Tuesday's Workshops
Public Speaking and
Self Expression
with
Rachel Glauser
BE YOUR BEST SELF
WHAT IS THE BE YOUR BEST SELF PROGRAM?
The Be Your Best Self program allows Distinguished Young Women participants to reach out and encourage young people nationwide to make a commitment to being their best selves in areas such as: academics, physical fitness, morality, character, and social and civic participation. Embracing the BYBS message empowers young people with valuable tools to face the challenges of negative peer pressure. Drawing on their own personal experiences, Distinguished Young Women program participants deliver helpful messages emphasizing the importance of setting goals and striving to reach them.
5 Elements of the Be Your Best Self Program
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Be Healthy – Be physically fit and drug free.
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Be Involved – Serve your community.
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Be Studious – Stay in school.
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Be Ambitious – Set and achieve goals.
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Be Responsible – Live by moral and ethical principles.
BE YOUR BEST SELF WITH THE DISTINGUISHED YOUNG WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA PROGRAM
Each year at the DYW of California Program holds various Be Your Best Self and Life Skills Workshops to help participants learn essential life skills for the future and be their best selves, while also allowing them to network with professionals and provide community outreach in the process! The Be Your Best Self program prepares participants for the future and also provides our participants with an outlet to reach out and impact the lives of others . Our goal is to not only have each participant live the principles of BYBS throughout their lives and but to also have them share their experiences, and teach the BYBS message to youth in their communities. In addition to the community out reach done during the program week, Distinguished Young Women of California also holds a Be Your Best Self Bootcamp that partners past participants with local Girl Scouts to help them earn their Be Your Best Self Badge! Below are examples of past Be Your Best Self and Lifeskills workshops speakers, followed by photos from various workshops and out reach events!
Class of 2022 Be Your Best Self & Life Skills Workshop Speakers
Class of 2021 Be Your Best Self & Life Skills Workshop Speakers
Class of 2020 Be Your Best Self & Life Skills Workshop Speakers
BE DISTINGUISHED
BE AMBITIOUS
BE INVOLVED
BE STUDIOUS
BE RESPONSIBLE
BE HEALTHY
National BYBS Week – Every April
Distinguished Young Women held the tenth annual National Be Your Best Self Week in April of 2021. This nationwide outreach effort engages all program participants to spread the Be Your Best Self message across the country. During National BYBSWeek, Distinguished Young Women participants across the country give BYBS presentations to Boys & Girls Clubs, Girl Scouts and other organizations, sharing the program in fun and creative ways. They distribute BYBS Pledge Cards following their presentations, allowing each young person who hears the BYBS message to commit to living by the BYBS principles .
Check out how to BE YOUR BEST SELF with the Distinguished Young Woman of America 2014 Brook Rucker.
How will you change the world? Find out with Kennedy Miller, Distinguished Young Woman of North Carolina for 2018.
Join Aaryan Morrison the Distinguished Young Woman of America for 2018 as she learns lessons from Congress.
Watching yourself can be hard. Learn to rewatch yourself and learn from it, with Gianna Rucki, the Distinguished Young Woman of Minnesota for 2018!
Rachel Brady is the Distinguished Young Woman of South Dakota for 2019. Sit down with Rachel as she talks about the the gift that keeps giving, Distinguished Young Women!
Making friends in college with Lidia Balanovich, the Distinguished Young Woman of New Hampshire for 2018!
Being Distinguished: Beauty comes from our Spirit! with Sierra Knight, the Distinguished Young Woman
of Texas for 2018!
Being Distinguished: Loving your Curls with Aaryan Morrison the Distinguished Young Woman of America
for 2018!
Watch this #BeDistinguished Vlog from Mina Liang, DYW of MA 2019 about being thankful as she heads into the 2019 holiday season.
Hear about the importance of giving back with Kennedy Miller, the Distinguished Young Woman of North Carolina for 2018!
Learn more about the influence of music and female artists, with Dora Guo, the Distinguished Young Woman of America for 2019!
American Sign Language
with Isabelle Pope, the Distinguished Young Woman of Alaska for 2018!
Being Distinguished abroad with Jessica Yan, the Distinguished Young Woman of Arizona for 2018.