“…Before he starts, he will acknowledge the most important people in the room—you.”
Peter Ferguson has a unique approach to engagement. He creates a community where both adults and young people feel valued. His skill helps everyone feel comfortable joining the conversation, making connections, and understanding each other better. He emphasizes the importance of recognizing individuals and their experiences.
As an engaging storyteller, Ferguson mixes personal stories with data to make his points clear and relatable. He uses his own experiences to give practical advice. He shares valuable strategies for overcoming challenges and celebrating past and present successes.
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Relationships Matter
This frequently requested and updated keynote or workshop emphasizes the importance of relationships in various settings. Designed to be engaging, it is an excellent kick-off, mid-session, or closing event for professional, staff, or community development infusion at any time of year. Participants will engage in small and large group interactions, ensuring that they leave with practical insights into how the quality of relationships reflects our core values and impacts hope, resilience, and positive outcomes both now and in the future.
Objectives
- Understand the concept of relationships that matter as a "legacy check"
- Evaluate personal connections
- Identify values reflected in relationships
- Foster positive outcomes
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Bigger Than the Score
The final score often takes the spotlight in life, making us overlook the stories, emotions, and experiences that happen along the way. "Bigger Than the Score" captures this idea, showing that life's value comes from wins or losses and the moments that connect uplift, and inspire our personal growth.
We often miss how the final score—regardless of our desire—can build connections, change viewpoints, and create belonging beyond the end of a game. Each chance we get is not just a competition but a way to celebrate the human spirit in all its complexity, reminding us that the people we impact are more important than the result.
Essential for those groups seeking to...
Create community
Target skills necessary for positive outcomes
Prioritization of goals and action planning
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What's In Your Hand
An interactive, hands-on session formatted for reflection on how our and others' identity (intersectionality) holds various possibilities, potential, and significance. Whether as straightforward or as complex as our name, which we often use for an initial introduction to others, or our role, which gives us a professional label, the cards in our hand are a canvas of identity and factor into our inclusive principles. Each card in the deck reminds us of the power, challenges faced, opportunities, and threats we and others possess to craft our realities and shape our interactions.