• The following factors make PATHS workshops appropriate for people who wish to improve their lives through the social-emotional power of community that comes with a consistent group:

• All people aspire to a life of fulfillment, challenge, and interest in what they do.

• All people have some habits and mindsets that are not helping them, and most people can benefit from learning the practice of reprogramming habits and mindsets.

• All people need a support network to feel seen and accepted.

• All people need a challenge network to help them learn and grow.

• All people need community.

Any organization that works closely with people of high school age or older can partner with us. Any type of organization is appropriate, as long as the organization is committed to the work we are doing, has a high level of contact with the proposed workshop participants, and wishes to collaborate with us to develop a positive working group.

Two-thirds of the Ongoing Workshop time is designed to give space for participants to use the group format to process challenges they are facing and to share their interests and passions. This means that we cannot be sure what students will bring to the table. We can say that, within the bounds of being respectful of everyone, a very wide range of topics are considered acceptable in PATHS workshops. The first third of the workshop is devoted to exposing participants to concepts that PATHS believes are powerful mental road maps and mindsets. These concepts are specially tailored to achieve the PATHS mission of living joyful and successful lives. (NOTE: Success is determined by the participant’s values, not necessarily in terms of money or status.) For more detail about the PATHS Curriculum use this link.

PATHS needs support in the following ways:

1. Financial donations are very important to our ability to run our program. If you can donate, our Donations page has bank-level security for credit card donations, or send a check to the address on the donations page.

2. If you know anyone who you think would be drawn to our mission and is in a position to help us deliver on our mission in some way please let us know by emailing Rob Pike at rob@pathsus.org.

3. If you have an idea about:

• How you might like to support PATHS

• An organization PATHS should know about

please email Rob Pike at rob@pathsus.org.

Participants in PATHS workshops will be taking part in the Ongoing Workshop nearly all of the time. This workshop format is the basis for everything that PATHS does with participants to work towards a joyful and successful life. Once a group of PATHS participants has established high levels of trust among themselves they may be ready for an especially challenging and exciting experience like a Hot Topic Workshop. This workshop chooses a topic that is designed to be highly controversial within the group of participants and uses the PATHS hot topic format to discuss this topic openly and respectfully. The goal of this exercise is to develop participants’ ability to listen to opposing views with respect and open-mindedness as well as to articulate their views calmly and clearly in situations when passions can run high.