Commons for Mentors

Becoming a steamHouse Mentor

The frameworks wrap around whatever you're already doing.

The Bridge

Mentors are the essential bridge between curriculum and transformation.

A framework sitting in a document changes nothing. A mentor who embodies the framework and walks alongside a developing person — that's where growth happens.

steamHouse mentor training equips you to guide conscious development through whatever activity you're already leading: sports teams, robotics clubs, classroom projects, youth groups, scout troops.

You don't need to start a new program. You need tools to make your current work develop the whole person.

The Wrap-Around Model

steamHouse isn't a curriculum that replaces what you're doing. It's a layer that wraps around any team or project-based activity:

What You're Already Doing

What steamHouse Adds

Robotics team

Framework for team dynamics, decision-making, failure processing

Theater production

Tools for emotional regulation, perspective-taking, collaboration

Sports season

Language for automatic vs. conscious, habit formation, pre-mortems

Classroom projects

Structure for reflection, feedback, growth mindset

Youth group

Principles for navigating disagreement, examining beliefs

Time investment: 2-3 hours across an entire season. Not a separate program — integrated moments.

What's Available

Bootstrap Guides — Activity-specific implementation guides

  • FIRST LEGO League

  • Theater Production

  • Soccer Team

  • 4-H Club

  • (more in development)

Universal Team Framework — 12 lessons addressing real team dynamics, usable with any group

The Manual — Complete curriculum for deep implementation (4 volumes, age-differentiated)

Mentor's Guide — Companion to the Manual with facilitation guidance

The Goal

The goal isn't to turn every activity into a steamHouse activity. It's to help young people become authors of their own lives — not characters in yours.

You're not installing a program. You're developing humans who can think consciously, act purposefully, and live connectedly.

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