life coaching program
Life House
FOR SHARED LIVING ENVIRONMENTS
The Need:
A Place For Young Adults To Heal And Grow Emotionally And Relationally
A large number of Gen Z young adults find themselves at the starting line of what ought to be their independent adult lives with several issues:
Due to the unfiltered introduction of social media in their formative years, many are lacking emotional maturity. Some find themselves addicted to gaming, porn, or other screen-related coping mechanisms - all of which stunt relational maturity. Their identities are under-informed due to a lack of joyful multigenerational input that human brains require in order to know our true value apart from performance.
And with all that, the housing market is no place for a newly independent young adult. Minimum wage barely pays the bills, while at the same time, rent and home purchase prices are extremely inaccessible. All this compounds the challenges of maturity and mental health: many Gen Zers (who already spent their coming of age sheltering in place), despite wanting to move out of their parents' homes, simply can't. But until they do, adult life will continue to stall in Gen Z.
The Life House Solution
The best place to heal and grow a true identity is the home. Life Model teaches us that our brains were designed to learn and understand who we truly are in an environment where we don't have to perform. At school, church, or even in social environments, performance is likely to override the parts of our selves which aren't going to be well-received by others - including the parts that are immature or negative. We learn to compensate with behaviors, and the older we get, the better able we become at hiding, masking, and pretending...until we get home at night. Then all the ugly stuff rises, and we pull out our coping strategies.
A Life House is a real home where friends pull together their resources to share rent under a real landlord, pay the bills together, and live their lives at school or work. The Life House Program is a thin additional level that infuses the environment with Life Model-based coaching and training which addresses emotional or relational gaps by teaching the relational brain skills that Gen Z is likely to have missed in their childhood, due to the world they grew up in.
Phase 1: Start With Men
Both Gen Z men and women are part of our long-range vision for Life House. But the Gen Z story has subtle differences in its impact on Gen Z boys/men and girls/women. In terms of our Life House solutions for relational and emotional growth, we have experienced the most urgent need among the men. In our first Phase we are focused on developing a Life Model Based Program that offers a chance for Gen Z men to launch responsibly while still gaining support in relational/emotional skills.
The need is real, but not immediately obvious. Our society sets the bar very low for men when it comes to relationships and emotional maturity. Our Program is not just a way to get men to work or stay off the streets. We want more for them; we expect more from them. We believe a "working man" is just that - a man whose heart is alive and in working condition for the joy and safety of his whole community.
Here's How Life House Works:
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A group of young adults find a willing landlord who will rent them a house together. They move in and set the place up together.
A trained Life House Coach helps the residents create a contract together. This Coach is assigned to the home for oversight and accountability.
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Residents live together and pay the bills together. They slowly deepen their connections, and build joy together.
Our curriculum provides input from Life Model principles that help people understand their own brains and how real-life communities flourish.
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Living together allows people to be themselves - even on bad days. The old coping strategies and hiding start to return...but this time...
When conflict arises, the Life House Coach helps work through it in a healthy, honest way that results in greater maturity and joy for everyone
A Life House is NOT:
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an addiction recovery home
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a discipleship school
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emergency housing
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therapy or in-patient treatment
FAQs
What does the Life House program cost?
Life House Program per resident costs $155/month. This includes weekly life coaching services, house meetings with a Program Director, all Program curriculum, and community building support. In addition to the program fee, each resident should be able to pay their share of the monthly rent and utilities, which varies from house to house. Different houses divide the costs differently. We will help you hammer out your contract during onboarding so the expectations are clear for everyone, and appropriate to the circumstances of your lease agreement.
What are the desired success outcomes of a Life House?
Each household will have different overal goals, but the Life House Program specifically targets helping young adults ages 20-30 achieve adult maturity skills. According to the Life Model, Adult maturity means you are able to resolve conflict and return to enjoying each other, without either party resorting to codependency or pseudomaturity. So, a successful Life House is one where the people who live there are receiving and giving in equal and fair ways, creating a safe and peaceful environment for people to heal and grow.
How long does the Program last?
Our Program Content takes one full year (12 months) to complete, however, it is not required that residents complete all the units. Since 3 months is our recommended minimum-stay time, the units are structured in four 3-month topics. However, the content is very easy to jump right into the middle of, so your residents have freedom to come and go in the season that works out for them. A year is an ideal length of time to retrain your brain to relate and react in different ways. If you decide to stay longer than a year because it's working for you, that's fine, too! It all depends on your Life House.
Who signs the lease with the landlord?
It all depends on your situation, especially on the landlord's preference. We can suggest various options, all of which are real-life ways of structuring your home. Options include: 1. One resident signs the lease and takes responsibility for collecting the rent from everyone else 2. An outside party (usually a parent or sponsor) signs the lease and collects rent 3. The residents each pay the landlord separately with their portion of the rent
Sound Intriguing? It is!
Whether you're a 20-30 year old looking for a positive living environment, a concerned parent or community helper who wants to learn more ways of supporting Gen Z maturity, or a landlord interested in partnering with our Program to impact and empower Gen Z, we'd love to answer your questions!
We also need occasional sponsors to assist young men and women with the costs of the Program. Although we do require our residents to be in a position to cover rent and living costs, sometimes there are circumstances in which a sponsor can make all the difference. We'd love to hear from you if you're willing to contribute to the Life House Program coaching, curriculum, oversight, and community connections.