One of life's great mysteries - what lies at the heart of human behaviour - will be making Queenstown's youth dotty from next month, during three one-day workshops aimed at high school pupils and recent school leavers.
Get Dotted uses coloured coding to teach communication skills, with different personality types flagged with coloured dots; for example, purple for "extroverts" or red for "analytical types".
Wakatipu Victim Support Group chairwoman Fae Robertson said past and present students of Wakatipu High School were being offered the workshop as a gift from various service clubs in the area to their local community.
The Community Trust of Southland had granted $5000 of the $40,000 needed to implement and manage the programme.
An introductory evening for parents will be held at 7pm today, in the Queenstown Memorial Hall, as part of Youth Week.
Three one-day workshops would allow 328 pupils and recent school leavers to attend the workshops, the first of which would be held next month.
Ms Robertson hoped a charitable trust would be set up to deliver the programme to younger pupils next year and that it would eventually become part of the curriculum in Wakatipu.
The programme had been a joint effort between the school, Queenstown Lakes District Council, Queenstown Police, youth group, Lions, Rotary, Victim Support and strengthening families.
