Haven Apprenticeship for Teens:
Independent & Interdependent Studies

Intensive Support for Self-directed Learning - Strategies and Tools
with learning coach Claudia L'Amoreaux
at The Haven Learning Center in West Berkeley

Learning how to learn (meta-learning) is the key to becoming a self-directed learner. It may even be the most essential skill for academic success and personal fulfillment. This intensive gives teens an opportunity to understand and practice the basics of meta-learning.

Weekly one-on-one coaching sessions help teens:

• identify and transform limiting learning myths
• tame the inner critic
• clarify purposes and goals - both academic and personal
• create flexible and effective strategies to get where they want to go
• organize time, attention and resources to achieve goals
• evaluate the quality of their achieved outcomes
• use feedback to refine and modify goals and strategies
• create successful apprenticeships
• design authentic paths to higher education & career

Frequent group learning adventures offer teens:

• social dimension to independent learning
• rites of passage groups
• performance art support
• social activism workshops
• social entrepreneur workshops
• new science and whole systems studies
• group Learning Conversations with leaders in sustainable business

When

• Ongoing

Weekly sessions, once a week for one hour.

These weekly sessions help teens develop understanding and skills they can use to take charge of their learning and have a successful academic year. Learning how to learn coaching offers a powerful support structure for teens committed to improving how they learn and becoming self-directed learners.

Cost

• Cost - Inquire about payment plans

Includes half-hour, in-person consultation with parent/s at beginning and half-hour phone consultation monthly.

Registration

Call or email for an application and to schedule an interview. Limited to 12 teens. A few spaces are currently available.

Contact Claudia L'Amoreaux at the Haven Learning Center, 510.769.8167, or email CL@learningconversations.com.

The Haven Learning Center is dedicated to helping all ages of people enjoy ecstatic and expansive learning. We practice an integrative (mind body spirit), well-being and resiliency approach to learning and learning differences based on Humberto Maturana's work in the biology of love, and Claudia's thirty years in transformational learning.