Navigate What’s Next After High School
My Compass helps prepare students to navigate life after high school no matter what path they take. This program provides opportunities to optimize strengths, improve relationships, and handle challenges through practical skill-building activities and exercises.
Prepare for the High School Transition
My Compass uses a sailboat as a metaphor for navigating life after high school. Students will explore their strengths, thoughts, emotions, and values to help them cope with stressful situations. The program is taught in students’ classrooms and includes activities for students to complete between sessions to practice in real-life situations.
Learn moreSessions
Each My Compass session covers new information and builds on previous lessons. Sessions 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 how to regulate 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 impact their transition out of high school.
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 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 for their transition out of high school.
Resources for the Transition
Visit the Resource Hub to learn more about the topics and tools covered in the sessions. It also contains general resources about navigating life after high school.
Visit the Resource Hub