Mariacristina Saraceno

September 2023

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The Teen Treasure Map

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What do your teens need to master before they become adults? Most of them think that their "job" is to study and get good grades at school. Actually, the tasks during the teen years are very different and if you have a clear map, their transition to adulthood is going to be much smoother and more successful.

The Teen Manifesto

When I ask students what is their main task during their teen and young adult years, the invariable answer is: "to study" or "to get good grades". That's completely missing the point. You can find the REAL tasks of the teen and young adult years in the Teen Manifesto, which you can download here.

Becoming financially independent is big part of transitioning to adulthood. Yet this is not taught at school. Find here your very first steps every teen needs to think about.

Financial Independence Treasure Map


AI is like magic. Here you will find curated list of the more useful AI tools to create, build, find an internship or a job, for teens, young adults and their parents.

The AI Treasure Map


The 5 Whys of Teen Volunteering, 13 brief case studies, and 20 ideas about where to volunteer. Volunteering has never been so urgent, easy and fun.

The Volunteering Treasure Map


Are you a parent, family member, teacher, counsellor or psychologist? Are you curious about what I cover in the courses with teens? Is this course right for your child? Will it have a positive impact on them? I will tell you exactly what we do. The change in attitude of the teen is usually astounding. Whereas before the courses they are mostly reactive to what they are told to do by school, sport and music, after the courses they become enquirers, seekers, with a focus on research, trial, error and iteration, while they invent themselves.

What's the content? What's the transformation my teen will go through?

What are you worried about for your teen? That they are not going to be happy, find their tribe, develop to their full potential, earn enough money to be independent? That they lack drive or social skills? That they take too many risks? That they carry guilt and shame? That they could be developing anxiety, depression or more? Here are 10 Essential Frameworks for your family to manage the transition to adulthood successfully. I distilled some of lessons I learnt while mentoring students and parents one-to-one. Your teens will be grateful.

10 Common Mistakes Parents Of Teens  Make And Frameworks To Avoid Them (They Are Not What You Think!)


Broad professional audience — content relevant across many roles and functions.

A Socratic Process For Highly Capable Students To Achieve Self Invention, Find Their Tribe, Determine Goals for Meaningful Impact


Mariacristina Saraceno, Coaching Ambitious Learners Worldwide.  
MSc in Applied Neuroscience, MA in Diplomatic Studies.


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Ambitious Students' Bootcamp

Let's fast track your growth with practical frameworks that school doesn't offer. Ditch fear of failure, start dreaming big, explore the world and find the niche that is unique to you. This is your ticket to being a driven and creative problem-solver, an idea hunter and producer, a confident leader. You don't want to wait until after Uni or when you are unhappy in your first job to ask yourself who you are and who you want to be. Do it now and you will be years in front. What are your values? Strengths? Types of intelligence? Role models? Aspirations? Fears? What's the tribe that you crave? What problems do you want to solve? How do you get to where you want to be? What frameworks can help you the most? Your parents and I advanced as if blindfolded and acquired lessons along the way. Here you can find the lessons you need already packaged and ready to go. This course is very time sensitive. It is urgent for ambitious students aged 14-25. It will save you anger, frustration, and thousands of dollars. As an ambitious student, you want to find out how and in which field you are going to change the world, make money and find self-worth. School does not help you figure out what success looks like for you. This is what we will discover together. Then we will look at mindsets, habits and strategies to get you there. The course is fast, but very intense. I need your commitment. Don't do it for your parents, Don't do it for your teachers. This is for you. Are you ready?

Deliberately build self-identity and vision


Let's make it easy and fun!


Ideally you will have a dedicated Notebook and pen, a phone and a computer or tablet. If you have 2 devices, it will be easier for you to do some research, or to fill in some task when prompted.

What to Bring


Recordings will be available, but the live sessions are where the magic happens


Driven students who want to be ahead of the pack, and save years, money, and frustration.

Highly capable learners with much to offer to the world, but unsure what future to pursue or how to pursue it.

Students who need to move from being told what to do to thinking with their own head, being driven, having an impact.

Who is this course for?


What you’ll get out of this course

We will start actively using the top frameworks for happiness and life satisfaction. We will open the fan of experiences and hunt down environments that will develop character and skills. We will apply creativity in problem solving.

We will be clear on the rules of the game.


We will use frameworks and prompts to reflect on experience and attitudes. We will investigate character traits, values, leadership, creativity, activity, service, role models, cognitive biases, limiting beliefs and more. This work can then serve as the basis for applications.

We will build self-identity profiles: character strengths, skills and key experiences 


We will build our T: what topics to we want to explore superficially? Which ones do we want to explore in depth? Who should we follow as role models? What problems do we want to solve? Can we already define a mission?

We will research problems, technologies, and role models.


Everyone in the cohort is ambitious, but for what? Everyone's definition of success will be completely different and just as valid.Keeping in mind our values, experiences and aspirations, we are going to draft individual definitions of success.

We are going to work on our individual definition of success


From emotional awareness and emotional control, to areas of comfort and areas of control, from love of experimental failure to seeing problems as opportunities, we are going to spotlight top mindsets, habits and strategies to get to our definition of success.

Learn directly from Mariacristina Saraceno

Mariacristina Saraceno

Courses

Ambitious Students' Bootcamp

Resources

The Volunteering Treasure Map

10 Common Mistakes Parents Of Teens Make And Frameworks To Avoid Them (They Are Not What You Think!

The Teen Manifesto

Financial Independence Treasure Map