This comprehensive workbook utilizes engaging text and exercises to help your students tune into their self-talk, identify their inner critic and coach, and learn how to create an inner dialogue that supports and empowers them in all areas of their lives. Our brains are sending us the messages all day, everyday, about what’s going on inside of and around us, yet most of us have no idea what we’re saying to ourselves. It may be hard to imagine that things we don’t even notice are really having an effect on our lives, but the fact is, almost every ‘self-message’ supports us having either a positive or negative experience of life. For adolescent age students, this is ‘experience’ can have a particularly powerful influence on behavior, relationships, and the kind of choices they make for themselves day to day. A student’s ‘self-talk’ can either be empowering or disempowering, depending on whether the message is coming from an inner critic or inner coach. While the critic uses the language of insults, guilt, fear, and failure to promote feelings of inadequacy, pressure, and helplessness, the inner coach uses the language of support, forgiveness, and encouragement, to remind us that we are worthy, competent, and in control of our own lives. Lesson plans are also included. Testimonials: “With the help of TBLS, we realize we can be anything we want to be. It greatly changes people. I’ve had students tell me if it were not for this program, I know I wouldn’t have gotten that job and that’s a tremendous thing to witness.”- Lolita Johns, Career Development Specialist, TBLS Instructor “TBLS is the most powerful life-skills training program I have encountered in my ten years in the proprietary school industry. It gives students everything they need to succeed in school and in life.”- Matthew Verratti, Senior Vice President, Ultimate Medical Academy 53 Pages

This workbook is filled with engaging text and exercises to help your students understand the meaning and importance of having a healthy support system, and a comprehensive guide to supporting themselves, physically, psychologically, and emotionally. Made up of the people that promote and encourage their growth and success, a student’s support system is one of their greatest resources, but it’s often hard for young people to know who is really ‘on their side’, and who may be holding them back, even hurting them. This workbook gives students easy to use tools to help identify and expand upon current sources of support, as well as identify and mindfully disengage from any detractors. While other people can, and ideally will, provide a good deal of the support in a student’s life, a true sense of empowerment comes from knowing that they can depend, first and foremost, on themselves. In this section, we give student’s myriad tools and resources to promote ‘self-support’, that is, all the things that help ensure physical, mental and emotional well-being. Included are exercises on reducing stress, managing difficult emotions, and staying motivated even during difficult times. Included at the back are self-assessments and lesson plans. Testimonials: “TBLS is a wonderful opportunity to express to students, in a very meaningful way, the importance of communication, managing their emotions, their attitude and outlook and why it is important.to them!” Karen Dempsey, Director, TBLS at Ultimate Medical Academy “TBLS has proven to be transformative for our participants.”- Wendy Jager-Hyman, Executive Director, The Woodhull Institute 43 Pages

This dynamic and empowering workbook gives you all the tools you need to help your students create a vision for their future, set goals to help bring that vision to life, and build a plan of action to enable them to reach their goals. The engaging text and exercises will assist students in clarifying their values and life purpose, identifying helpful resources and sources of support, while encouraging them to see beyond any challenging current circumstances, to what is possible with hard work and a clear sense of direction. It can often be hard for young people to identify who in their lives is helping support their vision for themselves, and who may be holding them back, even hurting them. This workbook gives students easy to use tools to build and/or expand upon their current network of support, as well as identify and mindfully disengage from any detractors. Beyond outside support, students are taught the importance of depending, first and foremost, on themselves. To help encourage that ‘self-support’, they are given myriad tools and resources to promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being, including exercises for reducing stress, managing difficult emotions, and staying motivated even during difficult times. Lesson plans are included at the back. Testimonials: “When I talk to employers, they really have seen a change in our students since TBLS. They clearly see a difference when they interview, they see a difference in the portfolios they present for the interview and they see a difference in the quality of work that they are doing.”- Toni Riggs, Sr. Director of Career Services “We’re thrilled with ThinkBuildLive Success. I cannot imagine a stronger program to support both retention and placement.”- Julia Takeda, Vice President, National Massage Therapy Institute 74 pages

This dynamic workbook utilizes engaging text and exercises to give students the tools they need to recognize their own style of communication, identify what is working well and what is not, while teaching them how to communicate the best of who they are, in an authentic, assertive, and responsive way. Though our body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, choice of words, and listening skills, we tell the world who we are, or at least, who we think we are. During the oft-turbulent years of adolescence, with a self-image in near constant flux, students struggle greatly with this ‘self-expression’; identifying those aspects of themselves that are safe to express, and landing on a mode of communication that feels right while eliciting positive responses from those around them. Lesson plans are included in the back. Testimonials: “In my 30+ years in proprietary education, we’ve always struggled with teaching the soft skills that are so vital to preparing our students to secure jobs and build successful careers. I’ve tried a variety of different life skills programs and ThinkBuildLive Success is the very best I’ve found because: It’s targeted to the education level and abilities of the students in our segment It is very graphically appealing and the interactive workbook approach reinforces the learning process The program can easily be divided up and spread over any program length—from orientation to job placement It is uniquely motivational.” LindaWeldon, Vice President of Academic Affairs at Ultimate Medical Academy and incoming Chair of the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools. 54 PAGES

Having a healthy sense of self is critical for adolescents as they try to navigate the complex social, emotional, and academic terrain that makes up their daily lives. Most however are unaware of how they perceive themselves, let alone how they can exert some control over that perception. An adolescent’s day-to-day experience of life is equally impacted by their perception of the people and world around them, but again, the degree and quality of that influence often remains unconscious. This workbook is filled with engaging text and exercises to help you guide your students toward a better understanding of their self-perception (what I call here ‘self-picture’), and view of the world (what I refer to as their ‘outlook’), with the goal of strengthening what is working, and improving upon what is not. The result for students is greater self-esteem, healthier relationships, and a better quality of life in, and outside of school. Lesson plans are also included. Testimonials: “TBLS offers a unique blend of self-reflection, self-improvement, and self-empowerment tools to guide students through graduation and onto successful careers.”- Julene Mohr Robinson, Founder KIPP Houston High School “With an expertise in student and career success, Elizabeth brings a creative and powerful approach to designing lessons and resources that facilitate engagement, persistence and career readiness. Her contributions in the areas of student and career success have positively impacted our students, instructors and our career-readiness teams.” Amanda Lynne Smith, Dean of Curriculum at Ultimate Medical Academy