Seven Realms Solutions

One in five persons in the United States (U.S.) is an adolescent or young adult between the ages from 10 to 24 years(1). 42% of teens experience persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), over 55% have a chronic pain conditions (American Academy of Family Physicians), and 22% of teens have seriously considered attempting suicide (American Psychological Association). Healthy habits, wellness, and altruistic values develop during the adolescent years and are critically important to advancing health, wellness, and altruism to solve problems within a community and global society. A recent EdWeek survey indicated that 66% of high school principals are actively searching for effective solutions to battle the escalating levels of student anxiety, depression, addiction, mental and physical health issues.

Thus, the overall goal of this project is to prevent life and societal problems by implementing and evaluating a multi-level transformative academic training program for adolescent and young adult students in high schools entitled; UP 101: Unlimited Potential of of Adolescents and Young Adults with Real Life Training. This program provides both on-line and in-person training with academic and life coaching to support students in becoming healthy, successful, and altruistic adults who will help society shift to the Age of Shared Humanity and set the stage to solve the world's largest problems in generations to come. The program will expand student and family learning about their own health, well-being, equity, altruism and success through an experiential course that supports whole person understanding, life coaching skills, and the power of experiential altruistic activities. This program provides 3 levels of training and support for students, their parents, and teachers that include:

1. An on-line evidence-based educational program in whole person health and well-being that promotes understanding and positive energy in the seven realms of a person's life including the mind, body, spirit, emotions, lifestyle, social life, and environment.
2. Receive group and individual training and support in life coaching for students to become healthy, successful, and altruistic adults
3. Participate and coach younger students in altruistic community-based volunteer projects to experience the power of life coaching to help others.

The overall goal of this course is to support and reinforce the existing curriculum on health and wellness concepts to help students and their parents and educators understand how the balance and relationship of risk factors and protective factors can have a significant impact on health, happiness, prosperity, relationships, and success in life. Ultimately, this course can lay the framework for helping each and every student achieve a good life that contributes to the improvement of society and the world. The major objectives of the course include:

1. Learn how a human systems approach that includes understanding the risk factors and protective factors in the seven realms of our lives -- Body, Lifestyle, Emotions, Society, Spirit, Mind, and Environment-- can help us integrate our whole lives and achieve improved academic performance, health, wellness, productivity, relationships, and happiness in life.
2. Learn how to recognize and reduce risk factors, such as low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, drug use, poor sleep and diet, health issues, poor pacing, lack of direction, risky sexual behaviors, environmental risk, truancy, and more that can lead to poor academic performance, life problems and ultimately a poor transition to adulthood.
3. Learn how to implement protective factors, such as self-esteem, developing purpose, creativity, meditation, healthy habits, sleeping well, helping others, organization, honesty, resilience, and coping strategies that can lead to a successful transition to adulthood.
4. Help parents and educators learn to be effective role models and life coaches for students, to help them implement personal strategies to prevent or solve life's common problems.
5. Help students understand the major societal problems of obesity, corruption, terrorism, drought, poverty, and how these can affect us personally, and why individual actions can impact the world around us in either negative or positive ways.