Life skill programs
to master your life
experiences and challenges
Life skill programs
to master your life
experiences and challenges
What we do
We equip young people with life skills so that they can become their own coach, navigate their important decisions, experiences, and challenges with resilience and empowerment, and are able to create life by their own design.
How we do it - our programs
Our single workshop or multi-session programs train you in key life topics that all people encounter daily in all areas of life such as Decision-making, Change, Managing outside influences, Mindset, Intuition, Emotional regulation and Real-world challenges.
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Develop practical life-skills you can immediately apply to all your life experiences, become your own coach and create life by your own design. -
Help your students become their own coach, create their own wellbeing and perform better. -
Help your employees become their own coach, create their own wellbeing and perform better in the workplace.
Why we do it
Educational systems and society aim to prepare young people for the real-world, but focus too much on knowledge-building and not enough on skill development.
As a result, young people lack the life-skills to navigate their important life experiences, changes and challenges with resilience.
This leads to mental health and wellbeing issues like fear of failure, anxiety, and burn-out, and makes it harder to perform and enjoy life.
Through life skills, young people can become their own coach, navigate their lives with empowerment, and are able to create life by their own design.
As a result, young people lack the life-skills to navigate their important life experiences, changes and challenges with resilience.
This leads to mental health and wellbeing issues like fear of failure, anxiety, and burn-out, and makes it harder to perform and enjoy life.
Through life skills, young people can become their own coach, navigate their lives with empowerment, and are able to create life by their own design.
The GYL Approach
- 1. Real world contentAll content is developed by young people for young people, and entirely based on real-world, practical experiences from young people from different cultures, backgrounds, and professional fields from all around the world.
- 2. Non-judgmental environmentOpen, non-judgmental, authentic group settings in which young people are accepted for who they are and seen as the experts of their experiences.
- 3. Connection to selfThe stripping away of external noise, pressure, and expectations so that young people can connect to what they feel, think, need, and desire.
- 4. Connection to othersConnect with people from around the world from different cultures, backgrounds, and professional fields with unique life stories and experiences through peer-to-peer dialogues and exchanges.
- 5. Awareness & understandingGYL theoretical frameworks are shared which change each topic from a hard to understand “black box” into something young people can understand and take the lead in. The frameworks allow them to ‘plug-in’ their unique context and gain insights into their own behavior.
- 6. Practical tools and approachesYoung people find what works for them and develop personalized and practical tools and approaches so they can navigate their unique life challenges and decisions, and create life by their own design.
What we've done so far
4,800 participants
From more than 75 countries
At more than 45 schools, universities, companies
About our programs & network
- "GYL is such an eye opener. Its workshops have shed light on my path and blessed me with a safe space where I can discuss my professional and intellectual evolution. I have been enriched by the tactful honest and hopeful words of the many international, young people involved."
- "I have taken around 6 talent development courses and this was better than any of them. It's difficult for me to open up sometimes and be vulnerable, but you created the safest space to do so, and I felt SO comfortable. Also, sharing some of their experiences was amazing to hear and really set the tone for the rest of the session. I appreciated the transparency and rawness of it."
- It was so inspiring to take part in one of the first workshops in Amsterdam. The thought-provoking and empowering framework for sharing and reflecting on how we make path-defining choices is a beautiful way to inspire positivity and most importantly, to connect with awesome people with diverse experiences.
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