Essential Proteen® Curriculum
Overview
*Published under the name of "Mia Adler"*
Geared towards high school students, the Essential Proteen® program teaches the importance of understanding and applying the concepts of Goals, Motivation, Opportunity & Decision-Making, Knowing Yourself, and Managing & Facilitating Change. It is useful for further developing the skills of students who are already self-aware and motivated, and for increasing knowledge and skill in students who are challenged in these areas.
The primary goal of the Essential Proteen® program is to provide high school students with fundamental tools to navigate and plan for their personal, academic and professional lives. These skills are meant to bridge ambition and desire with real-life application and outcome. As with any skill or tool, mastery comes from practice, appropriate guidance and commitment to understanding. These skills are about empowerment of the individual, action and self-exploration. It is through learning these skills that adolescents can become better decision-makers, have ownership of their choices and eventually feel confident and secure as they mature into adulthood.
This program has been accepted by the American School Counseling Association as a professional resource on their website.
Detailed Overview
Unit 1: Goals
In this unit, we teach students how to write and set both short and long-term goals. They learn how to determine if a goal is realistic, and how to write a goal that is measurable in order to track progress. Finally, our students grow to understand how setting appropriate goals can help them to clarify exactly what it is they would like to accomplish.Unit 2: Motivation
We assist students in actively exploring what motivates them to accomplish tasks, and why motivation is so important in achieving goals. We discuss when they are easily motivated, and in what situations they find it difficult to become motivated. Finally, we examine how to become motivated in those difficult situations.Unit 3: Opportunity & Decision-making
Recognizing opportunity and knowing what to do when opportunity knocks are two key skills that students will begin to acquire. In this unit, we teach students how to recognize opportunity based upon their motivators and goals, and how to seek counsel from family, friends and professionals when making important decisions.Unit 4: Know Yourself
Knowing one's self involves making life choices based upon what one values and holds as personal truth. We work experientially with students, helping them explore their likes and dislikes, recognize what their strengths and weaknesses are and identify what characteristics they see as making up their true personality. Once this is done, we help students make connections to the previous units by investigating how important it may be to base motivations, goals and decisions in your true self.Unit 5: Change
Facing change in life is inevitable. This unit demonstrates to students that by being an active participant in their own lives, they can often manage and facilitate change based upon their values and goals. This final unit taps into each student's ability to ultimately be responsible for their own path in life, and to recognize the potential impact that they can have on their own lives and in the lives of others. In the final activities of this unit, we reinforce the links between all units, showing the direct connections between motivation, goal setting, decision-making, knowing yourself and managing change.Workshop Schedule & Registration Information
Although this program is taught all over the country, Mia teaches this program to teens and their parents as a special one-day workshop just once per year. If you and your teen want to have the powerful experience of working directly with Mia and the Essential Proteen® program, please contact us at Info@MiaSharon.com for more information.
How to bring Essential Proteen® into your child's school or a clinical setting.
The Essential Proteen® curriculum is an asset to compliment a variety of school programming from the counseling and advising departments, to health education, to incorporating elements of wellness and success in classes on psychology and sociology. In addition, this program can be a vital link for teens in either in-patient or out-patient clinical therapy who struggle with organization, goal setting and simply getting in touch with their inner drive. As a parent or professional, you can advocate for this type of programming in your community. Mia is also personally available to assist organizations and schools in incorporating the Essential Proteen® curriculum into new or existing programming.
Purchase Essential Proteen through Research Press for your school or organization. Once on the Research Press home page search the Author Index under "Mia Adler" and the Essential Proteen® program.