The Hero's Journey | 8-Week Mixed-Age Community Program (Ages 10–16)

An eight-week adventure in confidence, connection, resilience and personal growth!

The Hero's Journey is an interactive personal development program created for facilitators working with children aged 10–16 across different ages, abilities and confidence levels.

Through meaningful discussions, engaging activities, real-life scenarios and cooperative challenges, participants explore what it means to show courage, support others, overcome setbacks and continue growing.

The program is built around the idea that everyone has their own Hero's Journey — and everyone can make positive choices along the way.

What's included?

• 113-slide educator PowerPoint with guided lessons, discussion scenarios, suggested responses and practical challenges.
• 32-page printable student workbook with opportunities for personal reflection, goal-setting, drawing and writing.
• 11-page Mixed-Age Community Program Facilitator Guide with instructions, activity adaptations and inclusive participation suggestions.
• Start Here guide, removable completion certificate within the workbook and purchaser licence.

Eight weeks of learning

Self-Awareness • Courage • Self-Belief • Wisdom • Friendship & Teamwork • Resilience • Growth • Purpose

Practical activities include:

• The Courage Challenge
• Flip the Script
• Back-to-Back Drawing
• Friendship and teamwork challenges
• The Impossible Mission
• My Hero's Journey Map
• The final Hero Team Mission

Designed for flexible group delivery

The program provides opportunities for participants to contribute through discussion, drawing, writing and practical challenges.

Facilitators can adjust difficulty, group sizes and participation methods to help accommodate different abilities and confidence levels.

Licence: One purchasing program facilitator may use the resource with participants in the program they directly lead, including printing workbooks for enrolled participants. Sharing original digital files with other facilitators or organisations, public distribution and resale are not included.

Digital download only. Linked third-party movie clips are optional; video files and screening rights are not included.

Created by Rowan Connell | Move, Connect & Thrive