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Pasión Acceleration Program

A mentoring-based program for high-school students to explore their interests, values, and passions, and turn those discoveries into action.

About Pasión

About Pasión Acceleration Program

From “I want to try” to exploring life on your own terms.

Pasión is an eight-week acceleration program for high-school students, beginning with what they want to try. It supports a cycle of thinking, acting, and learning through experience, from discovering an interest to taking a first step and deciding what comes next.

The focus is the process of asking questions, thinking, and making choices. Through conversation and reflection, mentors offer perspectives and resources so that each student can choose their own next step.

8 weeks, your next step

The eight-week journey

Explore, try, reflect—and choose a next step of your own.

  1. WEEK01

    Discover

    Explore your inner world

    Put your interests, questions, and things you care about into words.

  2. WEEK02

    Expand

    Step beyond the familiar

    Explore unfamiliar fields and people, and find connections with your interests.

  3. WEEK03

    Create

    Find more possibilities

    Develop several directions from one interest instead of settling on the first idea.

  4. WEEK04

    Question

    Ask what you really want

    Use questions from others to revisit the connection between your interests and ideas.

  5. WEEK05

    Plan

    Shape a first step

    Create a realistic starting plan that lets you act, without waiting for perfection.

  6. WEEK06

    Try

    Meet the real world

    Take action and reflect on what happened, what surprised you, and what you learned.

  7. WEEK07

    Decide

    Choose what comes next

    Gather information and perspectives, then decide your next action from experience.

  8. WEEK08

    Grow

    Recognize your own agency

    Reflect on your choices and growth, and choose a next step beyond the program.

This outline reflects the current program design and may be refined through review and delivery.

Curriculum

Curriculum

A detailed guide to the learning and activities across the eight weeks.

Curriculum guide

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The document will be available here when ready.

Our message

Why we created Pasión

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Pasión is a mentoring program that helps high-school students turn “I want to try” and “I want to explore my interests” into real action.

Many students want to try something new but hesitate because they do not know where to start, fear failure, or have no one to turn to for advice.

University-student mentors provide ongoing support. Rather than giving answers, they use conversation to help students understand their interests and values, consider what they want to do and what they can do now, and turn small steps into action.

Alongside mentoring, lectures and feedback from university faculty, workshops, exchanges with students from other schools, and presentations offer opportunities to encounter different perspectives and ways of learning.

By exploring their interests and connecting them with social challenges and value for others, students develop the ability to ask their own questions, think, and act.

Pasión aims to go beyond conventional guidance on education and careers.

We want students to consider what kind of life they want to lead and what value they want to create for society, and to develop the ability to shape their own future.

We nurture each small desire to try into a challenge that connects with society.

Pasión believes in the potential of high-school students and supports their first step.

For participation or collaboration inquiries, please contact us using the form.

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