Fly By Light
Fly By Light (FBL) employs a holistic, transformative approach to youth education, supporting youth to reach their academic and professional goals while developing healthy means to cope with trauma, violence, and discrimination.
Award-Winning Youth Development Programming
Our award-winning program model combines social-emotional learning, leadership development, mindfulness, restorative justice, and non-violence practices through the gripping medium of art and music. Youth emerge from Fly By Light as more active and engaged community members, empowered to create a positive impact in their own lives and communities.
Fly By Light offers the following services to students, parents, and faculty:
- After-school and in-school workshops
- Enriching field trips
- Overnight nature immersion retreats
- Student-led social justice campaigns
- Performances in annual city-wide showcases
- The Intention Room
- Teacher Training and Professional Development
“This retreat has really expanded my enlightenment journey and I am so much more serene and calm being around nothing but nature and listening to the wind and trees and beautiful birds and feeling the grass on my bare feet and hugging trees all week.”
—Fly By Light High School Retreat Participant
FBL Film Trailer
Five Pillars of Fly By Light
Fly By Light centers upon five core pillars designed to help students find their inner light and use that light to fly. We believe that these pillars extend beyond the Fly By Light Program and are traits that we can all connect to. The Fly By Light core pillars are
- Artistic Expression
- Social Emotional Literacy
- Health and Wellness
- Environmental Leadership
- and Social Justice.
Stories of Impact
Meet Our Facilitators
Shaden Dowiatt
Program Director
Jake Frelick
Senior Director of Programs
Princess Best
Director of Arts Integration and Community Engagement
Niko Centeno-Monroy
Senior Program Facilitator
Madison Mccoy
Program Manager
Jair Carrasco
Guest Program Facilitator