Be prepared to open-up, share in safe-space and devote ten full days to the most important thing in your life – your future.
A way through a fast-changing world
As young people emerge from school, they face unprecedented challenges: a rapidly changing world where technology is making many traditional careers obsolete, where multiple career changes will be the norm and with environmental challenges and widespread mistrust in institutions and political leaders. Navigating these challenges will require creativity, flexibility, entrepreneurship and deep self-knowledge.
For thousands of years, cultures around the globe have recognised the importance of supporting individuals to transition safely from one life stage to another. The move from school to higher education or work is one of the most important of these and young people are mostly unsupported in this major life transition.
A journey of discovery
It may seem that everyone is an expert on what you should do with your life. The Yes Quest gives you time, space and support to discover who you truly are and what you really want for your life!
Connect to who you are
Through an inner and outer journey, discover who your really are, explore your talents, your values, hopes and dreams. Realise that the most rewarding life you can live, happens to be the one that most benefits the world – and fills you with satisfaction and energy. Claim your destiny now, and make a plan to live it tomorrow.
The inner journey takes you into a deep personal development experience. With skilled support, you will face your past, your fears and the ways you sabotage yourself. You will explore the treasures and talents within you and develop the confidence and commitment to fully express them in your life and work.
The outer journey is a three-day expedition into an acclaimed National Heritage rainforest. As well as being an adventure, this is an opportunity to integrate and review the powerful experiences of your first few days at the Quest.
Plan a course of action
The crazy, amazing truth is this – once you have fully explored who you are, you will know what that person wants to do! Then you can create a vision for your life and you will be able to create a two-step plan to get you there. Step One is a Plan for your Gap Year, and Step Two is a Plan for your Life
GAP YEAR QUEST – DAY BY DAY
So, what actually happens on this Quest…
from the first day to the last?
Day 1
Arrival at the venue in Northern NSW. Settle in. Dinner. Meet the Facilitators and the other Participants. Prepare for and participate in Opening Ceremony. I have already crossed a boundary, joined a tribe, entered the Quest space and made a commitment.
Day 2
What is my starting point? All the experiences that have brought me to where I am today. My family, upbringing, education, beliefs, denials, rebellions, successes and failures. The better I understand my starting point, the more likely I am to reach my destination. I have discovered all this through sharing, movement, drawing and games. Wow.
Day 3
I have now totally “unpacked” who I am… like taking a bike apart and laying all the pieces side by side. And I know which parts came from where… and which I am going to keep and which I choose to let go!
Day 4
The amazing wisdom of the group – they see qualities in me I didn’t know I had. Now I can let go of the stories others told about me and that I believed. I now recognise the stories I told myself and the stories that others told about me. But, they are not me!
Day 5
Today the vision for my life begins to emerge… I get to have one-on-one conversations with the facilitators which help me to really step into and claim a vision for my life. I guess it was there all along, but now I feel like I am connected to it, it feels real… it feels like it’s truly MINE!
Day 6
As I share my vision with the group, I know for sure that it is real and it is mine alone. My Gap Year plan falls into place… all the experiences I will have… what I will learn and do. My roadmap to the life I want to live exists… because I made it!
Day 7
Today we also realise that returning home (as someone slightly different) could pose problems… and we make plans to deal with them. We find out today just how we stop ourselves reaching our goals. Surely that can’t be true of everyone. But each of us has pin-pointed our personal self-sabotage (it seems everyone has one). Now I have a strategy to deal with it.
The Day After
I know who I am and where I am going; I am inspired, hopeful, confident, clear and purposeful.
The journey won’t be straight forward, but I know I have the support of the Quest facilitators and my new friends (my tribe!) to help keep me on track. I am happy, committed, energised, alive and can’t wait to launch my new life!
For costs, dates and details of your Quest, click here.
Make your Gap Year the year that changed your life. There are moments that can change our lives - they are easy to miss. Don’t miss this one. It’s your finger on the button. Press it now.
"What came out of the Quest for me was to do fashion. I moved to London and studied fashion design and technology for four years. I am currently the Program Director of the fashion design department at an international design college in Jakarta and planning to focus now on my own label.”
— Audrey Sillem, Netherlands
Book your Quest now
and change your life.
There are moments that can change our lives… they are easy to miss. Don’t miss this one. It’s your finger on the button.
Press it now.
