Teen-Led Entrepreneurial Community Building Hubs in South-East Asia
Supporting Teenagers in Transition into Talent-Driven and Vision-Oriented Adulthood
Upcoming Hub - Malaysia!
Join us in beautiful Malaysia from April through June 2024 for a unique Teen-Led Hub with a special focus on Entrepreneurship and Community Building.
The hub offers an empowering Leadership Framework supporting older teenagers (16+) in their smooth transition into adulthood.
Set in exotic Johor Bahru (Southern Malaysia), only minutes from Singapore, this Teen-Led Entrepreneurial Community Building hub will focus on introducing your teenage kids into the world of business and nurturing their Entrepreneurial Spirit.
The hub offers a unique Leadership Framework - to support older teenagers (16+) in managing their natural talents, creating and running their own community, and their smooth transition into purpose-driven and mission-oriented adulthood.
This 8-week special edition hub has been designed by experienced educators, and created with Teenage World-Schoolers and Unschoolers in mind.
We accept registrations until 15 March 2024.
Register Your Interest
When you click on the Register Your Interest button and create your free account, you will have access to more information about the hub and you will be able to decide which program you will want your teenage kids to participate in - free or premium.
If you wish to join us for the free program, you will be able to book a place for your entire family. This free program includes access to Teen-Led Community Building Opportunities, Interest-Based Social Clubs for 16+ Teens, and Weekly Whole-Family Gatherings.
If you are looking to receive more targeted support and your teenagers are into Entrepreneurship, you will be able to sign up your teen children (16+) for the main highlight of the hub - PREMIUM Entrepreneurial Educational Pathway that is hands-on and supports teenagers in stepping into talent-driven and mission-oriented adulthood.
Full access to this 8-week Entrepreneurial Education Pathway is only 950£ per child, and each additional 16+ teenage child/sibling from the same family will get 60% off.
We accept registrations until 15 March 2024.
Click on the Button below to join NOW!
If you wish to join us for the free program, you will be able to book a place for your entire family. This free program includes access to Teen-Led Community Building Opportunities, Interest-Based Social Clubs for 16+ Teens, and Weekly Whole-Family Gatherings.
If you are looking to receive more targeted support and your teenagers are into Entrepreneurship, you will be able to sign up your teen children (16+) for the main highlight of the hub - PREMIUM Entrepreneurial Educational Pathway that is hands-on and supports teenagers in stepping into talent-driven and mission-oriented adulthood.
Full access to this 8-week Entrepreneurial Education Pathway is only 950£ per child, and each additional 16+ teenage child/sibling from the same family will get 60% off.
We accept registrations until 15 March 2024.
Click on the Button below to join NOW!
About the Location
We are running this special edition Entrepreneurship Community Hub in Johor Bahru, Southern Malaysia.
AN URBAN OASIS
The event will be located in Iskandar - the most modern part of Johor Bahru and one fo the busiest business hubs in Malaysia, strategically situated right next to Singapore, synonymous with world-class enterprise, financial success, and... great FUN!
And although everything is buzzing and bustling with activity there, Iskandar is also known for green unobstructed space, which is a very unique feature for most of SE Asia. An urban oasis full of parks, palm trees, and hectares of jungles which will soothe your eyes and your mind everywhere you go.
With top-class accommodation, access to numerous adventure parks and sports facilities, and excellent modern infrastructure, Iskandar provides great value and plenty of opportunities for teenage world-schoolers who crave for connection with the modern world and at the same time need a relaxing and casual lifestyle.
RECREATION, FUN & ADVENTURE
Iskandar is a great place for entrepreneurial hubs because the region is already business-driven and vision-oriented, and the spirit of entrepreneurship and opportunities can be felt and easily explored there.
At the same time, the area is a gateway to fun for young people - with a Legoland theme park and waterpark, outdoor adventure parks, horse riding and cycling, recreational parks with lakes, skating rinks, and rock climbing and bouldering places within an easy reach.
ISKANDAR MEDINI - PROMOTING COMMUNITY BUILDING
Our hub HQ will be located in the Iskandar Medini area - close to the Legoland Theme Park and within a 5 minute-drive from Puteri Harbour, Sunway Citrine Redbox and Adventure Park, and newly opened Eco Park.
