NAME OF PROJECT
3Q Youth Program
OBJECTIVE
Educate students to understand the human operating system and train them how to use it to achieve full potential.
PURPOSE
Improve education by supplementary training to raise academic performance and to develop neglected but essential life skills, work skills, and citizenship skills.
TYPE OF PROJECT
Workshop & Course
SUMMARY
This Program trains students how to use the full spectrum of dimensions of intelligence to raise performance and increase personal wellbeing.
Dimensions of Intelligence
Intelligence has more than one dimension. Intellectual Intelligence (IQ) and Emotional Intelligence (EQ) are about thought and emotion and Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) is about meaning and purpose.
3Q combines IQ and EQ with SQ, and as a result you instantly think better, feel better, relate better, and perform better. That’s because SQ gives you immediate access to the capabilities of your higher self (intuition, creativity, peace, joy, compassion, integrity, love, wisdom, top performance).
Historically
Historically, the education system has been focused primarily on developing IQ, or intellectual intelligence. IQ manages facts and information, using logic and rational analysis to make decisions. Less time and attention is given in schools to developing EQ skills. EQ is emotional intelligence, which is necessary to feel and regulate one’s emotions, while being sensitive to the feelings of others.
Both IQ and EQ are important, but they are not sufficient in themselves to maintain top performance, ensure personal wellbeing, and provide enduring fulfilment. The next dimension of intelligence is also necessary, which is SQ, or spiritual intelligence.
SQ is an innate dimension of intelligence that everyone possesses. Spiritual intelligence is not religious. SQ depends not on belief but on direct personal experience beyond the ego. We use SQ in order to:
· find meaning and purpose
· maintain emotional balance
. sustain mental health
· feel connection to the community
. perform at our best
· attain full potential
· find enduring fulfilment
Now and For the Future
Some schools are now beginning to incorporate training in SQ skills, with the introduction of mindfulness and other forms of meditation into the school curriculum. This trend is to be applauded. 3Q programs offer the next generation of training in the form of Applied SQ Skills.
The Need for SQ Skills
1. MEANING & PURPOSE
Teenagers have a strong need to understand themselves and understand life. But they no longer have “ready-made” answers to questions of meaning and purpose, because traditional sources of meaning and purpose (mainsteam religion and mainstream culture) no longer offer convincing answers. Therefore, it is vital that teenagers have alternative tools for finding meaning and purpose. Consequently young people need access to the full spectrum of their intelligence: not just their intellectual and emotional intelligence but also their meaning-making intelligence, their SQ.
2. SELF-ESTEEM
The ego‘s self-esteem is fragile and unreliable, because it depends on changing circumstances and passing states of mind and emotion. But your true self-esteem, based on your SQ, is constant, secure and complete, because it depends on the native qualities of your true self. SQ skills therefore strengthen self-esteem.
3. SELF-CONFIDENCE
SQ is free of the ego’s self-doubt and self-importance, and has instant access to the calm confidence of the true self. Therefore SQ, and not an ego-based self-image, is the real basis for reliable and enduring self-confidence
4. EMPATHY
Empathy is a skill of emotional intelligence that represents the hope for the future of the world. But EQ can’t sustain empathy for long without access to the inexhaustible source of loving kindness that can only be found beyond the ego. Consequently, without SQ as the foundation, empathy soon burns out, or finds only selective application to a limited circle of family, friends, and associates, and perhaps extending to ethnic group or nation, but excluding those outside of a restricted circle of care. SQ is therefore necessary to replenish empathy and extend it to all without discrimination.
5. RELATIONSHIPS
Our brains are wired for love and connection but the ego rewires them for fear and protection. That’s why healthy and harmonious relationships are difficult unless you shift beyond ego. SQ skills are therefore needed to meet the challenges involved in all relationships, especially close personal relationships .
6. IMPROVE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
Academic success and achievement is not merely a matter of IQ. Its also necessary to use EQ and SQ for top performance in academic subjects (as in all other activities whether academic or not).
7. FULL POTENTIAL
In order to attain their full potential, teenagers need access to the full spectrum of dimensions of their intelligence.
8. SOCIAL CHALLENGES
SQ boosts self-esteem and self-confidence, and increases emotional intelligence, which makes it easier to meet challenging new social situations that are a normal part of growing up.
9. EXAM STRESS
When you use the full spectrum of dimensions of your intelligence you can pre-empt stress before it happens, rather than just react to stress after it happens. SQ skills therefore help to reduce the stress of exams.
10. ANXIETY
SQ connects to the source of peace and equanimity which is free of fear and worry. The more SQ, the less anxiety. Consistent use of SQ over time rewires the brain by a process of neuroplasticity and results in resetting anxiety to a lower level or eliminating anxiety altogether.
