Steps to Leaps
Serving Purdue students
to develop Life Skills
Steps to Leaps
The Steps to Leaps program is a theory-to-practice framework
that strives to develop personal and professional skills.
The program supports students to reach their life goals
through engaging peer activities in the following five content areas:
The Steps to Leaps program is a theory-to-practice framework
that strives to develop personal and professional skills.
The program supports students to reach their life goals
through engaging peer activities in the following five content areas:
The Steps to Leaps program is a theory-to-practice framework
that strives to develop personal and professional skills.
The program supports students to reach their life goals
through engaging peer activities in the following five content areas:
STEPS
TO LEAPS
NETWORKS
NETWORKS: Growing trust,
relationships and belonging.
WELLBEING
GRIT
IMPACT
WELLBEING: Enhancing self-care through deep social connections.
LEADERSHIP
GRIT: Growing capacities to persevere and overcome challenges.
LEADERSHIP: Developing skills and purpose by serving peers.
IMPACT: Supporting each other
and experiencing personal change.
NETWORKS: Growing trust,
relationships and belonging.
WELLBEING: Enhancing self-care through deep social connections.
GRIT: Growing capacities to persevere and overcome challenges.
LEADERSHIP: Developing skills and purpose by serving peers.
IMPACT: Supporting each other
and experiencing personal change.
STEPS
TO LEAPS
NETWORKS
WELLBEING
GRIT
IMPACT
LEADERSHIP
The Steps to Leaps are continuously building on each other
enabling a progression like a spiral staircase.
The Steps to Leaps are continuously building on each other
enabling a progression like a spiral staircase.
1. A focus on deep sharing and belonging within networks,
2. which leads to social connections around self-care to increase wellbeing,
3. which enables students to build grit to overcome challenges,
4. which inspires them to commit to purpose, service and peer leadership,
5. which enables them to expand their personal impact.
'Steps to Leaps' progression:
"The Steps to Leaps program aims to enhance students'
Wellbeing, Resilience and Character Development.
The model builds on the fundamental understanding that
every student has enormous capacities for growth."
Mission Statement, Steps to Leaps, Purdue University
