Human personality gets solidified in adolescence.
That’s when our minds have finished making up ways of dealing with our biggest existential questions since early childhood:
Am I safe?
Am I enough?
Am I worthy?
Am I likable/lovable?
Do I belong?
Most of us adults are still either asking these questions - or compensating for our beliefs about them - daily.
I've know 4 middle-aged men in the last few years who've died due to alcoholism. They're extreme cases of this, yet they underscore that almost NONE of us have learned the most fundamental and important aspects about ourselves: who we really are, how we operate, and how to thrive in life no matter our circumstances.
Most of us never learned how to answer those questions ourselves, or even that we’re asking them!
We seek answers in the habits and beliefs of our peers.
We seek answers in the habits and beliefs of characters in our tv shows.
We seek answers in the habits and beliefs of our parents and families and cultures.
When we can't find answers outside ourselves (and these aren't really questions that can be answered outside ourselves very well), we make up ways to compensate for what we think are the answers.
Adolescence.
These critical years in the development of our identity.
These critical years in our deciding who we are and what we’re capable of.
These critical years in our opening up or closing off to possibility for ourselves, others, and the world.
Will substances become our go-to response to stress, frustration, and insecurity?
Will our college freshmen leave their values at the door?
Will our young adults know how to access their values and passions and live from them with integrity, compassion, and joy? Do we adults know how to do this?
This is the critical gap in K-12 schools. We’re leaving the most important education of our teens up to chance and hope.
I call filling this gap in K-12 schools the transformation of education.
The Mind Mastery Experience, which I’ve designed based on two decades of my own transformational training and practice, is the most powerful and accessible transformational conversation for adolescents.
The Mind Mastery Experience fills a critical gap in K-12 schools. It puts students into the driver's seat of their own lives: it removes hurdles of fear, doubt, insecurity, and stress, and replaces them with confidence, courage, and motivation in ALL areas of their lives.
Through the Mind Mastery Experience, adolescents experience a more direct access to peace of mind, freedom, and enjoyment in navigating all of life's circumstances.
The first 18 years of my career in education is the story of mastering teaching academic content and mastering the art of honoring the sovereign self in each of our adolescents.
The next 18 years of my career in education is the story of transforming how adolescents relate to themselves, others, and the world in a way that empowers and supports them and the well-being of all life.
My goal is to reach 2,000 adolescents through Mind Mastery training over the next 3 years.
With ease, grace, service, and love.
Our adolescents are looking for more. Let’s give it to them: The Mind Mastery Experience.
If you have educator friends or know leaders in education, please share this post with them or put them in touch with me. Together, we'll transform K-12 education.
Much Love. ❤️
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