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval systems—without the written permission of the publisher.

      The author does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of physical, emotional, or medical therapy without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of an educational and general nature. In the event you use any of the information in this book, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

      Leader Garden Press is a division of Leadership Garden® Enterprises, LLC. Our vision is a thriving worldwide Leadership Garden Legacy. Our goal is to seed and nurture 11 million Leadership Gardens by 11/11/11. To learn more, visit: www.leadershipgardenlegacy.com

      Leadership Garden® is a registered trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The trademark identifies Leadership Garden® as a brand name and may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not provided by Leadership Garden® Enterprises, LLC, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Leadership Garden® Enterprises, LLC.

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2009903965

      ISBN: 978-0-9786798-5-9 First Edition Manufactured in the U.S.A.

      For information about educational discounts, bulk purchases, sales promotions or premiums, please contact special sales at:

      order@leadergardenpress.com

      LEADERSHIP GARDEN® LEGACY

      Every person is a unique seed

      in the world’s garden.

      Each seed grows a leader

      from which greatness can blossom.

      Imagine the future of our planet

      if we nurture each leader

      to sprout greatness.

      —Debra J. Slover

      Dedicated to my amazing grandchildren:

      Kane, Nick, Hannah, Makenna, and Parker

      TABLE of CONTENTS

      Introduction – Message to Adults

      Part One

      Welcome to the Leadership Farm

      1 – Leadership Garden

      2 – Planting a Leadership Garden

      Part Two

      The U.N.I.Q.U.E. Tour Begins

      3 – Understanding Field

      4 – Nurturing Meadow

      5 – Inventive Roost

      6 – Quality Yard

      7 – Unstoppable Pasture

      8 – Expression Pen

      The End

      INTRODUCTION

      Message to Adults:

      U.N.I.Q.U.E. KIDS: Growing My Leadership Garden will help you nurture and grow the unique leader within each child.

      Written for 8–12 year-olds, the story is a fable of the lost sheep, Hugh. Representing the human heart, mind, and spirit, he wanders onto the Leadership Farm. There, he learns how to become a courageous leader with a unique purpose and aim. He discovers that all plants have a primary shoot called a leader, which eventually blooms. Like plants, each child is a leader waiting to blossom.

      This book is an adaptation of the adult book and audio book U.N.I.Q.U.E.: Growing the Leader Within, and companion workbook called The Leadership Garden Guidebook: Cultivating organic experiences, actions, and results that empower you and those around you.

      Each chapter’s human message is contained in the lesson boxes and the discussion questions at the end. It is an ideal book to be read aloud and discussed over eight sessions at home, in school, or in youth groups.

      In the human garden, leadership development begins at home, and extends throughout a child’s school years. Though told as a fable, the lessons contained are real.

      Love is at the heart of Leadership Gardens that use these six leader-friendly gardening practices:

      • Be nonjudgmental

      • Do not enable

      • Use empathy

      • Prune gossip

      • Eliminate blame

      • Eradicate victimization

      Imagine a world where these are the norm. These practices are the core of the Leadership Garden Legacy that this book supports. Our goal is to seed and nurture 11 million Leadership Gardens by 11/11/11. In doing so, we hope to help make the world a better place to grow, work, and play.

      You may obtain copies of the teacher’s guide and activity sheets that will help reinforce the lessons of this book by visiting: www.leadershipgardenlegacy.com

      LEADERSHIP GARDEN

      Early one spring morning, Leda—a kind and passionate gardener—sat on her back porch sipping tea. A cool breeze blew through her hair. I love this season. It is a time of hope and growth.

      Leda

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