Are you ready for Life?
The Life Ready youth programme and workshops combine the best of the MY CAREER PATH programme and the CATAPULT YOUR CAREER and FINE YOU project.
In our work with youth, teachers, companies and startups, we observe that youth don’t have many opportunities to develop life skills in depth.
Thus was born the Life Ready program, suitable for students grades 9-12, which can be delivered in 1 to 6 workshops.
About the program
The program can occur in a class period, on a day set aside for career guidance and development and orientation, or after school.
The program is designed to help students understand more about their interests and talents, explore related careers and develop skills for success, and develop financial literacy.
Elements of the program
Career Profile
At this stage, students have the opportunity to do the CATAPULT YOUR CAREER online profile, and gain direct access to employers, courses and apprenticeship opportunities right now.
Career goal and plan
At this stage, students have the opportunity to go through CATAPULT YOUR CAREER’s gamified online goal-setting training, setting and achieving one goal of their own.
Skills for success or superpowers
Financial literacy
At this point, students have the opportunity to use the FINE YOU board game to test their financial decisions and choose a path to financial freedom.
Benefits of the program
Identifying strengths and self-reflection
“You’ve got time” is a great refrain, but time spent in the wrong place and leading to a lack of motivation and desire to progress can’t be helpful.
Learning about professions, fields of activity and appears
Talking to mentors helps, but often the student does not see themselves as the mentor or practitioner of the profession and needs to explore it more objectively.
Developing goal-setting and planning skills
From author Mihai Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow , to Angela Duckworth’s Girt , to Sir Ken Robinson, all authors agree that persistence in a meaningful human goal is key to success and satisfaction.
Developing financial literacy knowledge and skills
Understanding the choices we make regarding financial freedom and planning are keys to success that are difficult to understand, but not through play.
How can we do a program or workshop at my school?
If you’d like to invite us to do a LifeReady program or workshop at your school, fill out the contact form below, letting us know which school you work at, which grade it is, and how much time you can commit to LifeReady.
Students who complete the workshop receive a certificate of participation, and those who complete some of the challenges receive a certificate of achievement.
FAQ
LifeReady is appropriate for students in grades 9 through 12, regardless of their academic achievement or interests. The workshop focuses on meta-skills for success that are useful for all youth.
Yes, most often the program helps them validate their decision, make a plan or reflect on their current one, and prepare to withstand obstacles on the way to their goal.
In this case, it’s best to do a career profile with your students and give them access to CATAPULT YOUR CAREER training that can earn them a certificate of achievement.
You can talk to your child’s teachers and help invite us to class.
Programs are group only, with a minimum of 5 students per group.
From January 2025 the programmes will be paid for and you can get the price once you have contacted us and specified how many hours and how many children we will work with.
You can give a LifeReady workshop to a class by sponsoring it.
