Ahmed Knowmadic Ali at Creative Mornings Edmonton

Workshop

Becoming: the future you, in your own words.

Students write to the person they’re becoming: what they’ll do, how they’ll be remembered, and what they want people to feel when they hear their name.

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When it works best

Good timing

Leadership classes, transition years, graduation seasons, wellness units, and groups working on resilience or goal-setting.

Grades

Grades 5-12

What students write

A future-self poem that connects aspiration to specific choices, habits, relationships, and courage.

Skills

What students practice.

Write about the future without defaulting to generic motivation

Students name the future in concrete scenes, choices, supports, obstacles, and responsibilities.

Connect goals to action and responsibility

The poem becomes a bridge between aspiration and the habits, relationships, and courage needed to move toward it.

Use narrative detail to make aspiration believable

A future you can picture is easier to believe. Students write the scene, not the slogan.

Practice voice, pacing, and delivery

Built through reading the poem aloud, adjusting pace and emphasis, and rehearsing a version ready to share with the group.

The session

From now to next.

Name: identify what students are moving toward
Ground: connect aspiration to real obstacles and supports
Draft: write from a future self with specificity
Perform: practice saying the future out loud

Curriculum connections

Language Arts, Career Education, Health, goal-setting, narrative, and performance.

From my worksheet

One day, I will _____.
People will remember me because _____.
And when they say my name, I want them to feel _____.

Booking

Book Becoming.

Graduation, transition years, a wellness unit: tell me the moment, the grades, your dates and your school.

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