For best experience for your teenagers, and for easy access to everything Iskandar Medini offers, we recommend booking your accommodation in the Legoland area. You can find excellent-value-for-money choices with amazing facilities for your entire family to enjoy.
Iskandar Medini is a great place to hang out for older teenagers promoting independence and community building - the area is walkable and young people can safely reach places of interest on foot or by Grab - the best local e-hailing service. And it's within a walking distance from Legoland and Medini Mall with restaurants, supermarkets, and shaded outdoor areas.
WORLD CLASS FACILITIES AND ATTRACTIONS
Puteri Harbour with a long promenade, a Danga Bay Beach with white sand, and Johor Bahru City Centre are within an easy reach too.
With Singapore just across the bridge, young people and their families can take day trips and take advantage of the world-class outdoor facilities, fantastic theme parks, museums, zoos, and the famous Sentosa Island where you can cross a hanging bridge to reach the most southern tip of the South-East Asia mainland for a fantastic view over the bay towards the ocean.
Excellent, abundant and affordable food choices will await you at every corner, people are friendly and welcoming, and in Malaysia English is widely spoken.
Community-Oriented
Our Teen-Led Community Building Hub is for world-schooled and unschooled teenagers who are craving meaningful relationships.
Perfect for young minds who prefer to share their lives with like-minded peers, build long-lasting bonds while on the go, and are ready to step in to co-creating with others.
Our hub is meant to offer a sense of grounding, rooting, and comfort - everything that young people may miss while travelling for long periods of time.
Our hub is meant to offer a sense of grounding, rooting, and comfort - everything that young people may miss while travelling for long periods of time.
Created with Unschoolers in Mind
This Entrepreneurial Teen-Led Hub offers a flexible framework with interest-based self-governed clubs, weekly missions, projects and challenges that will help your teenage kids learn how to lead others with confidence and in line with their own individual needs and preferences.
Our Teen-Governed Hubs are created to help young people continue their learning journey in a way that they have always done, which is unschooling and self-directed pathway, with confidence that this kind of learning will help them achieve their dreams, live successful life, and create passion and mission-oriented careers or businesses.
That is why our hubs do not offer structured classes or academically oriented activities. Instead, the core of the project is based on various interest and activity clubs running continuously throughout the entire duration of the hub - all led and governed by teenagers themselves. Our role as facilitators is to guide and support them as/when needed.
That is why our hubs do not offer structured classes or academically oriented activities. Instead, the core of the project is based on various interest and activity clubs running continuously throughout the entire duration of the hub - all led and governed by teenagers themselves. Our role as facilitators is to guide and support them as/when needed.
Future-Oriented Educational Framework
Our hub offers a specially crafted Leadership Framework with 6 Key Focus Areas that are particularly important for older teenagers at this stage of their lives.
Six Key Focus Areas:
1. Me & My Talents
2. Community Building
3. Leadership & Teamwork
4. Entrepreneurship & Mission
5. Positive Relationships
6. Personal Health & Wellbeing
These Key Focus Areas will be supported throughout the entire duration of the hub through three different pathways:
- Entrepreneurial Pathway
- teen-governed weekly Interest Clubs
- location-related Cultural Immersion Theme
The Leadership Framework will be embedded in daily activities, Interest Clubs, Discussion Groups, Weekly Missions and Challenges, Community Building Activities, and Self-Reflection Tools. Additionally, young participants will have a chance to expand on these 6 Key Focus Areas through outings, exploration, trips and together-time planned and organised by themselves in their free time.
Interest Clubs
These self-governed interest-based clubs will not only aim at exploring passions and interests, but will give teenagers a great chance to manage the day-to-day operations of their clubs, decide about their format, structure, content and flow through teamwork and collaboration.
Examples of interest clubs: Sports & Fitness, Books & Music, Dance, Public Speaking, Politics & Current Affairs, How to Solve World's Biggest Problems, Arts & Crafts, Science and Technology, etc.
