Proposal

Proposal Step 1 **The Good Life, The Meaningful Life, and the Teenager**: Creating a workshop for high-school students which helps them identify and foster personal strengths in order to achieve flow and meaning in their lives.

Step 2 From my own observation, the life of the average high school student is not catered toward his or her individual strengths. Most of the kids I know spend much of their day doing schoolwork and activities that their parents want them to do, they are doing to impress colleges, or for any other reason besides the fact that they choose to do it because they enjoy it and it means something to them. My project is so cool because it will help high-school students discover their individual strengths and use them to add renewed purpose to their lives.

Step 3 Paper: Under the umbrella of positive psychology, what are flow and meaning, and how can they improve the life of the average high-school student?

Project: Creating a workshop for high-school students which helps them identify and foster personal strengths in order to achieve flow and meaning in their lives.

My paper and project are certainly connected and dependent. The information that I gather about flow and meaning, and how they can improve the average high school students life, will give me a strong basis on which to create my workshop. My project will more or less be the embodiment of my paper.

Step 4 How will you implement the project? I am hoping that some of my teachers will let me do the workshop I create with their classes!

Outside of school who will you work with? I can definitely work with my psychology teacher, Mr. Greifinger. Also, one of my mom's friends works in education, and will be able to help me create a successful workshop. I am also hoping that I will be able to work with one of my dad's colleagues who is an adolescent psychologist. All of these people should be very helpful!

What is the purpose of your research? The purpose of my research is analysis and argument. I will research and argue why high-schoolers specifically would greatly benefit from identifying and fostering personal strengths in order to ultimately achieve flow and meaning in their lives.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">What is the scope of your project/what are some challenges? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Although the scope of my project is large, I believe I will be able to accomplish my project and 18 weeks. The biggest challenge for me will most likely be creating a workshop, as I have never created or taught any kind of formal class before!

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">How will you know your success? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">I will ask the kids who participate in the workshop to fill out an anonymous evaluation of the class, and what they gained. This should help me gauge my success.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">What is a tangible product of your work? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">In addition to the research paper, the product will be the workshop that I create. This will include my outline and notes for the workshop, some form of presentation, and handouts for the participants.