Parent
or Friend
Invitation to
Participate
At Passion Spark, participants engage in private groups with five other peers.
Enrollees may invite their parent(s), or a friend, to a separate home or zoom gathering.
A parent's love for their student is like no other. They care so much and want their student to enjoy a fulfilling career. For many parents this is a top goal in life right now.
You can see it in a parent's eyes when they talk with their student about the next steps after high school.
If a parent or other family member(s), or a friend, would like to participate (at no cost), and the Passion Spark enrollee agrees, separate meetings may take place at home, or with a free zoom link. Passion Spark provides an agenda and a curriculum to guide these 45-minute weekly family/friend gatherings.
A Passion Spark Retreat overview is shown at PassionSpark.org/leaders, and comments from past participants are at PassionSpark.org/testimonials.
During a Gathering, the enrolled participant and a family member, or friend, rotate who presents the scripted curriculum by passing-the-baton to each other when it's their turn to lead. Gatherings include sharing new content, pausing to write notes, and sharing thoughts with each other.
More than a weekly update about the Retreat, these separate gatherings open a new way for those close to participants to learn each others' ideas about education paths toward a fulfilling career.
A Family/Friend Agreement (below) describes the roles of each participant, and is to be signed by all participants. The purpose of the Agreement is to provide a mutually focused tangible step to confirm equal standing for all meeting participants. A PDF for printing the Agreement is below.
Family Agreement and Contact Form follow below Counselor's Letter
Family and Friend Agreement
for Passion Spark Family Gatherings
Family members and advocates sign below to agree as follows:
1. To maintain a kind and generous spirt throughout each gathering, and to give full attention to whomever is speaking at the moment.
2. To meet once a week for 45-minutes, for four weeks, on any day that works for all participants, after each of the participant's most recent online Retreat gathering.
3. To follow the Passion Spark Retreat Agenda and Curriculum that were developed for these gatherings.
4. To make every effort possible to be available for each meeting, and to be flexible when needing to reschedule. The initial time for the weekly meeting is _____________________
(Fill in the blank, for example, "Sundays at 11 AM").
5. Each participant to have their own paper, notepad, and pen so as to be able to write notes about questions, or creative ideas, while another person is speaking.
6. To remain open-minded, while respecting prior time commitments, to choose to allow the meeting to extend a bit longer when, unexpectedly, extra minutes may be useful.
7. To bring each meeting to a gracious and caring ending.
AGREED TO THE ABOVE:
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Student's Name (printed)
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Student's Signature Date
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Family Member or Friend Name (printed)
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Family Member or Friend Signature Date
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Family Member or Friend Name (printed)
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Family Member or Friend Signature Date