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What’s Going on in Adam’s Head?

Published by absolute April 2nd, 2009 in Think Day, Team 1 and Featured. Closed

Hope, value, dedication, purpose,and love. To accomplish anything great in this life, all of those character traits are needed. The funny thing about those character traits is that you never really know you have them until challenges arrive! Team One has had some challenges recently. As many of you are aware, we didn’t make it out west for our tour. On March 3rd, in Minnesota, our tour bus hit some black ice driving along the I-94. We flipped, rolled and destroyed our bus. Thankfully, none of us were seriously injured and we can go back to life as normal- if we want to. This accident has thrown us some challenges- the band we were touring with, along with our sound guy decided to leave after the accident to spend time at home. The rest of us decided to keep going. For Team One, we believe nothing worth doing comes easy and we believe in the message we share with students all across Canada. We can’t stop now - there is too much to do! So here we go… we have a new tour and a new team. The Ocean Buried is now touring with us. They have done a great job so far in the shows we have had here in Ontario! We are all super pumped to have them with us! With a band, we also need a sound man; so now we have Jesse. Jesse literally dropped everything he was doing to join our team! He is an amazing guy and has been a great help these past few weeks. Hope, value, dedication, purpose, and love. In Absolute, we share a message that we get to choose who we become. Every day, life gives us opportunities to become who we want to be. Those choices rarely come through easy events. Growth comes through the difficult times, and we all have them. How we respond shapes who we become. And…that is why we are all excited to get back out on the road! See ya on the road! Adam Churchman, Road Team Manager, Team One

Absolute on Channel 6 News

Published by absolute October 6th, 2007 in Front Page, Video, Newsletter, Press, Team 1, Student Zone, Road Team Blogs and Featured. 2 Comments

Absolute recently played at John Diefenbaker Secondary School in Hanover, ON. Channel 6 news covered the event, and here is the news clip that aired on Monday, Oct 1 2007:

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Did you get our FAX?

Published by absolute June 12th, 2007 in Mainpage and Featured. 0 Comments

We just sent a fax blast today to schools across Canada. You can click here if you are now looking for more information about our motivational experience.

For this advertising campaign we wanted to try a different approach- addressing a nice cover page to the secretary (a.k.a “most influential person in the school”) to get them to sweeten up to us and pass on the info to the proper contact. If nothing else, hopefully they get a bit of a chuckle out of it. We thought we would take this route so that the school will realize that it is a legitimate fax before tossing it in the trash.

We find that in sending faxes and making phone calls to schools that is really easy to get mistaken for telemarketers or solicitors and to be treated coldly because of that. We are now trying to get across to schools that it is actually the opposite: as a non-profit we are financially giving a lot more to schools than we are receiving (see pricing here) . Like most educators, we do what we do because we care about students and believe in them - enough so that we a willing to send the odd “junk” fax to a school to be able to reach more of them with a message of hope.

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Miss Canada Scholarship Joins Absolute

Published by absolute May 25th, 2007 in Team 1, Road Team Blogs and Featured. 1 Comment

We were very privileged to have Kristen Parsons, Miss Canada Scholarship 2006, join us for our last week of tour in Manitoba! Miss Canada Scholarship is a competition run by Canada Pageants. Honestly we were a little skeptical when we first approached by Canada Pageants last year, because we thought that having a “Beauty Queen” might be contrary to our message on inner-value. However, we sooned learned that this was much different that a typical beauty contest. Continue reading ‘Miss Canada Scholarship Joins Absolute’

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Major Pratt School: The best show of its kind!

Published by absolute May 23rd, 2007 in QQ, MB, Testimonials and Featured. 0 Comments

To Whom It May Concern:

I am pleased to be able to offer a letter of support, praise and endorsement for the Absolute Leadership Development school assembly presentation.

As a small school, our funds for bringing in professional presentations for our students are limited. For this reason, we must be very prudent when it comes to booking performers, speakers and other assembly professionals. We hope that all of our bookings will show a maximum of value for the money we pay.

I can state categorically that the Absolute Leadership presentation was ‘absolutely’ the best presentation of its kind that we have ever had at our school. Continue reading ‘Major Pratt School: The best show of its kind!’

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