Navigate What’s Next
My Compass is a program to help students build resilience skills for well-being regardless of what they have done previously or path they plan to take in the future. This program provides opportunities to optimize strengths, improve relationships, and handle challenges through practical skill-building activities and exercises.
Prepare for transitions to new phases of your life
My Compass uses a sailboat metaphor for navigating life. Students will explore their strengths, thoughts, emotions, and values to help them cope with stressful situations. The program is taught as a class and includes unit content activites as well as activities for students to complete between units to practice in real-life situations.
Learn moreSessions
Each My Compass unit covers new information and builds on previous lessons. Units use a mix of interactive activities, self-reflection, and real-world applications.
Session 1
The Sailboat
Learn about the sailboat metaphor, a framework used throughout the program to help students explore thoughts, feelings, stressors, and abilities.
Session 2
Focus on Your Sails – Enhancing Strengths
Students will enhance their strengths and unlock new tools to help make the most of them.
Session 3
Mastering Attention
Learn how our attention works, why we focus on negative things, and how to focus on the positive.
Session 4
The Power of Thoughts
Learn about the link between thoughts and feelings, and tools for positive thinking.
Session 5
Focus on Your Compass, Part 1 – Identifying Emotions
Students discover and understand their emotions and learn strategies for regulating them in stressful times.
Session 6
Focus on Your Compass, Part 2 – Regulating Emotions
Learn and practice mindfulness tools and techniques for regulating emotions.
Session 7
Values, Motivation, and Purpose
Students identify and reflect on their own values and how they may affect their daily functioning.
Session 8
Coping With Rough Weather
Students explore techniques of coping with life stress and look at how they personally cope.
Session 9
Your Fleet – The Interpersonal Network
Students learn how to build and maintain their interpersonal network and manage conflict using effective communication techniques.
Session 10
My Resilience Plan
Reflect on growth throughout the program and begin creating a resilience plan for students to use this semester and going forward.
Resources for transitions
Visit the Resource Hub to learn more about the topics and tools covered in the units as well as general resources about navigating life during transitions, especially after high school.
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