Challenges and Choices Teen Mussar Program Bundle
Youth Licensed Programs for Community Organizations
Challenges and Choices Teen Mussar Program Bundle
An Adolescent (Grades 9-12) Program
Challenges and Choices offers practical ways for teens to become their “best selves” through the spiritual practice of Mussar.
With the goal of creating a deeper connection to Judaism, Challenges and Choices helps teens find meaning and purpose by navigating life choices in healthy ways that reflect Jewish values. Using practical Jewish wisdom, facilitated discussions, and a focus on social, emotional, and spiritual learning, the program also addresses the mental health stressors brought on by life’s challenges facing today’s teens.
The program was developed, piloted, and evaluated through a generous grant from The Templeton Foundation and several private donors. Thanks to their generosity, we are able to offer the program at a low price-point.
The Mussar Institute’s teen program, Challenges and Choices: A Jewish Teen’s Guide to a Balanced Life, is an interactive, experiential, and engaging 14-unit middot-centered curriculum for students grades 9-12 that is available to Jewish organizations across the United States and beyond.
14 Units of Self-Discovery
Teens explore their own inner character traits, known as middot, in Hebrew.
Based on the Jewish Spiritual Tradition of Mussar
With 1,100 years of Mussar wisdom to draw from, teens learn about and try tested techniques to understand and balance their inner qualities. This inner awareness supports them as they manage the real-life stressful situations they encounter with friends, school, family dynamics, and social unrest.
Engaged Learning with Peers and Trained Facilitators
They learn in an engaging manner through role-play, movement, meditation, chanting, visual aids, TED talks, animation, games, and of course, meaningful conversation with their facilitators.
Equips Teens to Face Personal Challenges with Confidence
Each unit explores a different and unique middah or character trait and introduces the teens to holistic skills offered by the Mussar masters. They’ll experience centering activities, multiple ways to understand and process the middah, and practices to bring the middah to life, culminating in a personal practice to “seal in” the learning.
A Proven Program Piloted by The Mussar Institute and The Templeton Foundation
The facilitators are guided through each unit with an overview of Mussar, Mussar facilitation perspectives and techniques, best practices, suggested lesson outline templates, and a resource section for both new and seasoned Mussar facilitators.
Facilitators receive A Taste of Mussar self-paced course online (by request to info@mussarinstitute.org), Essentials facilitator program training module, and facilitator resources.
Once you register, you will have immediate access to all program materials. You can download materials to distribute, as well as share audio/visual content online.
License: $270, program access never expires
