For Parents

給家長

Your child has been part of this community for a while. You've watched them grow through the camps, through being a TA, through Connexpedition. GO-YCA Training is where that growth becomes intentional.

Here's what the research tells us. The brain's prefrontal cortex, the part responsible for decision-making, emotional regulation, and judgment, isn't fully developed until the mid-twenties. But how it develops depends on experience. The environments and challenges you give a young person during adolescence shape how they handle pressure for the rest of their life. This is the window.

Psychologist Albert Bandura's research on self-efficacy shows that real confidence isn't built through encouragement. It's built through doing something hard, getting through it, and knowing you did. That's what we design for.

The Harvard Study of Adult Development, which followed people for over 85 years, found that the quality of a person's relationships predicts their long-term health and wellbeing more than wealth, achievement, or status. The foundation for that starts now.

GO-YCA Training gives your child one and a half days to practice, in a room full of people who already share a common history, what it actually feels like to be resilient, to collaborate under pressure, and to move without being told to. Then the full year of GO-YCA continues that practice, every three weeks, with real projects and real stakes.

This isn't another item on a college application. It's practice for being a person.

您的孩子成長在一個 AI 可以幫他查資料、寫報告、甚至模擬決策的時代。這個時代不缺答案，缺的是知道「該問什麼問題」的人。

研究告訴我們，大腦的前額葉皮質負責判斷、情緒調節和真實的決策能力，要到二十五歲左右才完全成熟。而這樣的發展方式，並非透過不斷輸入資訊養成，反而得依賴靠真實的經歷和人際互動不斷強化。

社會學習理論創始人、心理學家 Bandura 的研究指出，真正的自信，不是靠別人告訴你「你可以的」建立起來的。研究顯示，它來自真實做過一件困難的事，卡住過，然後自己走出來的那個經驗。這件事，AI 無法替任何人完成。

更重要的是，哈佛大學歷時 85 年的成人發展研究發現，決定一個人長期身心健康的指標，不是成就或財富，而是人際關係的品質。在疫情之後，在人工智慧不斷生成更厲害的模型當下，在一個人與人之間的連結越來越被螢幕取代的時代，這樣的能力需要刻意練習。

GO-YCA Training 給您的孩子一天半的時間，在一群有共同背景的人之中，練習那些 AI 時代最難被取代的事：在壓力下認識自己、在摩擦裡繼續合作、在沒有人要求的情況下主動站出來。接下來一整年的 GO-YCA，讓這個練習持續下去，積累出一個青少年通往成人時期，自己更喜歡、也更有自信面對複雜世界的樣子。