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Our core premise is that we are all resilient. It is in each of us from day one. Sometimes we lose touch with our resilience, but it never goes away.
It has been empirically proven that people can engage in attitudes and activities to exercise and strengthen their resilience. Our programs are heavily informed by psychological research and by our founders’ life experiences as people who have overcome tremendous challenges.
Many of the empirically proven lessons and exercises that we guide students and their families through direct support the development of skills and mindsets that are critical to success in the college application process. These same learnings can be applied through college and adult life. In class, students will engage in fun learning activities that encourage resilience in a safe space. Students are encouraged to form new bonds with fellow participants, building their support network. Students learn how to express themselves in spoken word (speech making) and written word while exploring their lives and the successes and failures they have already had.
We are big believers in adults demonstrating their resilience by giving talks that are frank and real, thus we have exciting guest speakers and videos of people who explain how they maintained optimism and rose above hardship to accomplish their life goals.In addition to our two founders, the Bottom of the Box, LLC resilience workshops and other programs are supported and vetted by a select group of experienced educators, psychologists, and researchers. Our goal is to help your student to find and exercise their resilience in ways that will contribute to lifelong grit and optimism. We strongly believe in each student’s ability to rise to the meet life challenges and ultimately thrive and contribute to society. And we are here to help you ensure your child launches a successful and fulfilling life.
All our staff have undergone background checks. Michael is an approved and active member of the girl scouts and Julia is an accredited and fully vested teacher with the Palo Alto Unified School District.
Michael Montegut holds a doctorate in Psychology and has received numerous grants and awards, including a prestigious NRC postdoctoral fellowship. He is a published researcher and has worked in experimental, personality, and positive Psychology. He worked at NASA for many years and then in Silicon Valley firms, some his own. Michael is an accomplished and sought after public speaker with a TEDx talk directed at high schoolers. He has overcome illnesses, failures, and tragedy to accomplish his goals and he readily shares with students his experiences and approach to managing the vicissitudes of life.
Julia Lee is a teacher with the Palo Alto Unified School District. She is an expert in communication and digital arts. She is a Common Sense Educator, Google Educator, JEANC Member. Julia is a successful entrepreneur with a thriving talent management business. Julia has also overcome her share of life challenges and she brings this experience to bear in her teaching and coaching of students and parents.