Examples of interest clubs: Sports & Fitness, Books & Music, Dance, Public Speaking, Politics & Current Affairs, How to Solve World's Biggest Problems, Arts & Crafts, Science and Technology, etc.
Entrepreneurial Education Pathway
Our teen-led hub offers an empowering Entrepreneurial Education Pathway - facilitated weekly mentoring meetings to introduce teenagers to the world of business and nurture their entrepreneurial spirit.
Your teenagers will work together to:
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discover, explore, and celebrate their natural talents,
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find their inner calling,
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manage and run projects together,
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discuss successes and failures of popular business ventures,
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understand the world of marketing, product design, customer experience, and client's perspective
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and perhaps even come up with their own business ideas!
Location-Related Cultural Immersion Theme
This pathway aims at understanding unique aspects of the local culture, geography and customs through direct exploration and hands-on projects. When possible, it will include taking part in local festivities, authentic experiences, and naturally occurring interactions.
Suggested Hub Agenda
Our hub has a flexible agenda that supports Self-Directed Learning and offers plenty of space for relaxation, social time, and personal activities.
INTEREST-BASED SOCIAL CLUBS
There will be club activities once a day for 1-2 hours depending on participants’ needs.
- Agenda and learning goals for each club will be decided by and discussed with teenagers, and will be adjusted accordingly on a weekly basis.
- Each club will have its own leader to oversee daily operations of the club and to liaise between hub organisers and participants.
- Clubs will be organised around the Iskandar Puteri - Medini Township vicinity area for easy access with some exceptions such as Gardening Club or Sports Club that may require different or changing venues for better and more varied experience. They will still take place within a 10-min ride from the main hub centre.
ENTREPRENEURIAL MENTORING & TRAINING
- Weekly visits to local businesses followed by brainstorming, discussion and mentoring sessions to directly experience business operations, form customer experience opinion, interview owners and managers (when possible), and discuss findings and observations with training facilitators.
- Participants will receive educational resources and materials to support their journey, and they will work on projects together based on their experience and topics covered. During the week they will work on their Portfolios by themselves or in groups/teams if they prefer.
All experiences are designed with unschoolers and self-directed learners in mind.
OPTIONAL EXPERIENCES:
They are not included in the price but offered to those families interested in enhancing their community hub experience.
TEENAGE GLAMPING NIGHT
To boost community building spirit and participation in outdoor team building activities, we propose organising a Glamping Night for teenagers in Sunway X-park Adventure Park.
DESARU COAST BEACH & ECOTOURISM EXPERIENCE
Desaru Coast Eco Tourism & Resort Stay - a 3-4 night stay in a beach resort. This trip has entrepreneurial theme packed with adventure, active outdoor exploration, fun, beach time, and a visit to Desaru Fruit Farm.
ADDITIONAL CLASSES:
A range of interest clubs can be accessed for additional charge to fill your daily schedule. They'll appeal to specific interests and needs, and are offered in different venues by local teachers and tutors.
- Martial Arts classes
- Dance classes: modern jazz, ballroom, belly dance, etc
- Cooking classes
- Archery
- Horse riding, trail riding
- Ice skating
- Bouldering and indoor rock climbing with opportunity to do a certified climbing course
- Music Studio - perfect for group jamming sessions and creative music making
On top of that, extra activities such as SUP, kayaking, outdoor obstacle courses, or trampolines can be accessed in the nearby X-Park and arranged as group activities.
For added boost of adrenaline, fun and play, we recommend purchasing an annual pass to Legoland Land with Water Park and Aquarium. We have tried and tested this option, and it proven to be a great addition to our daily schedule. All within a walking distance if you decide to stay in the area of Iskandar Medini.
What's Included in the Fee:
We always make sure that we offer high quality, affordable and sustainable experiences for teenagers and their families that will leave a long-lasting positive impact.
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8 weeks of Leadership Framework covering 6 Key Focus Areas
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Empowering Entrepreneurship Pathway - access to online educational resources, training and curriculum to be completed in real life individually and with other teenagers; facilitated weekly group mentoring, brainstorming and feedback meetings related to the Entrepreneurial education curriculum
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Weekly visits to local businesses to cover the Entrepreneurial education Curriculum
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Individual Entrepreneurship & Talent Portfolio Builder
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Weekly missions, challenges and projects to complete with other teenagers during their entire stay set around the Entrepreneurship Pathway
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Access to a dedicated Entrepreneurial Community Group & Training Platform to help cover the curriculum, exchange information, feedback, complete missions, ask questions
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Access to all benefits that are part of Free registration: Interest-Based Social Clubs for Teens & Weekly Family Picnics & Gatherings
Our registration fee covers access to our hub for a family with One 16+ Teenager.
If you have more teenage kids and would like to sign them up for our Community Hub too, just contact us at support@naturalbornleaders and we'll send you a payment link with 60% discount on each additional teenager.
What’s NOT Included in our Registration Fee:
Accommodation, flights and transport to and from destination, food, travel and health insurance, additional classes and activities, and optional tours.
We will suggest additional trips and outings for participating teens, and these will be organised and paid separately.
All participating families are strongly advised to have their own travel and health insurance covering the entire duration of the hub.
Parents are responsible for their teenage children at all times during the entire stay.
About Us
We’ve been wordschooling full time for 17 years and have lived in more than 25 countries. We are slow travellers - we prefer to stay in once place for longer, usually 3 months or more. Travelling this way gives us enough time to settle down, ground oneself in a place, feel at home, understand local community, grow and make friends.
Our son Julius (17) - an unschooler, self-directed learner passionate about piano, fitness and dance. Exceptionally talented writer, great motivational speaker and nature lover. The person behind the idea of Teen-led community Hubs - his dream project that he would love to bring to life with fellow travelling teens.
Magdalena & Witold apart from being nomad at hearts are experienced educators, teacher trainers, international keynote speakers specialising in Play, Personalised and Self-directed Learning. UK qualified NVQ and EYPS Assessors, authors of many publications, trainings for early years teachers and home schooling parents, creators of The Sustainable Education Model for developing countries. Passionate about empowering young people to connect with their natural gifts and talents.
Our son Julius (17) - an unschooler, self-directed learner passionate about piano, fitness and dance. Exceptionally talented writer, great motivational speaker and nature lover. The person behind the idea of Teen-led community Hubs - his dream project that he would love to bring to life with fellow travelling teens.
Magdalena & Witold apart from being nomad at hearts are experienced educators, teacher trainers, international keynote speakers specialising in Play, Personalised and Self-directed Learning. UK qualified NVQ and EYPS Assessors, authors of many publications, trainings for early years teachers and home schooling parents, creators of The Sustainable Education Model for developing countries. Passionate about empowering young people to connect with their natural gifts and talents.
Guest Appearance
Five years ago during our stay in Kuala Lumpur we met an amazing worldschooling family. We connected very easily and spent really nice time together - played The Settlers of Catan while discussing our family roots, did some serious laser tagging, attended batik painting sessions, and enjoyed some pool time together!
We haven’t seen each other for 5 years, but when people share similar values, the world has surprising ways to bring you together again. The Zingg family will be joining our Entrepreneurship Hub in Malaysia!
We became so excited when we read the info on the Teen-led Entrepreneurial Hub in Johor Bahru. It was exactly what we had been hoping for, but hadn’t quite come across. Older teens…LED by teens…an affordable location right across from Singapore; our daughter stopped talking about getting a job and a car back home, and said, “We have to do this.”
The Zingg family will be sharing their experience with us all during the hub adding another valuable layer to the entire concept!
Adam Zingg, a business college professor, offered to pitch in with his experience and we will be incorporating his unique angle and knowledge on finance, investments, strategic management, economics and recruitment into the hub activities.
Their son, Luke, is in college now, but their daughter Serenna (16) continues to travel with the family. Serenna is a gifted writer; she is helping co-author an online course for teens and young adults on life and business strategy. She’s a go-getter, never-stop-learning, goal-setting kind of girl. She has a heart for righting injustices in the animal and human world. Lindsay is a course editor and videographer.
We are very excited to create an unforgettable experience for teens and families together with the Zingg family in Malaysia this April!
We can’t wait to see what special gifts
your family will bring to this unique event!
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