Cade S.
Interests: FOOTBALL, BASEBALL, SPEAKING, JESSIE REES FOUNDATION
Blog Posts
2024-11-01: Reality Check Workshop Part II
Since the first Reality Check workshop was so well received, I requested to have a Part II done with actual football players who knew and played the game. I wanted them to help me enhance the workshop so this metaphor of using football to better grasp writing was easily understood. I knew I needed to collaborate with my new friend and football enthusiast whom I met during part I of the Reality Check workshop, Cade Spinello, because his story deeply inspired people.
After working with the Saddleback College football coach, the learning assistance specialist for athletes at the tutoring center and inviting Cade to speak at the next workshop, we assigned a date and piloted this workshop with five football players.
Cade Spinello, myself & five Saddleback College football players
NEVER EVER GIVE UP!
Curriculum
Hearing Cade Spinello’s story and his collaboration with the Jessie Rees Foundation to Never Ever Give Up on his fight with cancer.
A booklet that walked the players through the following:
Player Profile: Assessing their strengths & weaknesses
Game Plan: Understanding not everything can be predicted, but how to develop strategies to achieve an objective
Scenarios:
Maintaining consistency
Overcoming a time crunch
Moving through road blocks
Making tough decisions
CADE’S INSPIRING STORY
Watch the video below to learn more about our guest speaker, Cade Spinello
Jessie Rees Foundation
Encouraging Kids Fighting Cancer to
NEVER EVER GIVE UP
2024-09-18: Reality Check Workshop Part I
A group of in-person and online participants immersed themselves in an environment on September 18th, 2024 where we discussed what motivated and blocked their writing process and how writing could potentially help to re-align their path(s) in life. This football themed workshop was inspired by a young football enthusiast who attended my previous goal setting workshop and moved me with his realization about self-love.
I’m always inspired by those who attend the PLBTM workshops so it was no surprise that another football enthusiast, Cade Spinello, a first year Saddleback student, moved me during this Reality Check workshop with his incredible story. He shared how he overcame a brain tumor and stroke at five years old and how he’d become an inspiration for professional athletes across the nation. I felt so blessed to have Cade and his dad attend as they were a great resource to help me understand if my football and writing metaphor actually worked and it definitely did.
Cade Spinello & Myself
Curriculum
A booklet that walked the participants through the following:
Learning about themself & their writing process
Exploring their avenues of interests & how to use them to help with their writing
Gaining clarity on what motivates or blocks their writing process
Understanding the benefits of writing
We gotta do this more often and Cade is awesome!!