This book offers educators and youth advocates a comprehensive set of discussions and activities to help develop critical thinking, compassion, self-awareness, and resilience in adolescents. It is designed to complement the unique social and developmental attributes of students this age. The interactions that adults have with tweens and teens can sometimes feel like open warfare. The SELF Project provides a robust curricular scaffold that can be used to win over the hearts and minds of these children we teach, care for, and love. Mindfulness, compassion, positive mindset, self-worth, and ways to address stress, anxiety and fear will become part of your expanding toolkit as you seek to connect with young people before you seek to correct. Kari offers her journey of motherhood and her expertise as a context for deploying these smart strategies with the ultimate goal of developing kind, resilient and good human beings.