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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” —Aristotle Create a flow state in life, understanding what one is passionate about and how different parts of an individual being interact – mind, body, emotion, and spirit. Maximize potential of flow to bring about well-being from which happiness and success result.

“In hierarchies, social engagement is optional; in the Adaptive model, it is required.” – Christopher Creel. Our aim here is to help students gain a sense of what issues they care about in the world and how they want to engage with those issues on a political, community, or personal level.

Led by Neil Takemoto and Bonnie Roy, students work to develop the tools of self-organization to help them grow in group self-awareness, understand their own aspirations and unique contribution, and practice decision making through truly democratic and collectively designed methods.

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”-Steve Jobs. Help leaders identify the changes they want to make in the world, quantify how they will know the change is being made, and put in place strategies to do the work.

Delivered as a series of interactive projects, students learn and develop a range of practical life skills through hands-on activities in home cooking, cleaning, job interviewing, wood work, basic home maintenance, gardening, car repair, and much more.