Want to make a difference in the world?
The Pearson Seminar on Youth Leadership is designed to strengthen the role young people play in building a more just and equitable world. For 3 weeks this summer, come learn with peers from around the world and inspiring educators in an immersive, experiential, and transformative program. Develop your capacity to build diverse and inclusive movements and teams working towards social and ecological justice.
Join us at PSYL 
We are grateful that we can gather, live and learn in the inspired setting of Vancouver Island, on the unceded territory of the Scia’new First Nation. At PSYL we learn on the shores of the Salish Sea, and amid British Columbia’s spectacular old-growth forests. We explore the ways in which this place is shaped both by global forces and its unique history, and the diverse forms of leadership required to move the needle towards justice and equity in this context.
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12 July – 1 August, 2020
Now accepting applications!
Are you 15-18 years old this summer and looking for the experience and network to develop your leadership? Enroll as a participant
Are you an experienced educator, recent PSYL alum, or a rising senior at a UWC? Apply to the organizing team
PSYL sparks a passion for the UWC movement
Reading Time: 4 minutes Past PSYL participant pursues a UWC education and returns to the summer program two years later to inspire a new generation on the Pearson campus.
PSYL alumna and Metchosin student recalls her first year at UWC Waterford Kamhlaba
Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you remember Abbey Christ-Rowling, one of our host family volunteer members? And that’s absolutely not all she is: This extraordinary young woman made her dream of going to a UWC come true last January. We recently chatted with her about her first year at UWC Waterford Kamhlaba.
Two Serendipitous Encounters…
Reading Time: 4 minutes The question was fairly simple, not to mention obvious. Why are you, Kacey (Katherine) Wilson, spending time on the Pearson campus this summer? But the answer was delightful — and spoke volumes about the cross-pollination of ideas and the commitment to student health and wellness that benefits all 17 UWC schools around the world.
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Victoria, BC, Canada
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Website Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy
Email us at psyl@pearsoncollege.ca
Call us at 250 391 2411
650 Pearson College Drive
Victoria, BC, Canada
V9C 4H7