🎯 HUMAN SKILLS FOUNDATIONS · AGES 16-18
Equipping Young Adults to Thrive
At ages 16-18, learners face complex choices and define who they want to become. This program builds the professional presence, emotional maturity, financial literacy, and critical thinking that separate prepared young adults from unprepared ones.
7
Units
21
Lessons
21
Hours
7
Certificates
$159
$7/hour — less than a single tutoring session
12-month access · Self-paced · All 7 units
🛡️ 14-day full refund if it’s not right for your child
✓ 21 hours of guided learning ($7/hr)
✓ Real-world scenarios & activities
✓ Reflective prompts & journals
✓ Quizzes + life skills reports
✓ 7 certificates of completion
✓ Works on laptop, tablet, or phone
7 units included — click any to jump to details
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The Self-Starter
Believe in Yourself
Master Your Mind
Make a Decision
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The Peacemaker
It’s OK to Not Be OK
Being Happy
See the Whole Story
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The Athlete
Healthy Eating on the Go
Staying Fit
Health Tools & Hacks
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The Voice
Professional Presence
The Polite Pest
Make Your Case
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The Groundbreaker
Design Thinking
Visual Effects in Film
Wild Inventions
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The Financier
Your First Budget
Beyond the Paycheck
Credit & Debt
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The Tech Wizard
Mastering AI
Ethical Dilemmas in AI
Future-Proofing
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What a unit Looks Like
🧭 The Tech Wizard – Preview
Interactive scenarios · Reflective prompts · Comprehension quiz
Your child works through each section at their own pace
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The Self-Starter
Independent Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to trust your instincts and lead with clarity and purpose. This unit helps students build genuine self-confidence, strengthen mental discipline, and make thoughtful decisions using structured frameworks — not guesswork or peer pressure.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students build real self-belief rooted in evidence (not false confidence), develop mental discipline and focus under pressure, and practice making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information — the exact skill that separates leaders from followers in every field.
What Your Learner Will Master
✓Builds genuine self-belief rooted in evidence, not false confidence
✓Develops mental discipline and focus under real pressure
✓Makes confident decisions using structured frameworks, not guesswork
✓Takes ownership of their path with clarity about who they are
Lesson 1
Believe in Yourself
Real confidence comes from knowing your strengths not ignoring your weaknesses.
Build genuine self-confidence by knowing your strengths so well that doubt can’t take the wheel. Evidence-based confidence not empty affirmations.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Master Your Mind
Your thoughts shape your reality learn to shape your thoughts.
Learn to control negative self-talk, manage anxiety, and train your brain to focus on what you can control instead of what you can’t. Mental fitness for real life.
1 hour
Lesson 3
Make a Decision
Indecision is a decision usually the worst one.
Practice making high-stakes decisions with incomplete information the exact skill that separates leaders from followers in every classroom, career, and life situation.
1 hour
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The Peacemaker
Empathy Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to care for your well-being and connect with others deeply. This unit explores mental health openly, builds sustainable happiness habits based on science, and develops perspective-taking skills that define emotionally intelligent leaders.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students normalise mental health conversations and learn when to seek help, discover what research actually says about happiness (it’s not what most people think), and practice seeing situations from multiple viewpoints before forming opinions.
What Your Learner Will Master
✓Normalises mental health conversations and knows when to seek help
✓Builds sustainable happiness habits rooted in science, not wishful thinking
✓Understands others’ perspectives even when they conflict with their own
✓Develops emotional resilience for the pressures of late adolescence
Lesson 1
It's OK to Not Be OK
Struggling doesn’t mean failing it means you’re human.
Explore mental health openly. Understand that struggling is normal, learn to recognise when you need support, and know exactly where to turn. The conversation every teen needs.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Being Happy
Happiness isn’t found it’s built, one habit at a time.
Discover what research says about happiness it’s not what you think. Build practical habits that sustain well-being beyond momentary pleasure or social media highlights.
1 hour
Lesson 3
See the Whole Story
There are always more sides to a story than the one you heard first.
Practice perspective-taking learning to understand situations from multiple viewpoints before forming opinions. The foundation of empathy, leadership, and good judgment.
1 hour
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The Athlete
Healthy Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to prioritise health with habits that fit your real life. This unit helps students balance nutrition, rest, and movement — building routines that support energy, focus, and well-being in the real world of busy schedules, limited budgets, and screen-heavy lifestyles.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students learn to make healthy eating choices when busy or broke, build fitness approaches that work alongside digital lifestyles, and discover health resources and tools they probably didn’t know existed. Practical health for real teenage life.
What Your Learner Will Master
✓Makes healthy eating choices in fast-paced, real-world situations
✓Builds fitness routines that work around busy, screen-heavy lifestyles
✓Navigates health information critically — separating science from trends
✓Uses health tools and services proactively, not just reactively
Lesson 1
Healthy Eating on the Go
You don’t need a kitchen to eat well you need a strategy.
Learn to make nutritious choices when you’re busy, broke, or surrounded by junk food. Practical strategies for real teenage life not idealised meal plans nobody follows.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Staying Fit in the Digital Age
Your body doesn’t care about your screen time but your mind does.
Build a fitness approach that works alongside your digital life. Movement strategies for desk-bound, screen-heavy realities not gym-rat fantasies.
1 hour
Lesson 3
Health Tools, Services, and Hacks
The best health hack is knowing what’s available before you need it.
