MMG Learning · Adolescent · Occupations
Adolescent Complete Program (Twelve Seminars)
Both adolescent bundles together — Occupations (6) and Self-Construction (6). The full year of seminar work across outer and inner construction, designed to run as one coherent program.
For
Schools running adolescent programs with required adult capacity
Delivery
Instant download after purchase
What’s Included
2 items in this bundle.
Adolescent · Land and Food
PDF · six-week seminar
Adolescent · Shelter and the Built World
PDF · six-week seminar
Adolescent · Care and Community
PDF · six-week seminar
Adolescent · Commerce and Exchange
PDF · six-week seminar
Adolescent · Communication and Media
PDF · six-week seminar
Adolescent · Science and Repair
PDF · six-week seminar
Identity and Self
PDF · six-week seminar
Relationships and Consent
PDF · six-week seminar
Mental Health and Emotional Sovereignty
PDF · six-week seminar · requires school readiness
Sexuality, Bodies, and Becoming
PDF · six-week seminar · requires school readiness
Conflict, Repair, and Community Membership
PDF · six-week seminar
Purpose, Contribution, and Sovereignty
PDF · six-week seminar
Inside Each Seminar
What an adolescent actually does for six weeks.
Every Adolescent seminar follows the same six-week shape: real work at a partner site three afternoons a week, two seminar mornings on the underlying ideas, and structured reflection. The structure is true to Erdkinder, modernized for contemporary justice work. The material is rigorous; the adult capacity required to run it is real.
Occupations · Six Seminars
01 · Land and Food
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week at a working farm, urban garden, food bank, or community kitchen. Students participate in actual production, harvest, distribution, or food preparation alongside adults doing the work.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the science of food systems (soil, ecology, nutrition), one on the politics of food (sovereignty, access, labor, justice). Reading from contemporary food-systems thinkers.
Six-week deliverable
A working contribution to the partner site (a planted bed, a finished meal cycle, a documented process), plus a written reflection connecting the work to the larger system.
02 · Shelter and the Built World
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week with a builder, architect, urbanist, housing organization, or community land trust. Students engage with actual construction, design review, or housing advocacy.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the principles of design, materials, and structural reasoning; one on housing as a justice question — zoning, displacement, ownership, who gets to live where.
Six-week deliverable
A documented contribution to a built or designed object, plus a written analysis of the housing or design context students were working inside.
03 · Care and Community
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week with caregivers, elder care, early childhood programs, or community health. Students participate in real care work alongside professionals.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the ethics and practice of care (reciprocity, dignity, intimacy of care work); one on care as a labor question (paid vs unpaid, gendered, racialized economy of care).
Six-week deliverable
Documented care relationships built across the six weeks, plus a written reflection on what care reveals about the political economy.
04 · Commerce and Exchange
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week at a small business, cooperative, mutual aid network, or trading floor. Students engage with real commerce — buying, selling, accounting, customer relationships.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the mechanics of commerce (margin, pricing, accounting, supply); one on the ethics and history of exchange — capitalism, alternatives, what fair exchange means in practice.
Six-week deliverable
A documented commerce engagement (a sale completed, a budget reconciled, a transaction analyzed), plus a written reflection on what they learned about exchange.
05 · Communication and Media
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week with a journalist, podcast producer, community radio station, school communications office, or independent media outlet. Students contribute to real publishing.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the craft of communication (clarity, voice, narrative, audience); one on media as power — who gets covered, who gets to cover, who owns the platform.
Six-week deliverable
Published or broadcast work the student contributed to, plus a written analysis of the media environment they were operating in.
06 · Science and Repair
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Three afternoons a week in a repair shop, maker space, lab, environmental remediation site, or restoration project. Students engage in actual scientific practice or skilled repair work.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on scientific reasoning and the practice of repair as material engagement; one on what science is for — extraction, restoration, repair as a politics.
Six-week deliverable
A documented repair, restoration, or scientific contribution, plus a written reflection on the ethic of fixing what is broken.
Self-Construction · Six Seminars
01 · Identity and Self
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Self-directed inquiry: family history, naming, identity formation, the self-narrative the adolescent has inherited and the one they are starting to author. Three afternoons a week of structured reflection, conversation, and primary-source research.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the developmental psychology of adolescent identity formation; one on identity as a social and political fact — race, class, gender, the categories one is given and the ones one chooses.
Six-week deliverable
A documented identity work product (family map, identity essay, oral-history project) plus a structured reflection on what shifted across the six weeks.
02 · Relationships and Consent
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Practiced relational work — consent conversations, friendship-building, repair after rupture, listening practice. Three afternoons a week of structured relational practice in pairs and small groups, facilitated by an adult guide.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the foundations of consent (as practice, not just policy); one on the architecture of healthy relationship — interdependence, boundary, attachment, repair.
Six-week deliverable
Documented relational work (consent practice logs, repair conversation summaries, feedback exchanges) plus a written reflection on what students now know about being in relationship.
03 · Mental Health and Emotional Sovereignty
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Self-directed mental health literacy: tracking emotional patterns, building regulation practices, learning when to ask for help and how. Three afternoons a week of structured practice with an adult guide and a counselor on call.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the science of emotion, regulation, and mental health literacy; one on the politics and history of mental health — diagnosis, access, who gets called sick, who gets called bad.
Six-week deliverable
A documented personal regulation practice plus a written reflection on what emotional sovereignty looks like for this specific adolescent. School readiness required: counselor available, referral pathway, family communication, opt-out.
04 · Sexuality, Bodies, and Becoming
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Comprehensive, age-appropriate sexuality education: anatomy, pleasure, consent, gender, sexuality, relationships across difference. Three afternoons a week of structured curriculum facilitated by trained adults.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the science and history of sexuality education; one on bodies as political — autonomy, healthcare, the policing of bodies across history.
Six-week deliverable
A documented body and sexuality literacy plus a written reflection on what the adolescent now knows about their own body and bodies in general. School readiness required: counselor available, referral pathway, family communication, opt-out.
05 · Conflict, Repair, and Community Membership
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Practiced conflict and repair work: actual conflicts surfaced, mediated, repaired. Restorative practice circles. Three afternoons a week of facilitated conflict work in real community.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on the developmental and relational science of conflict; one on restorative justice as a practice and a politics — the alternative to punishment.
Six-week deliverable
Documented conflict work (a repair completed, a circle held, a community agreement renegotiated) plus a written reflection on what the adolescent now knows about staying in community when things are hard.
06 · Purpose, Contribution, and Sovereignty
Real work · 3 afternoons / week
Vocational and purpose discernment: what does this adolescent want to do with their life and why. Three afternoons a week of structured exploration — interviews with adults doing meaningful work, primary-source reading on vocation, drafting a personal mission.
Seminar mornings · 2 / week
Two mornings: one on vocation across traditions and histories; one on contribution and sovereignty — the difference between achievement and purpose, between career and calling.
Six-week deliverable
A documented personal mission or contribution statement plus a written plan for what this adolescent wants to build, learn, or contribute next.
School readiness required
The Mental Health and Sexuality seminars require school readiness — a counselor or therapist available, a clear referral pathway, family communication, and an opt-out option. The Occupations bundle requires adult capacity for occupation-based adolescent work.
Ready when you are.
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