Videos in the playlist: Hawaii 2011 Youth Summit, Lifeplan in Action, Mt. Tam School Lifeplan 2011, Lifeplan Pilot -- Cincinnati Arts & Technology Center, Lifeplan Institute on ABC, Mentoring and the Star Wars Connection, National Mentoring Summit 2008 -- The Magic of Connections, Lifeplan Mentoring Program Reaches Across the Ocean to Hawaii -- April 2010, Mt. Tam School Lifeplan Presentation. Click the arrow to advance to the next video. If you would like to access individual videos, please visit our youTube playlist here.

What We Do

Delivered through mentors who are certified leaders of the initial Lifeplan tools, we can engage the hearts and minds of the participants in their own strategy for life. In the business world, if you change the conversation with employees, you change the culture; in the mentoring world, we believe that if you change the conversation with the mentee, you change their choices.

We drive the implementation of these tools through a core group of 50 Master Certified (ninja black belt) My Lifeplan facilitators. They will become responsible for certification and train-the-trainer of thousands of mentor facilitators. A two-day certification workshop will qualify a mentor to order materials for participants and to license the use of a facilitator guide and learning materials kit.

This core group is the linchpin in making the implementation work. They donate 1 to 2 days of their time a month. With our support they develop a set of self selection criteria for certification for both themselves and their mentor facilitators. Criteria include selection traits and characteristics, percent of participants registering Lifeplan versus the number trained, recertification standards, and assessment criteria.

The first tool is

My Lifeplan: A Journey of Choices, Decisions, and Consequences
This experiential learning program is a modularized 6-8 hours of instruction that can be facilitated one on one, in small groups of 6-8, or in large groups 100 or more. Modules can be run sequentially or spread out over time in multiple units with application assignments run between the classroom meetings.

My Lifeplan is a highly interactive discovery-learning design where discussion through guided exercises allows the participant to assess themselves and their readiness for the road of life and the many sirens along that road from middle school through high school and college. Each participant completing the modules will be encouraged to register their plan with the Lifeplan Institute.

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The second tool is

Lifeplan Institute’s metaVerse Social Network, where all Lifeplan participants with similar interests can support one other. Participants completing the Lifeplan draft will post their plan to a social network website to share their plans with their mentor, parents, teachers, best friends, and others who have become a part of their Lifeplan board of directors. This website also provides access to a myriad of resources including training rooms where they can learn more about each of the 8 best practices of Lifeplan. Chat rooms, buddy lists, and the creation of personal avatars will allow them to communicate with others and rise in status in the Lifeplan community as they complete additional modules, help others, and achieve milestones in their plan. Games, prizes and rewards for achieving certain levels of earned points can qualify them for trips, scholarships, and merchandise. Being part of the Lifeplan community will become "cool". Imagine a child who wants to be a nurse entering his or her zip code, age, and occupational interest and finding that there are dozens of other kids right there with whom they can network about achieving their aspirations. Watch an introductory video here >>.