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Jose P. Ortiz The Captain’s Manual program shows the student their own power already hidden within them.
Program Summary
The program demonstrates to a student of any age how to manage complex problems in life with grace and wisdom, from stressful pressures to processing emotions. The Captain’s Manual helps a student make the voyage from a passive passenger of life to an active decision-maker who takes life by the wheel.
Instead of teaching by lectures, memorization, and exams, the program utilizes practical methods and short-but-powerful lesson activities that leave lasting memories of good morals, life lessons, and wisdom. With the tools in the program, the student can have a better chance to successfully manage life’s challenges and claim the hidden rewards.
These rewards are a prize hidden inside of everyone. We call this the Holographic Prize (read more about it in the Program Overview). Few students learn that something is missing in their life, and fewer start looking for it in the world. While this is a necessary step in finding the prize, it won’t be found in the world. This program teaches the student how to look inside themselves, where the patient and diligent will find the prize waiting for them.
Info
A student of this program becomes the captain of their own ship. They choose where to sail instead of being blown aimlessly by the wind.
The course uses several techniques to help the student understand the material, but there are two main delivery methods: a captain theme and a role-playing game.
What the Captain’s Manual Doesn’t Do The program make the student a better person by itself. The student must be the one to engage with the lessons.
Also, program isn’t framed to be judgmental. The student is not a problem to be fixed. They are not wrong or bad, nor right or good. We all want to progress, so the program shares one way, out of the many ways on Earth, that a person could use to improve.
Lesson Delivery Methods
Using the imagination is fun, useful, and touching. This is a different take on education that doesn’t focus on memorization, test scores, or academic performance. Students already have school for that. The Captain’s Manual builds logic and critical thinking, fosters self-identity, and contextualizes life lessons. Although the techniques aren’t conventional, the value in learning these lessons is self evident and lifelong.
Method 1
The Power Within Yourself The basis for all lessons is the power within each of us to be creators and problem solvers. With love at the top, we use a cascading outline of personal powers, personality traits, and character qualities that describe a human living their best life. Each one is a lesson on its own, and while they are all connected, we focus on them one at a time.
Read more about the The Powers.
Method 2
Socrates: You Know Nothing We start the program from a humble perspective because we are leaving behind the old you and working on the new you. When we have nothing, it’s easy to start again, and this time, you should question everything—especially the teacher. This is the Socratic Method taught by the ancient philosopher, Socrates, where the teacher and the student are equals searching for truth. With that search comes intellectual humility, grace, and wisdom. Even at the end of all the lessons, the philosophy of knowing nothing endures.
Read more about the idea of knowing nothing in the Orientation.
Method 3
Modular, Short, Practical Lessons To keep a focused attention, the lessons are made short. We want to foster understanding without distraction, so the idea is to give easy-to-do exercises to understand the point. These are not meant to oversimplify human emotions or to optimize enduring real hardships. These lessons are encouraged to be discussed so that there is emergent learning on a student-by-student basis. The modular format allows the student to start and stop on their own time. We understand that the program’s material is not easy, but we want to make it accessible to anyone, especially those who have busy schedules.
Method 4
Captain Theme The concepts behind the lessons in the program are not easy to understand. We use this theme as a metaphor to convert abstract thoughts into concrete lessons. The theme is a metaphor of a captain sailing a ship in the late 1400s. This gives the student a recurring situation as an anchor point for understanding difficult concepts. The context of the captain theme is how the program’s material is easily accommodated and integrated.
Read more about the Captain Theme.
Method 5
Clear Agenda, Moral, and Mnemonics Each lesson features an overview that contains the agenda for the lesson, the overall moral, and mnemonic devices to help the student recall the lesson. Life is busy, and with these features, a student can not only quickly access information, but remember the morals and teach them to others.
Method 6
Question Driven The title of each lesson is offered first as a question because that is how people start trying to find answers. The Scientific Method shows us that we fist make an observation, then we ask a question. To find the answer, we must experiment. This program seeks to mimic this style of learning paired with the Socratic Method discussed in Method 2. The lessons are named more simply by the name given to them in the cascading outline, The Powers.
Browse the question-driven lesson titles in the Lessons section.
Questions & Answers
Why are these delivery methods helpful? Most students live predictable lives: they wake up, study/work, then sleep. Everyday life presents its own challenges, but it’s predictable, repetitive, and safe. It can be mundane and uninspiring. This limits the student’s ability to learn because it restricts their chances to experience life in new ways.
However, imagination can take the student anywhere, put them in dynamic situations, and teach real-life, practical life lessons that the student may never have had the chance to learn in their real life. We want to use the imagination to make hard concepts easy to understand and use.
Why is the symbolism of the captain theme important? We are using the symbols to paint an analogy of the big picture of not only life, but what might come after. The Captain’s Manual helps students shift their frame of reference and open their minds. Even though most people don’t know much about sailing, it’s the perfect way to humble oneself in the face of new information. Students of the program learn not to run from emotions. They learn their power and face emotions with confidence.
Q: Do I really need to find the Holographic Prize? A: You are the judge. Many people will say, “I don’t need this,” and others will say, “I already have this”. How confident are they with their conclusions? Sometimes, they don’t take a moment to learn what it is they might be missing! A few people may be able to reflect honestly and maybe they will realize that they do need it. Only you can know the answer to this question, but please take time to think on it. Whatever happens in your life, the confident realization that everything will be OK is the least one should feel.
More Questions About the Program.
How to Start
You can start by going to Orientation and then looking at the available lessons. Be an active student by writing a journal as you go through the program. Be interactive with the things you read by asking yourself questions and trying to answer them.
Working with Teacher Kelly
If you want to take the course with me, you can contact me on Line. Click or scan the QR code, and be sure to send me a message saying hello so that I see you! Feel free to ask any questions.
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