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Offered in January & February
Life Design Foundations — Illuminate A 4-week experience in self-awareness, strengths, and the art of seeing yourself clearly.
Before you can design a life, you need to know what you're working with.
In the Illuminate Sprint, young people take a real look at who they are — not who they think they should be, or who others expect them to become. Through live coaching, a character strengths assessment, and weekly Life Design Journal prompts, students begin to name what makes them uniquely themselves and understand how those qualities can become the foundation for everything they build next.
This is the recommended entry point into the GEM Lab — and one of the most clarifying experiences a young person can have at any age.
Who this sprint serves:
Discoverers (ages 11–14) — Discovering their strengths vocabulary for the first time. Learning that what makes them different is exactly what makes them powerful.
Designers (ages 15–18) — Moving past "I don't know what I'm good at" into a clear, named understanding of their strengths — and how to use them intentionally.
Launchers (ages 18–26) — Returning to the foundation when everything feels uncertain. Strengths don't change with a diploma — but understanding them deeply changes everything about what comes next.
What students do across four sessions:
Discover and explore their top character strengths through a guided assessment
Learn the language of Life Design and why it matters at every stage of life
Reflect on what energizes them, what drains them, and what that reveals
Begin their Life Design Journal — a personal record of insight they'll build on all year
What every student walks away with:
A completed character strengths profile — their personal GEM map
A Life Design Journal with four weeks of guided reflection
A concrete personal action plan for the weeks ahead
The language to talk about themselves with clarity and confidence
Program Schedule: Four 2-hour sessions · One month · Saturdays 9:00–11:00am ET · Live via Zoom January and February enrollment windows available
Offered in January & February
Life Design Foundations — Illuminate A 4-week experience in self-awareness, strengths, and the art of seeing yourself clearly.
Before you can design a life, you need to know what you're working with.
In the Illuminate Sprint, young people take a real look at who they are — not who they think they should be, or who others expect them to become. Through live coaching, a character strengths assessment, and weekly Life Design Journal prompts, students begin to name what makes them uniquely themselves and understand how those qualities can become the foundation for everything they build next.
This is the recommended entry point into the GEM Lab — and one of the most clarifying experiences a young person can have at any age.
Who this sprint serves:
Discoverers (ages 11–14) — Discovering their strengths vocabulary for the first time. Learning that what makes them different is exactly what makes them powerful.
Designers (ages 15–18) — Moving past "I don't know what I'm good at" into a clear, named understanding of their strengths — and how to use them intentionally.
Launchers (ages 18–26) — Returning to the foundation when everything feels uncertain. Strengths don't change with a diploma — but understanding them deeply changes everything about what comes next.
What students do across four sessions:
Discover and explore their top character strengths through a guided assessment
Learn the language of Life Design and why it matters at every stage of life
Reflect on what energizes them, what drains them, and what that reveals
Begin their Life Design Journal — a personal record of insight they'll build on all year
What every student walks away with:
A completed character strengths profile — their personal GEM map
A Life Design Journal with four weeks of guided reflection
A concrete personal action plan for the weeks ahead
The language to talk about themselves with clarity and confidence
Program Schedule: Four 2-hour sessions · One month · Saturdays 9:00–11:00am ET · Live via Zoom January and February enrollment windows available