Understand yourself. Build your learning table. Use what is available. Speak up. Do the work.
A half-day, interactive learning and ethical-AI experience for young people ages 13–17.
Submitting this form saves your details. A seat is confirmed only once payment is completed.
Parent or guardian registration required. Exact venue shared with registered families after confirmation.
They drift away slowly.
Eventually, a capable young person starts believing that learning, opportunity, or success simply is not for them.
Successful Learning Today interrupts that drift.
Behavior, grades, or disengagement never tell the whole story. Before anyone reaches for a fix, the young person gets room to look honestly at themselves.
Participants identify strengths, interests, values, preferences, the conditions where they do their best thinking, and the goals they actually care about. We call this a learning profile — flexible, current, and revisable. Not a fixed label, and never a permanent learning style.
Honest assessment is not self-criticism. Youth take an even-handed look at distractions, habits, unclear expectations, missing support, strategies they have never been taught, and work that is simply not finished yet.
No blame. No deficit language. Naming something accurately is what makes it workable.
Expectation without structure is pressure. So each young person builds a practical support structure they can actually use on Monday morning.
Learning strategies, work habits, a mentor circle, real opportunities, ethical AI tools, self-advocacy language, and one next action they commit to.
After returning to public school, one of my teenage sons found himself in a conversation with his counselor about classes that did not fit where he was trying to go. He explained what was not working, named what he wanted, and participated in changing his schedule. That moment stayed with me—not because every request should automatically be granted, but because he understood enough about himself to participate in building a better solution.
I want more young people to have the language, confidence, resourcefulness, and responsibility to do the same.
Describe a flexible personal learning profile
Name a meaningful goal and immediate next action
Identify strategies and conditions that support learning
Build a real-world mentor and opportunity circle
Use AI as a thinking and research tool without surrendering judgment
Protect personal information and verify AI output
Practice a respectful self-advocacy conversation
Communicate what support they need and what responsibility they will accept
Complete a youth-generated Learning Voice Plan to bring home
Family, coaches, teachers, and trusted adults who already see the whole person — not just the grade.
Someone a few steps ahead in the work: a professional, an upperclassman, a program leader, a community member doing what the young person is curious about.
Books, research, structured practice, and AI used as a thinking tool — never as a substitute for a person.
AI can help you access ideas. It cannot replace a trustworthy human relationship.
In the Expert Lens exercise, participants examine publicly documented, cited principles from people who do the work they admire, and ask how those principles apply to their own next step. No invented quotes. No impersonation. No tool speaking as a person.
What you put into a public tool does not stay yours. We practice what to keep out.
If you cannot confirm it somewhere else, you do not repeat it.
Every system reflects the material it was built from. Read accordingly.
Confident output is not the same as correct output.
Say what you used and how. Your name goes on your thinking.
The tool proposes. You decide.
The curriculum is informed by human-centered student AI guidance, including the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Students (read the UNESCO AI Competency Framework for Students) and California Department of Education AI guidance (read the California Department of Education AI guidance).
AI can help you think, research, organize, and practice—but it cannot care about your future more than you do.
“Every time you continually postpone the work, you reschedule your appointment with success.”
Every participant leaves with a short, youth-generated document — Bring It to the Table: My Learning Voice Plan. The young person writes it. The parent or guardian responds. That is the whole structure.
Three responses. No rebuttal, no correction, no negotiation in the first pass.
Some families want to go further after that conversation. The Family Table Alignment Assessment is a two-minute diagnostic for parents and guardians who want to see which of the five legs of their family table needs reinforcement.
Take the Family Table AssessmentAlicia is a Certified Professional Integrative Coach (CPIC), former chief people and culture executive, mother of five sons, and experienced facilitator who has coached, supervised, and developed young people through youth-development employment and community work. She also created a Black Parent Success initiative connecting families, students, and school leaders.
Young people ages 13–17 who are curious, capable, and ready to take a more active role in their own learning — including those who are thriving and those who have quietly checked out.
No. Personal AI accounts are not required. A participant may use an existing age-appropriate account only with your permission and subject to the provider's terms, and a device-free, facilitator-led alternative is available for every activity.
No. We do not teach subject content or work through homework. This workshop builds self-understanding, learning strategy, mentor circles, ethical AI use, and self-advocacy language.
No. This is an educational and coaching workshop. It is not therapy, counseling, diagnosis, or treatment, and it does not replace care from a licensed professional.
Something to write with, a water bottle, and a goal they care about. Devices are optional; everything works without one.
A parent or guardian joins for the final 30 minutes, when youth share their Learning Voice Plan. The first three hours are youth-only so young people can speak freely.
We collect the youth's first name and last initial only. No youth email, phone, school ID, grades, IEP documents, diagnoses, or social handles. Youth work products belong to the youth and go home with them.
The workshop is in Mountain House, California. The exact venue address is shared directly with registered families after confirmation.
There is an optional accommodation field in the registration form. Describe what would help in practical terms — please do not submit medical records, diagnoses, or IEP documents.
Final registration and transfer terms will be shown before payment opens.
Submitting this form saves your details. A seat is confirmed only once payment is completed.
Parent or guardian registration required. Exact venue shared with registered families after confirmation.
Schools, churches, nonprofits, homeschool communities, and youth programs can host this workshop for their own young people. Tell us about your group and we will follow up with formats, scheduling, and pricing.