LICENSED DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Power On
Resilience and Skills Development Program
The POWER ON program addresses the need to build mental resilience in children and adolescents, countering issues such as loneliness, a lack of agency, and social detachment.
The program's effectiveness is based on a resource-oriented approach, focusing on discovering needs and developing social and interpersonal skills, rather than diagnosing and eliminating problems.
What does the program offer participants?
Methodological foundation
Program pillars
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- Reclaiming agency – a sense of influence over one's own reactions and actions.
- Building community and relationships – in contact with peers and adult role models.
- Development through play – lightness and humor facilitate tension regulation and open conversation about important matters.
- Intergenerational cooperation – exchanging experiences and strengthening relationships within the community.
- POWER OFF – POWER ON – working on emotions, awareness, and agency, building a sense of power and a narrative of "I have influence, I can, I am capable."
- SFT – Solution-Focused Therapy – focusing on resources and exceptions, small steps, and the preferred future.
- Skillful Group (Skillful Academy) – a structured model of group work on specific skills, with a plan of small steps and the celebration of successes.
- Systemic approach – the program is not just a single workshop. It includes diagnosis, staff training, work with youth, parent support, supervision, evaluation, and empowerment events.
Agency and influence
The core of the program. Children learn to make decisions, act independently, take responsibility, and persistently pursue goals.
Resilience and regulation
The competence of internal stability. It teaches stress management, emotional regulation, and how to act in difficult situations.
Community – relationships and cooperation
Social competence. It develops communication, cooperation, conflict resolution, and the building of safe relationships.
Direction of development and values
Identity competence. It helps in self-discovery, understanding one's own values, and using technology consciously.
Program principle: each module develops at least one, and usually several, pillars simultaneously – agency provides movement, resilience provides stability, community provides support, and direction provides meaning. The result? A lasting change in the young person's thinking, behavior, and functioning.
The program is implemented through workshops, integration activities, and developmental cycles, where the growth of socio-emotional competencies is combined with practice, collaboration, and the joy of taking action.
Structure of the licensing program
Stage 1
Diagnosis and program launch
Stage 2
Staff training
Stage 3
Local implementation
Opening event
Stage 4
POWER ON Workshops
Stage 5
Supervision, consultations, and Foundation support
Local diagnosis (in a given city | school) allows for the precise tailoring of activities to the real needs of participants and the specific environment.
The program is preventive and developmental in nature—it focuses on strengthening competencies, mental resilience, and a sense of agency, teaching concrete skills and building a culture of cooperation rather than focusing on deficits.
TRAINER competency foundation:
Kids’ Skills method (individual work) and Skillful Group method (group work), development of personal and interpersonal competencies, practitioner and educator certificates.
POWER ON Trainer (30h): a level equipping the trainer with work frameworks, materials, lesson plans, group diagnostic procedures, and the POWER ON Trainer certificate.
Program Coordinator: advanced training – conducting trainer workshops in a given city and providing local consultations.
The opening event marks the launch of subsequent editions of the program.
It initiates the transition from "OFF" to "ON," building a shared narrative of change, a sense of community, and participant agency.
The Foundation provides a ready-to-use event scenario that can be adapted to local concepts and needs—the event can take the form of a conference or an inspiring kickoff meeting for youth.
LEVEL ONE
POWER OFF - POWER ON workshop cycle
Workshops are conducted using the Skillful Group method, where the group itself chooses the goal and the skill they want to work on. The trainer has the ability to access additional modules, selecting exercises that support the group's development while using a diagnostic tool—available under the license—that identifies both the strengths and areas for development of a given group.
Workshop structure:
Check-in – integration, goal, group contract
Narrative OFF – reflection on blocks, map of the present, working on exceptions
Narrative ON – vision of the future, resources, spaces of energy
Skillful Group – working on the chosen skill, small-step plan, benefit analysis.
Celebration
Additional modules:
Anxiety → Acceptance
Loneliness → Communication
Failure → Potential
Low self-esteem → My skills
Discouragement → Helping
Thoughts → Choice
Social pressure → Being yourself
Stress → Body and emotion regulation
Values → Life direction
Online → Offline
Courage → Change
Closing → Support
Me → We
Workshop outcome: creating a small-step plan, setting actions, identifying support people, a celebration plan, and ideas for passing the experience on to subsequent groups.
LEVEL TWO
Ambassadors of the Impossible workshop cycle
Advanced workshops for youth focusing on developing social change leaders, designing and implementing social actions, and co-organizing local events. The cycle involves creating a network of local youth leaders who support each other and initiate social activities.
Under the license, the Foundation provides ongoing methodological consultations and monitors work with groups and individual participants. This allows trainers to analyze the progress of sessions in real-time, adapt the process to the group's needs, optimize the development path, and inspire one another with their experience, co-creating the program in the spirit of the flexible and dynamic POWER ON model.
Licensing models
Program
What makes it stand out?
City – covers 5–15 institutions, with the option for joint staff training and an annual report summarizing the effects and progress of participants.
NGO – for organizations running youth programs, allowing for flexible adaptation of activities to local needs and the specifics of the group.
- Strengthens mental resilience,
- Builds social-emotional competencies,
- Provides training for staff,
- It operates systemically,
- It is based on the Solution-Focused Approach, the methods of Dr. Ben Furman, and the working models of the ULICA Foundation.
- It focuses on assets, not deficits.
As a leading developer and operator of renewable energy sources (RES), Neo Energy Group is deeply committed to sustainable development. The company also engages in social initiatives that not only promote the well-being of children and youth but also build their mental resilience—a protective shield that is a key element of their health and prosperity. By supporting the ULICA Foundation and its Center, NEG actively contributes to the development of ecopsychology and the ideas of Dr. Ben Furman. It also demonstrates that responsible business and sustainable development are not just about investing in technology, but also in people—especially the younger generation. The innovation embedded in Neo Energy Group's DNA is also evident in the Foundation's activities and the concept it promotes, which uses modern tools to rebuild and strengthen the mental resilience of children. As a result, children's problems are beginning to be viewed differently. They become processes of learning new skills that help overcome difficulties and initiate the process of desired change. The accessibility of these initiatives to local communities is further proof that Neo Energy Group understands and takes its social role very seriously, possessing the power to influence positive change. By supporting the ULICA Foundation, the company joins forces with those working for a better tomorrow, where every child—regardless of where they live—has the chance for healthy development in harmony with the world around them.
For any questions, please contact
Agata Gemser-Wrębiak
Director of the Dr. Ben Furman
Motivational and Preventive Center