Module Topic Guide
If you have a specific topic area you want to focus on with your Guide team, this is a great place to start. We’ve outlined our modules by topic to help you navigate quickly to resources to help guide the discussion.
You can access the modules any one of three ways:
See the Module drop-down menu at the top of this page and every page.
Click here for the Detailed Module Table of Contents at the bottom of this page The Table of Contents contains links to all the modules and activities.
By accessing the modules using the eleven boxes below..
Prompts and activities to get to know each other on a deeper level. For use throughout your team’s engagement.
Deeper Values
Activities to guide discussion and exploration of core values.
One of the main sources for our program, activities guided by the book .
Learning from Others
Shifts focus to people we admire and learning from them.
“Imagine It”
Flex creative muscles in an imaginative activity
Looking to the future
College is a big life event, dive into many of the questions and decisions young people explore to maximize this time.
Self Reflection
Several exercises to help reflect on our true motivations and desires and what our life has told us so far.
Think meditational
Wide variety of other thought-provoking articles that promote self discovery and critical thinking
College Topics
College is a big life event, dive into many of the questions and decisions young people explore to maximize this time.
Mixed Bag
Wide variety of other thought-provoking articles that promote self discovery and critical thinking.
Current Issues
Detailed Module Table of Contents
Table of Contents
This page lists the modules and topics in order. See this page for a sorting of topics by type of activity (videos, articles, books, exercises).
** Marks a Module added after October 2020.
1. Get to know you
1A. Answer a question of your choice (prompts for self-revelation)
1B. Nine dot exercise (fun, to reveal a goal of the program)
1C. How’s it going (a commonly asked question that here should be answered deeply)
2. Designing Your Life (DYL)
2A. Overview (core part of the program)
2B. Videos and other resources on Designing Your Life (includes some articles)
2C. Write a lifeview and a workview (the most imprtanbt exercises in DYL)
3. Deeper values
3A. Core Values Exercise (simple, but revealing)
3B. What’s Really Important? (short, but requires lots of thinking)
4. Thinking about and learning from others
4A. Interview project (takes time and initiative, but we give you sample questions)
5. “Imagine it” (requires creative energy)
6. Self-reflection
6C. Whom do you trust? (for groups interested in assessing the influences in our lives)
7. Looking to the future (who might you be 10/15/25 years from now)
8. Think meditationally (requires deep thinking and outlining/writing)
9. College topics
9F. Why Teach by Mark Edmunson (groups can pick from separate essays that make up the book)
10. Mixed bag (pick one or more of 18 practical NYT articles)
11. Current issues
11B. Racism and anti-racism (choose from several articles)