Scholar Phase 10-Recording Set: Preparing to Mentor Scholar Phase Youth

Top Ten Scholar Phase Family Forum presentations

Save $18 when you order this set of 10 Family Forum presentations designed to teach, support and help you in mentoring your youth, as they transition into Scholar Phase. Learn from parents and mentors who are successfully mentored Scholar Phase. 

1. Dr. Jesse Meeks: Soft Boiled Teens vs. Hard Boiled Young Men and Young Women
2. Richard and Emily Clawson: Raising Up a Hero Generation
3. James Ure: Scholar Phase Mentor Meetings
4. Nels Jensen: The World of Online Education
5. Andrew Pudewa:  Nurturing Excellent Writers and Speakers: The Power of Linguistic Patterns
6. Dr. Jesse Meeks: Co-op Scholar Mentoring
7. Kathy Mellor: Crucible Experiences, Why Every Scholar Needs Them
8. Mary Biesinger: Mentors to Match our Message
9. Jon McKenzie: Developing and Encouraging the Young Entrepreneur
10. Kathy Mellor: Coaching, The Forgotten Environment

Dr. Jesse Meeks: Soft Boiled Teens vs. Hard Boiled Young Men and Young Women

Have you ever bitten into what you thought was going to be a hot hard boiled egg only to find it is cold and runny?  Yikes!  It was hardly worth eating.  You feel disappointed, discouraged and if you’re like me, still hungry! Now is the time to help our sons and daughters engage. Go ahead, throw them into the furnace of affliction. They deserve it; they are born to it. It would be sad to surmise that stress will kill teenagers. Perhaps it will, but not completely. They will rise like the Phoenix from the ashes. YM and YW rarely develop into great and impactful adults by accident. Fathers don’t need to delay greatness by diluting their youths minds with runny yokes – information and experience that is watered down, uncooked, and simmered in lukewarm water. Parents, the sum experience of your lives now affords you the opportunity – even gives you the right - to mentor your sons and daughters, not to become runny yokes, but firm hard boiled yokes of potential greatness. We will discuss why you are the biggest and often the only person in position to help your sons and daughters discover their genius. Why you are best suited  to give them the opportunity to express their talents and greatness. It is your destiny to make this happen. We will also discuss practical ideas you can implement now and how to avoid potential hazards and pitfalls along the way.  If you don't have youth in your home currently, someday you will.  Begin to prepare now for what is ahead.

Richard and Emily Clawson: Raising Up a Hero Generation

The Threat: Playstation. Cell phones. Television. Facebook. Friends. Radio. Movies – the demands for your youth’s attention are endless. With all of these distractions it seems our society is creating a generation of apathetic floaters.

The Solution: Ho, Knights! Greetings, Fair Maidens! In this workshop you will learn how we, as parents and mentors, can raise up a generation that is willing to make sacrifices, do the hard work of a Leadership education and become the Heroes of tomorrow. We will discover the stages of Knighthood and how they apply to raising a Hero Generation. We will discuss the unique roles of mothers and fathers in this journey and we will learn about the integral role of the Hero Story in this process. Be prepared to leave excited about the Heroes in your family, not only the youth at home but also the one that you see each day in the mirror! (Presentation emphasis is on boys.)

James Ure: Scholar Phase Mentor Meetings

Over the past three years I have done approximately 500 mentor meetings with youth ages 14-18. I have learned that weekly accountability meetings with scholar-phase students are essential. I've also learned that the best meetings are very simple. In this workshop, I have three shiny keys to share with you, as well as Williamsburg's signature time management tool, the Student Accountability Report. When you leave this workshop you will have the knowledge and tools you need for effective scholar-phase mentor meetings with your youth.

Nels Jensen: The World of Online Education

The Information Age is over. The Conceptual Age has begun. The knowledge and skills that American students learned last generation are still important, but no longer sufficient to prepare today's students to survive and thrive. New aptitudes are needed; new delivery methods are needed. Online education (formal and informal) is rising up to teach the new aptitudes through creative new delivery methods, and it is growing at an incredible pace. Parents, if you want your children to stay ahead of the curve, and students, if you want to expand your future options, you must become aware of the exciting opportunities available through online education.

Andrew Pudewa:  Nurturing Excellent Writers and Speakers: The Power of Linguistic Patterns

Many parents think that good readers will naturally become good writers.  Others think that writing talent is just that—a natural ability—some have it; others don't. Both are myths. History and modern research show very clearly how good writers have developed. What are the two most critical things you can do as a parent to develop a high level of aptitude, from a young age and into high school? With humor and insight, Andrew will share the two easy but unbelievably powerful things you can do to build language patterns and nurture competent communicators in your family.

Dr. Jesse Meeks: Co-op Scholar Mentoring

What do you do with your young men and young women who you have so carefully nurtured through more than a decade of education and realize now they are extremely smart? Argh! Do you have the time to mentor them? Do you have what it takes to help them in most of the important areas? Typically not! What a conundrum!!!  Leadership education is not about throwing in the towel when at last we are confronted with a seemingly unsolvable situation. Come to this lecture to see what the parents of six wonderful youth did in this very situation…smart kids, not enough time to mentor them with careers, work and younger children, and no exciting public, charter, or private schools to do what we thought would be best for them.  Learn how we came together and created a scholar phase opportunity that would fit everyone’s schedule and give Dads and/or Moms the ability to continue to mentor their geniuses as a team, with other likeminded adults, without disrupting their careers and other obligations. You’re going to love this!

Kathy Mellor: Crucible Experiences, Why Every Scholar Needs Them

Reading and discussing classics is indispensable for developing statesmen.  But crucible experiences are what prepare you to actually be one!  This interactive presentation will be between the 2010 Andau Character Prize winner and his mentor.  Join us to find out why simulations, high pressure public speaking experiences, and debating can give adults and scholars alike the opportunity to develop greatness!  Transforming from coal to diamonds requires heat and pressure—learn how to be the kind of mentor that can create meaningful crucible experiences for the scholars in your life.  And, maybe, you’ll walk away wanting a few for yourself!

Mary Biesinger: Mentors to Match our Message

Have you struggled with becoming the mentor that you feel you amazing youth need to have?  Have you gone back and forth between inspire, require, and sometimes even ignore? In this class, we will use the lives and messages of great individuals that have modeled inspirational mentoring to explore what it takes to be a truly inspiring mentor. We will discuss practical ways how to apply those key ingredients to help you become the mentor you have always wanted to become.

Jon McKenzie: Developing and Encouraging the Young Entrepreneur

Youth is an excellent time to be an entrepreneur - energy levels and willingness to try new things are high, while risks are limited.  Don’t miss the opportunity to develop and encourage your youth.  This workshop will discuss 5 lessons I have learned in developing and encouraging my children to be entrepreneurs.  Numerous examples of successful and non-successful experiences will be discussed and you will leave with a place to start.

Kathy Mellor: Coaching, The Forgotten Environment

Have you found yourself focusing on lectures, tutorials, and colloquia because that is what seems to fit the “academic environment”?  Most of us have adequate experience in these learning environments but hope that the coaching our children receive in music and sports will suffice.  Learn to use this precious environment!  Find out why it is the very best environment for giving our scholars vision for who they really are and for instilling in them a sense of their mission.  Kathy Mellor uses these environments extensively in both writing and public speaking and wants to inspire you to learn how to coach not only for specific skills but also for LIFE.