The Culture Garden: Youth Leadership for Collaboration programme provides essential tools and practices, as well as opportunities for individual and group self-reflection, which empower young people to succeed in any collaborative group context. The program engages with leadership, not as a quality held by one person or by a select few, but as a whole-group phenomenon. The governance practices a group uses; the ways that conflict, feedback, and communication are navigated; a group’s relationship to creativity and self-expression; its economic paradigms, and more inform what kind of leadership it potentiates and responds to. In the YLC program, youth are given experiential opportunities to learn and build confidence using the “cultural tools” that enable collaboration in their school, employment, and community contexts.