Classes
Pick a lane. Or take a bit of everything.
Every Life Shop class is free — no fees, no materials cost, no catch. Core is the stuff everybody should know before they leave home. The other three are for wherever you’re headed next. Electives are just because they’re fun.
Tap a track to see what’s inside.
You’re here at dinnertime. So you eat — free. Come to class, stay for Open Shop, and you get a full five-part dinner and a three-part snack. Every day. No cost, no catch.
Core The stuff nobody sits you down and explains — money, talking to people, staying sane, and the paperwork of being a person.
Mindset & goals
- Kickstart Your LifeWork out what you actually want, then build a plan to go get it.
- After High School… What’s Next?Job, college, trade school, business. Look through all four doors before you pick one.
- Taking Smart RisksThe difference between a risk worth taking and one that just wrecks you.
Communication
- Public Speaking Like a ProStand up, talk, and not want to disappear. It’s a skill, not a personality type.
- Mastering Difficult ConversationsSay the hard thing without it turning into a fight.
- How to Make Friends Anytime, AnywhereWalk into a room where you know nobody and leave knowing people.
- Negotiation: How to Get What You WantAsk for more — pay, curfew, the price of a car. There’s an actual method.
Money
- Financial AdultingAll the money stuff nobody taught you, in one class.
- Your Paycheck & Taxes, DecodedWhy your first paycheck is smaller than you expected, and where the rest went.
- Budgeting IRLA budget you’ll actually stick to, built around what a teen actually earns.
- Credit & Loans: Use It, Don’t Get UsedHow credit scores really work, and how not to end up buried.
Health & wellbeing
- Stress Management — It’s Not That DeepTools for when school, work and everything else land at the same time.
- Understanding & Managing EmotionsName what you’re feeling so it stops running your whole day.
- First Aid: Save a LifeWhat to do in the minutes before help arrives. Hands-on, and you’ll remember it forever.
Professionalism
- Dress the PartWhat to wear so people take you seriously — on any budget.
Digital & future skills
- Master AI… Before It’s Too LateUse AI properly while most people are still guessing at it.
- Excel at ExcelSpreadsheets are a genuine superpower and almost nobody your age has it.
- Cyber Smart: Scams, Privacy & Online SafetyTeens are the number one scam target. Learn to see it coming.
Life logistics
- Your First Apartment: Renting 101Leases, deposits, roommates and renters insurance — before you sign anything.
Get a Job Everything from working out what you’d be good at to walking out of the interview with the offer.
Explore
- Career Clusters: Explore the OptionsWay more jobs exist than you’ve ever heard of. Go and find yours.
- Reading the Job MarketWhat actually pays around here, and which fields are growing.
Search
- How to Find a Job TodayIndeed, referrals, and walking in the door. What still works right now.
- Personal Brand & NetworkingA profile that doesn’t look empty, and how to ask someone for an introduction.
Apply
- Build a Résumé That Gets ReadOne page that survives the six seconds someone actually gives it.
Interview
- Acing the InterviewWalk in, read the room, and leave them wanting you.
On the job
- AI at Work: Tools That Make You BetterUse AI on the job — and understand how employers are using it to screen you.
- Capstone: The Job PacketReal résumé, real applications, a mock-interview panel and a first-90-days plan. Judged by actual people.
Higher Education College, community college or trade school — how to choose it, get in, and pay for it without drowning in loans.
Foundations
- School Cheat CodesStudy less, score higher. The tricks nobody bothers to tell you.
- ACT / SAT PrepStrategy and real practice for the test that opens doors.
Choose
- Picking Your Major & SchoolUniversity, community college or trade school. Choose on facts instead of vibes.
Apply
- Essays That Open DoorsWrite the personal statement that makes them remember your name.
Pay for it
- FAFSA & Financial Aid, Step by StepSit down and actually fill it in. This is where free money starts.
- Scholarship HuntingWhere scholarships hide, and how to write the ones that win.
Succeed
- Capstone: The Acceptance PacketApplications in, personal statement done, FAFSA filed, five-plus scholarships applied for, and a real plan to pay for year one.
Start a Business Take an idea from “what if” to a real thing that makes real money — and finish by launching it.
Foundations
- Dream It, Do It: Start Your Own BusinessFrom “I’ve got an idea” to something that actually exists.
- Find Your Idea: Validation 101Find out whether anyone will pay for it before you spend months building it.
Plan
- The One-Page Business PlanYour whole business on a single page. No forty-page document nobody reads.
Money
- Money Does Grow on Trees: Investing UnlockedStart investing now, while the thing you have most of is time.
Build
- The Creative Edge: Graphic DesignMake a brand that looks like it cost money.
- Your First Website Made EasyBuild and launch a real website. No coding required.
Sell
- Side Hustles & the Gig EconomyThe apps, the taxes nobody warns you about, and when a hustle becomes a business.
- Capstone: Launch DayLaunch a real micro-business. Build the brand and the site, make your first actual sale, then pitch it Shark-Tank-style to a panel.
Electives No track, no requirement, no reason beyond wanting to. Turn up and make something.
Auto Shop
- Build Your Own CarGet your hands dirty and build a car. An actual one, with actual tools.
Creative
- Filmmaking 1: Pre-ProductionIdea, script, shot list — everything that happens before the camera rolls.
- Filmmaking 2: ProductionCameras, lighting and sound. This is the part where you actually shoot it.
- Filmmaking 3: Post-ProductionCut it, score it and color it into something people want to watch.
- Filmmaking 4: Technical SkillsThe gear and the technique that separate a good film from an obvious first attempt.
- Podcasting: Record, Edit, PostGet behind the mic in a real studio, cut the episode, and put it out into the world.
Tech
- 3D PrintingDesign it on a screen, hold it in your hand an hour later.
- Intro to CodingWrite your first real code. Genuinely no experience needed.
Just for fun
- Ukulele JamminLearn enough chords to play songs people recognize. Faster than you’d think.
- How to Solve a Rubik’s CubeLearn the method, then solve it in under two minutes in front of people.
- Stitch & ChillSew, patch and customise your own stuff instead of binning it.
- YogaStretch out, breathe, and put your phone down for a whole hour.
Open Shop
Come learn something. Then the place is yours.
Come and pick up a skill — that’s the whole ask, and it’s the part we care about. Classes run about an hour, they’re free, and you don’t need to know anything before you walk in.
Then, when class finishes, the whole building opens up. We call it Open Shop — no booking, no extra fee, no minimum. Learn something, then go and enjoy the place.
Everything in the building is switched on and free to use:
- RC and slot car racing
- Driving simulators
- Arcade machines
- Console and video gaming
- A wall of board games
- Billiards and ping pong
- Cornhole
- A huge mobile skate park
- The podcast studio — record, edit and post it
Bring a friend, bring three, or turn up on your own and find people here. Friday nights are tournament nights — poker, ping pong, Mario Kart, bingo, trivia, minute to win it and cornhole, free to enter, every week.
Open Shop costs nothing on top of the class — and the class was free too. There is nothing at Life Shop you have to pay for.
Food
You eat here. Every day, on us.
Two meals are served every single day, free, to every teen who attends classes. Neither one costs you anything.
A full five-part meal
A proper meal with five components — not a bag of chips and a juice box.
A three-part snack
A second sitting later on, so nobody’s running on empty by the evening.
You don’t need to sign up for it, ask for it, qualify for it, or explain anything to anybody. Come to class and eat. That goes for every teen who attends — no exceptions and no questions.
Come say hello
Classes are free, Open Shop is free, the food is free, and Friday nights are tournament nights. Just come.