Is College for You?

Discover Your Purpose, Connect with Your Tribe, Achieve Your Dreams at Journey School.

We’re calling Gen Z’ers everywhere to join us in Guatemala for discovery, travel, earning college credits, and missions!

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Why Journey School?

Life is a journey and an adventure. Journey School is for students who understand that the best learning happens outside the classroom. We connect It incorporates a series of journeys to places you dream about to learn how to build your dreams.

At Journey School, we connect you to your identity in Christ, your community, and your life calling. We have found that curiosity-based learning is far more effective than lectures and memorizing facts for tests. When you join Journey School, you

An international school with campuses around the world.
Students are assigned a team of mentors to guide them through their process.
Students join a community (based on purpose and affinity).
Students have a mission.

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Journey School Information

Fall Semester 2025

Date and Time

September – December 2025
Location

Italy/Albania
Cost

$12K per year ($6K per semester)

Students and Process

1. We recruit highly motivated Christ-followers.
2. We guide students through a process to inventory their strengths and interests.
3. Coaches help students develop a Thrive Path.
4. Our mentors give them hard coaching and connect them to resources.
5. Students learn skills through a badge system to grow body, mind, and spirit.
6. We tap into students’ curiosity and motivation to equip them to grow at a pace appropriate to them.

All the Details

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Journey School is customized learning program that gives you space and time to figure things out.

We have 7 Promises you can take to the bank:

1. Graduate Debt-Free – through our student-school resourcing process.

No student debt

College has become unaffordable so debt is not an option at Journey School.

Our model focuses on:

Earning money through work & apprenticeships
Fundraising
Scholarships
Family savings

2. Deepen Your Walk with Christ – through our discipleship process.

Deepen Your Walk with Christ

We are Christ-followers who believe healthy, thriving community builds our faith. Our students and mentors enjoy abundant life together as they walk through discipleship and fellowship together.

While at Journey School, you’ll experience:

Rich Community
Adventure Weekends
Apprenticeship Network
Classes for academic credit
Ministry alongside local partners
Coaching

3. Experiential Learning – optimized learning process using experiential education

Experiential Learning on a Global Campus

Studies show we learn more through experience than lecture. Our learning model focuses on a multiplicity of experiences as you travel the world. We help you customize your learning path by connecting you with a mentor who helps you build a Thrive Path.

4. Associates or Bachelor’s Degrees that meet students’ educational and career goals.

Designing Your Life

Your Thrive Path begins as your coach helps you inventory your assets, interests, and dreams. You and your coach will then work to connect you to your dreams by developing a path composed of specific actions that you’ll take to move toward your dreams. Each week, you’ll look at it, evaluate the progress you’ve made and then edit your Thrive Path, establishing priorities for the week to come.

5. Missional Living – We connect students to a global kingdom network of opportunities.

Bachelor’s Degree

After attending the 4-month Program, you can go on to earn your Associates (2 years) or Bachelor’s Degree (3-4 years) doing what you love! Our academic partners work with us to incorporate our experiential education to give credit hours so that you can get a degree. Typically each year has a theme.

Year 1: A Customized Learning Path: Activate your Thrive Path
Year 2: The Thrive Path incorporates academic subjects you’ll need in life
Year 3: Work with mentors to connect academics with hands-on training
Year 4: Apprenticeship and real world opportunity

6. Community Focus – students live and study in a mentor-led community.

Community Focus

We are experts at creating community. We place students in cohorts where they often make lifelong friends. They do life together and laugh a lot while challenging and encouraging one another.

7. Practical Life Onramp – connecting to your dreams and your superpowers and then connecting you to a network of mentors/jobs that will develop you.

Practical Life Onramp

We equip students to dream with God about how he wants to change the world and then becoming the change the world needs. To do that, you’ll need skills and connections. We coach students in acquiring life skills. We connect them to a network of mentors who are committed to Christ’s Great Commission, working on life-changing projects in real time. The world is changing – at Journey School, we teach you how to change with it.

Your Personal Thrive Path

21 Essential Skills

The old model of school – rows of desks in classrooms – needs an upgrade. We believe that Jesus gave us the perfect model as he taught his disciples. Yes, he taught them concepts in a formal way, but then he modeled what it looked like. And then he activated his disciples through experience. When they returned, Jesus debriefed them with questions and answers. He didn’t make it easy. He trusted his disciples to first begin allowing the Holy Spirit to lead them, and then eventually, for them to lead others.

Life during Covid has made many young people anxious. Our coaches come alongside them, helping them to inventory their skills and understand where they may need remedial work through a Badge System. The staff at Journey School and AIM have surveyed the growth of thousands of participants to distill the 21 top skills that are essential for thriving.

Using the process outlined in the book Atomic Habits, Journey School coaches help students to not just learn about skills, but acquire them. We do it in a way that makes learning fun, building confidence and self-discipline.

Self Management

Self-awareness
Hunger to grow & curiosity
Personal responsibility and self-management
Self-discipline
Mentorship/discipleship (how to work with a coach/mentor)

Health Skills

Health of body, soul & spirit (head, heart & hands)
Biblical worldview
Communication skills
Spirit-filled living (Thrive Model)
Your identity and core values

People Skills

How to live in community
How to listen
Feedback
Partnerships & synergy
Intimacy

Life Skills

Basic chores & adulting
Good manners & being a good guest
Storytelling
Becoming a lifelong learner
Mission
Finding your purpose

During Journey School, you will have opportunities to road test your Thrive Path as you move toward an apprenticeship and graduation.

Letter to Future World Changers

I remember what it was like to leave my home and go off to college. My father wanted me to be a doctor like him. That seemed crazy to me. I didn’t know who I was or what I was good at, but I knew that it wasn’t going to be in the medical profession!

My parents expected me to go to college, so I went. The prospect of sitting in classrooms and taking notes seemed tedious, but I knew there was going to be a world full of possibilities beyond the campus.

When Thanksgiving break rolled around, my friend said, “Let’s drive to Acapulco!” Only problem? We were in Chicago! But we got in his VW and away we went, driving nonstop until we arrived at the beach two days later.

When, as a senior, I learned about the genocide in Cambodia, I found my way on a plane to a refugee camp. Within a week, I was helping refugees get back on their feet. I couldn’t see it, but I was becoming the change the world needed.

What I learned is that life doesn’t have to look like somebody else’s boring script. God has given us each passions and the ability to make a difference. In fact, he says in the Bible that true religion is not found in buildings, but “helping widows and orphans in their distress.”

I believe that you have the seeds of greatness in you, and I’ve committed my life to helping reveal it. I’ve learned so much, both in raising my own kids, and in digging into how Jesus helped his disciples to grow. I believe that his methods are God-breathed and still work. They aren’t outmoded, they’re just hard!

Journey School isn’t for everyone – we’re capping the first class at 10 students. But it is for those who believe that Jesus is worth following with total abandon. It’s for those who believe that life should be lived to the full and are prepared to press in and live it!

If you’re up for doing the work, I invite you to apply to Journey School. If we accept you, I will personally take an interest in you and, together with our team of coaches and mentors, will invest in you. I believe you’re worth it. The world needs changing and God is looking for those young people who are committed to becoming the change! He may well be calling you. I pray you hear his voice.

Yours for the journey,

Seth