Purpose: Honing a Sense of Why? Relieves Stress, Improves Learning, Builds Maturity, Aids College Entry

While understanding your "purpose" can have a superficial and easy answer, giving thought to the deeper meaning and genuinely understanding their own "Why" both protects and develops your teen.

Ask Yourself Why Newport?
We focus on why—on our purpose and on helping students find theirs. We use lessons in knowledge and skills to teach our students 

• to gather quality information;
• to process information using the best from a variety of tools;
• to collaborate creatively to make decisions and solve problems;
• to understand and believe in their choices.

Our Why?
Teach our students the mental, physical, and psychological skills to continually learn and adapt in a rapidly changing and increasingly diverse world.

Your student’s Why? 
Newport can help your students find their purpose. Through experience and exploration inside and outside the classroom, students find the subject that, with fascination, will drive them through education to a career they will pursue with vigor and success.

Why Does Purpose Matter?

Why catalyzes critical thinking by pinpointing what to accomplish.  Knowing why focuses activity onto impact.

A purpose lowers stress by eliminating what keeps us busy without making impact. Read more in Kelly McGonigal's book "The Upside of Stress."

Clear purpose alters daily pressures. Instead of fear-based stress, we experience healthy challenge-stress—enduring the discomfort to achieve something that matters. Challenge-stress prompts body chemistry and thought patterns that allow us to perform our best mentally and physically.

University of California Berkeley Center for Greater Good, and research done through the university, have identified multiple ways that a refined sense of purpose shapes a successful, happy, and fulfilling life. Learn more at How to Help Teens Find Purpose.