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Encouragement Labs are psychologically safe forums facilitated to share impactful solutions to everyday issues. These keynotes, or 60-90-minute in-person and online sessions build self-respect, confidence and trustworthy community.

Those interested in improving their Quality of Life can then become peer mentors focusing on the following skills:

Kindhearted Power
The Ancient Art of Truth Telling
Positive Imagination: your key to flourishing
The Alchemy of Self-Wisdom
Staying Authentic
Original Thinking
Cultivating Intimate Relationships
The Multi-faceted Power of Wonder
The Practical Optimist's Guide to Life

In Young Adult’s Guide to Balance and Wonder, you learn to and apply a matrix of life hacks including, cognitive replenishment, positive imagination, self-wisdom, emotionally intelligent leadership, healthy relationships, and respectful conflict resolution to construct a personalized success roadmap to flourish in today's world.

This adventure is brimming with encouraging truths, case studies, proven techniques, and ancient wisdom to serve young adults (18+) as an inoculation against the cynicism and hopelessness that permeates many aspects of our daily lives. Participation entails a three hour monthly commitment for Learners and a four hour monthly commitment for mentors.

Graduates qualify to become peer mentors and are prepared to master their quality of life. These skillsets develop enlightened leaders through the application of kindhearted power to achieve what is beyond your imagination.

Program Course Content:

Month 1

The Alchemy of Self Wisdom: We explore five realms to assess your personal strengths and areas of growth with clarity to develop our physical, cognitive, and emotional selves. In short, you design a blueprint to know where to pay attention so you can most easily flourish.

Month 2

Emotional Ease: Acquire the steps to command an emotionally rich vocabulary that empowers closeness and mutually beneficial conflict resolution. Possess clarity, balance, and self-appreciation.

Month 3

Influence and the Authentic Life: Personal Integration & Quality of Life. Where to pay attention to garner the best outcomes possible. Cognitive Replenishment, Positive Imagination, and How to be comfortable with your most authentic self. True Power knows it need not prove itself.

Month 4

Healthy Relationships: How to employ beneficial relationship methods that encourage authenticity and healthy boundaries based on your unique value system, priorities, and preferences.

Month 5

Leading with Style and Presence: Acquire the Leadership Skills of Perspective, Compassion, Awe, Creativity, Collaboration, and Synergy to achieve dazzling outcomes with teams, friends and family.

Month 6

Unveiling your Adulting with Confidence Skills via Wonder, Wisdom, and Celebration. Newly certified Adulting with Confidence graduates celebrate your wholeness, authenticity, and personal power as you own and unveil your updated Masterpiece of Self.

Month 7 and beyond

Ongoing Support , Mentoring and Encouragement for and from the Illuminating Humankindness Community.

As Program graduates, alum are
welcomed to:

Attend monthly briefings or specialty topic workshops of interest on a drop-in basis.
Train as Peer Mentors to enrich future program cohorts.
Repeat the program to go deeper into leadership outcomes as part of the mentoring community as the adventure continues.

Adulting with Confidence Graduates possess:

Resourcefulness, Wellness, Resilience, Confidence, Self-acceptance, self-regulation, self-appreciation, personal coherence, collaborative problem solving, interdependence, kindhearted power, speaking truth to power, authenticity, positive imagination, practical optimism, emotional literacy, cognitive replenishment, trustworthiness, wholeness not perfection, healthy relationship construction, agreement creation, healthy boundaries, and joy in real life.

Dear Donors, Mentors and Community,
Your support encourages our community to develop and employ the skillsets required to solve complex problems with compassion, respect, and mutual benefit to counter the sense of discouragement experienced by many at this time. In an inclusive and supportive environment, we learn to transcend the drag of negativity and cynicism to conquer life’s challenges with kindhearted power, stellar problem-solving, resilience, and enhanced imaginations in tow.

Contact Us to apply for a Program or mentorship.

Fun, sassy, and uplifting. Join two authentic women who use their curls as a metaphor for belonging; to share their joyful and instructive experience to encourage all people who feel marginalized.

Michelle Purnell Hepburn and Michelle Sherman smooth the rough edges of inclusion by exploring how their curls unfolded into a nexus of learning about equity, belonging, and diversity.

Learn how being an honorary Curly Girl can aid you on your path of self-discovery. Identify specific techniques that support you and your allies to laugh, learn, and grow.

The Curly Girl Mission:

To joyfully generate enthusiasm about how beautiful life is and we all are using anecdotes, proven techniques, and encouragement.

Gain perspective, inspiration, and practical tools to improve your world lovingly and compassionately.

Explore the power of your authentic presence to accomplish your greatest good

Learn how to listen and employ that inner voice to bring greater peace and equity into your world.

In Lesson One, I AM Creative, we cover:

Owning our ability to make positive changes
How to begin making positive changes
Harnessing the power of your emotional and intellectual creativity for the greatest good

In Lesson Two, Worthiness Rules, we cover: