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Cultivate Emotional Intelligence

Guide Students to Life Clarity

WHAT DO YOU HOPE YOUR STUDENTS ARE LIKE WHEN THEY GRADUATE?

We have thousands of responses from hundreds of educators. 90% of them have the same answer.

They want their students to be emotionally intelligent.

They care more about their character and capacity than their test scores, college acceptances, or GPA.
They are passionately concerned about their ability to listen empathetically, make good friends, make healthy choices, and care for their communities than they are about attendance or AP exams.
Educators want students to become self-aware of their emotions, preferences, and personalities.
They want them to be adaptable in challenging situations, complexity, and conflict.
They want them to be socially adept and establish and maintain healthy relationships.
They want them to think critically about their values and convictions and make choices to navigate towards a path in life uniquely suited for them.

The question is, are those qualities a natural, consistent result of your interactions? Are your students becoming the people you hope for?

There's no handbook for this thing called raising humans. That's where we come in. We'll give you and your students what you need so they grow up ready to be emotionally intelligent and build meaningful lives.

On-Demand Digital Training Courses

Step-by-step virtual training, so you give your students what they need to become emotionally intelligent adults.

Adaptable Lesson Plans

We send you relevant and adaptable lesson plans on critical topics every student must discuss. Use them straight out of the box, or as you see fit.

Relevant Resources & Content

We'll invite you to monthly live training webinars, plus weekly podcast episodes relevant to your work with students.

Earn a Professional Certificate

By completing the training course, attending the webinars and participating in a peer review, you can receive a Certificate of Social-Emotional Learning from us.

Upcoming Live Workshops

Each month, we offer live training workshops on the most relevant SEL competencies. Our style is learn-by-doing rather than lecture, so everything we present is field-tested and ready to put to use tomorrow.

January Workshop — The Science of Hope

February Workshop — The Hero's Journey

March Workshop — Nervous System Regulation Strategies

April Workshop — Motivational Interviewing

It's too easy to miss the critical conversations.

Kids always get asked what they want to do when they grow up. High schoolers get asked what their plans are after graduation. College students get asked the same thing, with a big emphasis on work. But we never ask the most important question that foundationally will prepare a kid for success:

What kind of person do you want to become?

What a kid does professionally is important. We want them to be responsible for themselves and become self-sufficient. But it’s only one part of the life equation- and it’s not the most important. A key phrase we’ve used over the years that resonates with parents is, “You can be successful in school and succeed in your career but still fail in life.” We’ve found that if we put most of our focus only on what kids do for work someday that we miss the opportunity to help them build a meaningful life.

When students don’t know who they want to become, they lack the clarity and the confidence to make important decisions when they need to make them.

Who you turn into isn’t just left to chance. It’s not just your natural state that unfolds over time until you realize you’re done growing and have an end result. Your future character is predicted by the clarity you have now and the many little choices you make to live into your vision. In The Moral Bucket List, author David Brooks calls those eulogy virtues in contrast to resume virtues. Eulogy virtues are those qualities you seek to embody and the things you’ll be remembered for by others, compared to resume virtues as the accomplishments you hope to achieve. He urges people to seek eulogy virtues first and foremost.

Imagine if every student had that opportunity. (Imagine if you had had that opportunity!) I know there’s no chance I would’ve gone to college to study Accounting if I had reflected on the person I wanted to be, especially if they challenged me to explain why. All the ingredients of my character were available during middle and high school- I just didn’t get the opportunity to think about it productively and put it all together. I mindlessly moved forward on a plan and life that belonged to someone else. But thankfully, I had significant experiences and trained mentors who took me there in college.

Let's start expecting every kid to be able to answer this question before they graduate high school: What kind of person do you want to become?

A key foundational element for building a meaningful life is having a vision for your life.

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Having these guided discussions with your students are critical—but not easy. That's why we offer our resources.

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