11. MENTAL HEALTH
The statistics on teenage depression, anxiety, drug addiction, and suicide have all increased in recent decades. These statistics show a lack of SQ experience and values. Access to the full spectrum of intelligence is evidently protective of mental health. This is not surprising. Everything generally works better when all parts operate together. It’s the same with our dimensions of intelligence. Preventative Mental Health programs for teenagers are therefore recommended to include training in SQ in order to develop and balance all dimensions of intelligence for optimal mental health.
12. REDUCE BULLYING
SQ skills reduce anti-social behaviour and bullying in teenagers and adults (at school and later in the workplace).
13. REDUCE DRUG ADDICTION
SQ fosters social connections and reduces the need for substitutes for positive social connections, such as recreational drug use. Training in SQ skills is therefore protective against drug addiction.
14. REDUCE SUICIDE RISK
SQ feels beyond immediate emotional reactions and connects to the deeper inherent reality which is life-sustaining. The experience of SQ is therefore protective against self-harm. Consequently, training in SQ helps to reduce the risk of suicide.
15. PROPAGANDA-PROOF
In the absence of a life-positive, fulfilling, and credible source of meaning and purpose, young people are vulnerable to the propaganda of violent political extremism and religious bigotry, in search of the meaning and purpose that is missing in their lives.
16. IMPORTANT WORK SKILLS
SQ skills are increasingly necessary in the workplace today, which schools are preparing students to enter. Students need training during school years in the “whole brain” skills required to thrive in the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) conditions of the new world of work.
17. IMPORTANT LIFE SKILLS
SQ skills are necessary during school and after school and throughout the whole of life. SQ is required for achieving full potential and a life of meaning, purpose and fulfilment.
18. MATURITY
SQ capabilities are necessary for human maturity. Responding free of ego is the essence of responsibility.
19. PARENTING
SQ is an important part of parenting skills. Selfless love is a basic requirement of caring for children.
20. CITIZENSHIP
SQ skills are needed to participate in a democracy. Critical thinking is necessary to discern truth from falsehood.
21. HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION
SQ skills are needed at a collective level in order to raise the standards of accountability in collective governance. Collective SQ is the foundation and guarantee of a society free of tyranny.
22. SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
The lack of collective SQ retards social development. Too many competing egos destroy collective benefits.
23. COOPERATION & TOLERANCE
High collective SQ creates cooperation and tolerance between people at the interpersonal level, and between different groups in society, and between different cultures, religions, and nations.
24. CULTURAL EVOLUTION
Widespread adoption of spiritual intelligence as a personal code of conduct raises the standard of accountability in collective governance in response to public demand. When standards in governments and corporations are based on spiritual intelligence, the energy of love will turn into a social and political force, as never before in history. The inclusion of training in spiritual intelligence in the school curriculum therefore heralds a new era of social justice and human rights, which are the foundations of shared prosperity and peace.
SQ Education at School
If SQ skills are not taught at school, it is too late for many people. They may not get the opportunity to learn SQ skills later. They will miss out on the opportunity to develop to their full potential and to contribute their gifts for everyone’s benefit. Therefore SQ skills need to be taught at school.
Optimal Education
Current education policy prioritises training in IQ at the expense of training in EQ and SQ. This imbalance is to the detriment of students’ wellbeing and represents a loss for society as a whole in terms of unrealised potential. Optimal education develops all dimensions of intelligence. This imbalance needs to be remedied by supplementary programs such as 3Q, in order to increase the proportion of training in EQ and SQ, and thus balance all dimensions of intelligence for optimal personal and collective benefits.
Secular Methodology
We need to offer SQ training in secular non-religious terms that any young person from any family background can accept and use and discuss at home with their parents, who may be from any tradition including Christian, Buddhist, Islamic, Atheist, Jewish, Hindu etc. Therefore, we must teach a secular science-based means of access to SQ (such as 3Q) to enable all to benefit.
Scientific Foundations
The scientific evidence for spiritual intelligence is based on a synthesis of findings from related fields of research, combining cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, transpersonal psychology, and neuroscience.
Applied Spiritual Intelligence
A unique advantage of the 3Q Method is that it teaches not only how to activate SQ but also how to apply SQ in the present moment according to the circumstances. Other forms of SQ training (such as traditional forms of meditation) do the former but not the latter. This is why 3Q training is described as Applied SQ.
Fast-Track Method
3Q training uses a simple direct method that bypasses the usual reactions and distractions and creates instant access to spiritual intelligence, which in turn instantly magnifies emotional intelligence as a result of the 3Q Cascade Effect.
3Q Training
By combining all three principal dimensions of intelligence, 3Q Training balances IQ and EQ and SQ, which provides on the spot access to full potential, and enables top performance.
3Q Youth Program
The 3Q Youth Program is designed to teach 3Q skills to teenagers and young adults.