Discover health resources, apps, and services you probably didn’t know existed. Learn to take charge of your own health proactively before problems become emergencies.
1 hour
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The Voice
Communicative Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to speak with confidence, clarity, and professional poise. This unit builds communication skills for the real world — presenting yourself professionally, following up persistently, and making persuasive arguments that get your ideas heard and acted on.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students learn to project credibility in professional settings, master the art of persistent follow-up without being annoying, and build and deliver compelling arguments. These are the communication skills that open doors — in interviews, meetings, and every important conversation.
What Your Learner Will Master
✓Presents themselves professionally in interviews, meetings, and formal settings
✓Follows up persistently without being annoying — the “polite pest” skill
✓Builds and delivers compelling arguments for ideas they believe in
✓Communicates with authority across different contexts and audiences
Lesson 1
Professional Presence
You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Learn to project confidence, credibility, and composure in professional settings from handshakes to presentations to email etiquette. The presence that gets you taken seriously.
1 hour
Lesson 2
The Polite Pest
Persistence wins but only when paired with professionalism.
Master the art of following up. Getting responses, staying visible, and being persistent without crossing the line into annoying. The skill that gets opportunities others miss.
1 hour
Lesson 3
Make Your Case
The best idea in the room only wins if someone can argue for it.
Build and present persuasive arguments. The skill that gets your ideas heard in classrooms, boardrooms, and everywhere between. Logic + emotion + delivery = impact.
1 hour
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The Groundbreaker
Innovative Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to innovate, create, and solve problems in ways nobody expects. This unit explores design thinking methodology, media production and perception, and the creative courage required to pursue ideas that don’t fit neatly into existing categories.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students learn the 5-stage design thinking process used by the world’s top companies, go behind the scenes of visual effects to understand how media shapes belief, and study the wildest inventions in human history to understand the mindset behind innovation.
What Your Learner Will Master
✓Applies design thinking methodology to real problems they care about
✓Understands how visual effects and media production shape perception
✓Develops creative courage to pursue unconventional ideas
✓Presents innovative solutions with clarity and confidence
Lesson 1
Design Thinking
The world’s best companies solve problems the same way now you will too.
Learn the 5-stage design thinking process that Apple, Google, and IDEO use to solve problems. Then apply it to challenges you actually care about. Methodology meets motivation.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Visual and Special Effects in Film
What you see on screen isn’t what you think and that changes everything.
Go behind the scenes of visual effects. Understand how media shapes what we believe, and build the critical media literacy that protects you from manipulation.
1 hour
Lesson 3
Out-of-this-World Inventions
Every invention that changed the world was once called impossible.
Study the wildest inventions in human history and learn the mindset, process, and courage behind turning impossible ideas into reality. Your ideas deserve the same treatment.
1 hour
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The Financier
Money Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to manage your money with confidence and long-term vision. This unit builds real financial literacy creating budgets that work, understanding income beyond salary, and navigating credit and debt decisions that protect your financial future.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students create and maintain a realistic personal budget, understand everything between earning money and having money (taxes, deductions, benefits), and learn how credit works, why debt is dangerous when misused, and how to make borrowing decisions wisely.
What Your Learner Will Master
✓Creates and maintains a realistic personal budget
✓Understands income beyond salary benefits, deductions, taxes
✓Navigates credit, debt, and borrowing decisions wisely
✓Builds financial independence habits before they need them
Lesson 1
Your First Budget Plan
A budget is a plan for your money not a punishment.
Build your first real budget. One that accounts for income, expenses, saving, and the unexpected. The foundation of financial independence starts with this single skill.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Beyond the Paycheck
There’s a lot that happens between earning money and having money.
Understand everything between earning and having taxes, deductions, benefits, and what your payslip actually means. Financial literacy most adults still don’t have.
1 hour
Lesson 3
Credit, Debt, and Decisions
Credit is a tool debt is what happens when you use it wrong.
Learn how credit works, why debt is dangerous when misused, and how to make borrowing decisions that protect your financial future. The lesson that saves thousands.
1 hour
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The Tech Wizard
Technology Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to use technology responsibly, strategically, and with purpose. This unit explores AI tools for work and study, the ethical dilemmas technology creates, and the mindset and skills that keep you relevant no matter how fast technology evolves.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students learn to use AI as a powerful tool for research, writing, and creative work, navigate the hardest ethical questions about AI, and build the adaptability and learning agility that future-proof any career. The digital skills that matter most aren’t technical — they’re human.
What Your Learner Will Master
✓Uses AI tools strategically for work, study, and creative projects
✓Navigates ethical dilemmas that come with powerful technology
✓Builds a digital skill set that stays relevant as technology evolves
✓Thinks critically about AI’s impact on careers, society, and their own future
Lesson 1
Mastering AI for Work and Study
AI doesn’t replace thinking it amplifies it.
Learn to use AI as a powerful tool for research, writing, analysis, and creative work. Understand its limits, your responsibilities, and how to get results that actually matter.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Ethical Dilemmas in AI
Technology creates power ethics decides how to use it.
Explore the hardest questions about AI bias, privacy, job displacement, creative ownership. Build your own ethical framework for navigating technology’s impact on society.
1 hour
Lesson 3
Future-Proofing Yourself
The best way to predict the future is to prepare for all of them.
Build the mindset and skills that keep you relevant no matter how fast technology changes adaptability, learning agility, and the human judgment machines can’t replicate.
1 hour
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