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Category Archives: Empowerment

Sask in motion’s First Flash Mob!

posted by: Kenji category: Advocacy, Empowerment, Engagment, Leadership, Play, Sport

Who is having more fun, the kid playing or the kid sitting?

Success! On June 28th we pulled off our very first Sask in motion flash mob!

It was a total experiment with a new tactic for us. Flash mob have been literally popping up out of nowhere all over the world and we wanted to try.
So.. [...]

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Be Empowered – Youth Action

posted by: Kenji category: Accountability, Advocacy, Empowerment, Leadership

If you want to take the next step toward empowering yourself you have to let the right people know. You need to show the people you want to learn from, that you are interested in gaining knowledge and skills.

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Cause a Commotion – Flash Mobs!

posted by: Kenji category: Advocacy, Empowerment, Engagment, Leadership, Music, Physical Inactivity, Uncategorized

John Quincy Adams said, “If your actions inspire other to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
Smart man that Mr. Adams, and it makes sense doesn’t it:
 If you want people to care about what you care about, they have to know it exists!
You need to make people notice and remember [...]

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The Top 8 Reasons I Bike to Work

posted by: Kenji category: Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Cycling, Empowerment, Environment, Healthy Living

The top 8 reason I bike to work:

I hope they encourage you to try it for yourself or motivate you to continue. After all it is National Bike Month, and May 10-15 is the 2nd annual Bike 2 Work Week Regina.

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Earth Day and In Motion Action

posted by: Kenji category: Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Education, Empowerment, Environment

It’s Earth Day today, which is awesome. Any opportunity to turn the world’s attention to the intensifying situation on our planet is good. I personally see being an “environmentalist” and physically active as two intertwined things. So on Earth Day when the focus is so vast and overwhelming, and you’re just looking for some way to participate on a smaller scale here is an idea for you.

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Road Warrior-Ditching Fuel for Physical

posted by: Kenji category: Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Empowerment, Environment

Today is a huge day for me. Recently I made a decision that will massively affect my whole life. It’s scary and intimidating for sure. At the same time it’s exciting, bold and in great ways life altering.

Here’s the deal; I decided to buy a bike and adopt it as my main means of transportation. If you’re thinking whoa that’s a pretty big thing to take on.. you’re right!

Today was day 1, and the benefits of choosing active transportation are clear…

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3 Steps to Leading Physical Activity By Example

posted by: Kenji category: Advocacy, Empowerment, Engagment, Environment, Leadership

It’s been a week since our provincial gathering, Inspiring Action-Jump in 2010! I’ve spent a lot of time pondering what I learned from the event and our guest speaker Severn Cullis-Suzuki.Severn shared a lot of personal stories about her work within the environmental movement to explain how she became a young leader. We wanted the hundreds of youth in the audience and across the province to understand the incredible potential they have to be at the forefront of positive change.
Severn broke it down like this:

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Environmentalist Severn Cullis-Suzuki Teams Up With Physical Activity

posted by: Kenji category: Active Transportation, Active in Nature, Empowerment, Engagment, Environment, Leadership

An Environmentalist at A Physical Activity Gathering?

Severn Cullis-Suzuki is known throughout the world for her work in the environmental movement. Why then would Saskatchewan in motion invite her to be the guest speaker at out provincial gathering?

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It’s the New Year, Lets Get Active About Activity!

posted by: Kenji category: Accountability, Empowerment, Engagment, Healthy Living

Hey Everyone!
Happy New Year to you all!
I wanted to share with everyone a lengthier version of an e-mail I sent out to all of the contacts I’ve made at the 08’and 09’ Student Leadership Conference. As well as the participants of the Lieutenant Governors Youth Forum.
Anyway I’ll get right to it; here’s what I want [...]

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Gold and Glory at the World Jr. Championship

posted by: Kenji category: Empowerment, Engagment, Healthy Living, Sport

I’ve never been a hockey player myself but I’m definitely a fan. I’d go so far as saying I’ve tried to play, but actually classifying my actions as “playing” might be a different story. Haha. Thankfully there are many people who are amazingly talented at hockey! So even though I can’t be impressive, I can be impressed by the athletes who do it right. Luckily for Saskatchewan this year’s World Jr. Hockey championship was held here. Two cities, my home town, Regina and S’toon welcomed some of the best young players from around the world to play for gold. I think that’s what is so deadly about watching any competitive sport. It can be inspiring, and usually fires me up to do something myself.

First Hand

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