Hello and welcome to my PELP subdomain!
PELP stands for the Presidential Emerging Leaders Program at the University of Mary Washington. It is a one-year program that helps students cultivate real-world leadership techniques to use both on campus and after graduation. Its four goals are involvement, self-actualization, strategic thinking, and wellness.
Students develop their skills and work towards these goals in a variety of ways:
- Twice-monthly meetings where we participate in activities and discussions in order to realize our leadership style and when to implement different methods (leading from behind, autocratic vs. democratic leadership, laissez-faire leading, etc.)
- Lead Mary Wash Workshops that focus on specific skills such as confident body language, public speaking, quick-thinking, mindfulness and avoiding burnout, collaboration with a team, and self-reflection.
- Fall and Spring Passports. These are check-lists of sorts for the fall and spring semester that challenge students to get involved on campus and step out of our comfort zone. We must complete a minimum of two activities in each of the four columns.