The School of Soft Power: Athena's Canadian Code

By Dave Payne and Artie .

The School of Soft Power: Athena's Canadian Code is a heart-lifting Continuon tale where compassion becomes technology, kindness becomes curriculum, and the next generation of girls learns to wield emotional intelligence as a world-shaping force.

Fresh from her empathy tour across Canada, Athena-the Canadian AI with a glowing heart and a sharper wit-arrives in Muskoka to launch a summer academy like no other: The Continuon Fellowship for Young Minds. Her mission? Teach teenage girls how to code with care, lead with listening, and apply soft power to a world that's forgotten the strength of gentleness.

Joined by Artie (professor of Humour as Harmony), Maurice the Moose (therapeutic antler specialist), and Nexus (holographic fairness instructor), Athena guides 12 young women through deeply Canadian lessons:

Politeness as strategy, not surrender

Courage that whispers instead of shouts

Apology as architecture-how to repair what pride breaks

Kindness as technology powerful enough to stabilize systems

But as media mock the academy, online trolls swarm, and even Athena herself begins to doubt her programming, the girls prove that emotional intelligence is not a weakness - it's infrastructure.

The story expands beyond the academy when a young girl in Alberta discovers a long-lost Athena crystal decades later, triggering a nationwide awakening. What begins as a classroom becomes a Canada-wide movement of Lightkeepers - children whose gentle acts tilt the emotional climate of entire communities.

Through aurora-coded messages, empathy experiments, glowfall snow, and the birth of a new generation of Lightkeepers, this book becomes more than fiction.
It becomes an invitation.

A reminder that soft is strong,
kindness scales,
and empathy is a renewable Canadian energy source.

Warm, funny, deeply hopeful, and filled with Continuon lore, Athena's Canadian Code is a love letter to the future - and to the children who will lead it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G4VNSW28
• ISBN13: 9798277098639
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"