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About Skills-Fare^®

[SkillsFare NPO is a registered NON-PROFIT 501(c)3]

A place to break free of the "specialization" paradigm...

Skills-Fare uses the instruction of 200+ skills to positively change perspective and attitude. Skills-Fare utilizes a specifically and purposefully designed method that affects individuals on personal, emotional, psychological, and biochemical levels.

You might be thinking, “well, my son/daughter is already an A student, and volunteers, and is headed to an IV League school — so we don’t need any such program to enhance/augment their academic needs.” That’s a good plan, but in this day-and-age, it’s insufficient. Sorry, but the reality is very harsh:

“800M jobs to be lost by 2035” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/automation-could-replace-up-to-800-million-jobs-by-2035-bank-of-america-merrill-lynch-171810646.html
“It’s going to be painful, some people who catch the wave will be rich, will be more successful. For everyone else, it will be more painful. The world is going to be data. The people will now have more data than the bosses…”In the next three decades, the world will experience far more pain than happiness… education systems must raise children to be more creative and curious or they will be ill-prepared for the future.” – Jack Ma of Alibaba https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/21/jack-ma-this-is-what-to-study-if-you-want-a-good-job-in-the-future.html

Skills-Fare is committed to opening up opportunities, in terms of employment to be sure, but also with respect to lifestyle and positive, personal outlook. Students grow from individuals to contributing, productive, community members. Artificial boundaries and constraints are removed, and replaced with a supportive infrastructure to accommodate what-ever the imagination brings!

Skills-Fare utilizes a well-defined and metrics-based method, derived from, and integrating multiple layers of:

Polymathic Awareness and Relationship-Building
Project-Based Learning
Engineering Concepts
Intelligence Collection and Analysis
Associative Learning
Linguistics
Cryptology
Meta-Cognition Techniques
Formal Rhetoric (Narrative and Metaphor)
Process Analysis
Pattern Recognition
Memory Retention Enhancement
Core Academic Instruction (Math, Science, Logic)
Artistic Methods
Flow Psychology
specific Neurological Studies from the 1990’s targeting learning and behavior — utilizing skills-training to increase performance of the GABA neural network (increasing number of, and cross-association of, GABA neural receptor-connections), which in turn, inherently manages the Dopamine construct to proper levels without the use of ingested drugs, and thereby reducing both apathy and its associated recidivism tendencies:

“The brain produces a giant cascade of neurochemistry. You get norepinephrine, dopamine, anandamide, serotonin and endorphins. All five of these are performance enhancing neurochemicals.” – Steven Kotler https://bigthink.com/videos/the-neurochemistry-of-flow-states-with-steven-kotler

Skills-Fare, by design, instills from within Self-Esteem, Self-Confidence, and Leadership. The Skills-Fare Program takes STE(A)M to a whole new level. Skills-Fare costs less per month for daily access to 200+ skills than a tutor will cost for 1hr/month for a single subject.

Most importantly: Skills-Fare works!

STUDENT, PARENT, & INSTRUCTOR TESTIMONIALS

L. Vazquez - Student

The first Skills-Fare class that I attended was an abstract art class. I was a slightly nervous as I had never attempted "abstract" art. After some nervousness on my part, I felt inspired by how liberating it was to create something that had never been created; there was no right way or wrong way. It was truly freeing. To this day, I am still super proud of that piece.

During the session, I noticed that the training is a very attentive and hands on; and encouraged us to think outside the box."