“Promoting social emotional learning that empowers today’s children to overcome tomorrow’s obstacles.” To empower teachers and students to overcome societal difficulties, generational poverty, and the effects of childhood trauma. To train and equip public/charter schools with tools that empower students to reach their personal best over the course of the child’s lifetime and on a daily basis. To develop a national argument for mandated social emotional learning-with Forming Lives as the leader and as part of a regular curriculum. VISION Building resilient students who understand how to function (as adults) in a global economy; thus, reducing societal poverty, addiction, disease, and crime. To enable children to realize their potential.