Abundant Life Preparatory Understanding Human Behavior

At Abundant Life Preparatory program, through a thorough grounding in behavioral temperaments, our own and others, we provide our troubled teens with a base of understanding and awareness that will help our troubled boys and troubled girls to have more effective relationships.  We explore the temperaments of each student and their families and determine how these various temperaments served them well and how some of the behavioral temperaments did not serve at all.  We will explore basic temperaments and also our "environmental" temperaments and find ways to bring both temperaments into balance to better serve our goals and ambitions.

At Abundant Life Preparatory, we explore two powerful models that many of the nations' top businesses and universities utilize to develop emotionally intelligent leaders. Again, we study the concept of choice, and how we really do have choice in what we think, feel, and how we act.  We demystify the "victim" mentality that will always promote weakness, reaction, and a lack of accountability.

Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

At Abundant Life Preparatory, we explore two powerful models that many of the nations' top businesses and universities utilize to develop emotionally intelligent leaders. Again, we study the concept of choice, and how we really do have choice in what we think, feel, and how we act.  We demystify the "victim" mentality that will always promote weakness, reaction, and a lack of accountability.

Our troubled teens learn to apply the EQ Models of Know Yourself, Choose Yourself, and Give Yourself.  We teach the Abundant Life Preparatory troubled teens the concepts of how our brain functions and how that relates to our emotional development and better yet, how we can re-train ourselves to remain "in choice" and develop new neural pathways for our habitual reactions and actions.

Accountability – Being Accountable to One Another

At Abundant Life Preparatory, the troubled teens (troubled boys and troubled girls) explore the aspects of "Above the Line" and "Below the Line" behavior. Studies show that we all learn how to perform "below the line" behavior, meaning when we are led by principles (core pro-social values), and not by our emotions, we prosper. We develop the concept that accountability is something that we impose on ourselves and not the traditional concept of an externally imposed accountability. We learn what it means to “step-up” and serve others, and with that, we better serve ourselves.