SYSTEMS
Schools are often the epicenter of adolescent life; we want to help you lead the way as students navigate a complex, modern world.
Dig Deep
We work with schools to re-imagine and elevate health, wellness and life skills learning, both in direct student instruction and teacher training.
Extensive conversations with students, parents, educators, and health care specialists underscore the need for self-care as a preventive intervention for the challenges of modern adolescence.
You are extraordinary.
As someone who lends your mind and heart to working with adolescents, you walk a tightrope between order and lightness—inspiring and drawing students in, while providing them guidance and structure.
You’re a role model, instilling core values like dignity and respect, as well as a teacher, making curriculum come alive. And when the buzzer rings and the next group take their seats, you’re on-the-fly adapting to a whole new set of personalities, needs, circumstances, and chemistry.
But you’re not in this alone. As a community, it’s all our jobs to empower students to make healthy choices and better balance the powerful influence of adolescence on a teen’s social, emotional, and educational experiences.
Life is a practice
Self-development and life design are essential to experiencing better health outcomes and emotional resilience. A healthy mind and body nourishes every aspect of life. As strategists and design thinkers, we draw from evidence-based and contemporary content to provide tools that are fresh, informative, and inspiring.
Our work to date
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Spring 2020 Launch: ANGST Film-based Mental Health Program
Let's join together to help families lower stress and learn how to support each other. Adolescent anxiety is at an all-time high, with COVID-19 turning life upside down and isolating teens at a critical developmental age. The Practice of Life is partnering with ANGST to provide a crisis response to support the mental health of students and families during this time of uncertainty.
Delivered in collaboration with school leadership, we have created a community-custom dashboard where the ANGST film, district messaging, and support materials in a portal that includes:
Screening of ANGST: 56 min
Family Discussion Guides for students, teachers and parents (PDF download)
Interview Panel Discussion with Kate Larson and mental health expert, interviewed by ANGST producer Karin Gornick
Building Your Capacity for Self-Care (PDF download)
Local Resource Directory therapists, school staff links, mental health organizations, hotlines
Survey to measure the impact on changing perspectives, awareness, and connection to resources
You are part of the team. How can we help?
With your collaboration, we’ll gain new insights on how to best support the needs of teens and those who care for them.
You are essential to help uncover the most promising personal sustainability practices — critical for learning and meaningful connection.
We’ll open up the conversation and collaborate with community partners to explore new and important ways of thinking about adolescents’ health and wellness.
All together, we’ll raise awareness about the life skills needed to help teens grow into healthy adults and for education work to better nurture all the people that are a part of it.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou