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Jordan R. Jensen, Ed.D.
Founder and CEO of Freedom Focused |
Lately, disagreements and heated arguments over educational content and processes have been front-and-center in the news in the United States. Said disputes have even played a significant role in the outcome of recent political elections.
Dr. Jordan Jensen—a Doctor of Education—founded Freedom Focused in 2005 with a single-minded focus and objective: To provide a positive, productive, and unifying non-partisan educational message and framework to students of all ages.
The goal of SELF-ACTION LEADERSHIP is very basic and fundamental: to empower students everywhere to become their best selves in order to excel in academic, career, and personal pursuits.
At Freedom Focused, we believe that everyone deserves the right to learn and practice how to become the best person they can possibly become—no matter who they are, what they look like, or where they came from.
That is what "Equality of Opportunity" is all about.
For students to
RISE to the
summits of their existential potential and maximize their career competitiveness on the global stage, they must be taught
how to think creatively, critically, and independently.
They must also be instructed in vital life leadership topics such as communication, problem solving skills, and emotional intelligence.
Lastly, they must be disciplined, diligent, determined, and resilient human beings capable of dealing with disappointment, temporary failure, and a variety of other career and life setbacks. In short, they must be prepared to endure whatever life may throw at them to ensure their success in spite of whatever adversity they may face along the way.
That is what Freedom Focused teaches, models, and strives to exemplify. SELF-ACTION LEADERSHIP is all about Personal Leadership training, Character development, and the perpetual acquisition of key Life Skills. Everything we teach and promote is focused on these CORE TOPICS.
- PERSONAL LEADERSHIP
- CHARACTER
- LIFE SKILLS
Our nation and world is in desperate need of academic theories that UNIFY rather than divide. Some theories being promoted in schools today are creating anger and division in communities around the country. Freedom Focused does not take sides in said debates, nor do we comment on politically charged pedagogical material or other culturally controversial matters.
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| The Self-Action Leadership Theory |
We do, however, affirm the absolute existential equality of all races, ethnicities, and cultures. And by "Existential Equality," we are not referring to historical events and narratives, present circumstances and socioeconomic statuses, or equality of outcomes, but rather to "Equality of Opportunity"
and each human being's innate potential for pursuing and obtaining self-improvement and personal growth within a unique framework of each individual's singular existential makeup.
In pursuit of this universally desirable and attainable character movement, we further offer our own THEORY and MODEL—the Self-Action Leadership (SAL) Theory and Model—to administrators, teachers, coaches, parents, and students everywhere who seek personal progress, self-improvement, and existential growth.
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The Self-Action Leadership Model
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The
SAL Theory gives students a vision of their own limitless potential by taking them on a journey through nine (9) different stages of personal leadership growth and progress.
The SAL Model equips students with the practical tools of ACTION needed to succeed. It does so by outlining the principles and practices required to travel to the highest levels outlined in the SAL Theory.
The combined foci and goal of both frameworks is simple even if it is not always easy. Straight forward and unapologetic in our approach, our aim is HUMAN BETTERNESS—today, tomorrow, and forever.
Self-Action Leadership has been diligently researched and conscientiously constructed over the course of the past two decades. It is a product of the doctoral work of
Dr. Jensen in conjunction with numerous personal and educational action research projects
Dr. JJ has conducted over the course of three decades.
The SAL Theory & Model provides educators and students everywhere with a universal framework of personal leadership education and character development that we believe all people may readily embrace. This is possible because it steers clear of controversial subjects such as politics, religion, and culture wars.
In other words, Freedom Focused has no political agenda. Its only aim is the growth and development of all human beings throughout the United States and world.
And we know from personal experience that the key to expanding one's personal and professional freedom lies in study, work, self-discipline, self-reliance, and personal leadership and management; and that is precisely what we teach, model, and strive to exemplify—today, tomorrow, and forever.
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| The Self-Action Leadership Theory textbook |
So... how exactly does
SAL work?
In THREE (3) simple and highly doable, albeit not necessarily easy steps...
STEP 1. Sign up for our FREE blog to read and study weekly articles on Self-Action Leadership, which are newly published every Wednesday morning.
STEP 2. Buy the SAL textbooks and then carefully read, study, and re-read them to LEARN, APPLY, and TEACH as much as you (and your students) can about personal leadership and character development.
The SAL textbooks serve as a comprehensive GUIDE FOR LIFE. They are designed to be read and studied over-and-over again on a regular basis over long periods of time (til the end of one's life) to maximize the material's efficacy, since, "Repetition is the key to Reception."
STEP 3. Complete the SAL Master Challenge to receive your SAL diploma* (certificate), medal, and inclusion on the SAL Wall of Fame.
That's it!
Leaders, educators, coaches, mentors, and parents everywhere... what are you waiting for? The time to begin offering this cutting-edge, life-changing material to your students was yesterday. Don't procrastinate this golden opportunity any longer.
Click HERE to buy the SAL Theory textbook.
Click HERE to buy the SAL Model textbook.
For more information, or to sign up for our FREE blog, please email Dr. Jensen at: jordan.jensen@freedomfocused.com
-Dr. JJ
November 10, 2021
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA
Author's Note: This is the 238th Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013.
Click HERE for a compete listing of the other 237 FF Blog Articles.
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Tune in NEXT Wednesday for another article on a Self-Action Leadership related topic.
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Notes:
* SAL Master Challenge diploma is not academically accredited.
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