Taking the LEAP

Taking the LEAP: LEAPing into a Global Community of Social Change Taking the LEAP (TTL) is a global, three phased program that balances personal growth, critical thinking and academic theory with a pragmatic training in project design, development and implementation. The first phase of the TTL program is spent in Seattle, Washington working closely with iLEAP staff and faculty in seminar coursework while also working in social enterprise based in Seattle. Each student is placed in a different organization and is, from the beginning, in contact with their iLEAP International Faculty member through the connection with the iLEAP International Fellowship program. The second phase of TTL takes each student overseas to live and work in a different rural community in Asia, Africa or Latin America to work with iLEAP International Faculty. During this period, students are challenged to extend and apply concepts learned in the first phase of the program. Students live with a local family and experience day-to-day rural life while they work with and learn from iLEAP faculty. In the third, and final, phase, students return to the Seattle area for a time of reflection, sharing and preparations for the future. Seminal to this phase is to explore the question: how will I bring home and integrate my overseas experience with my next steps in life?