LifeXchange - Youth Development

We at LifeXchange focus on a sustainable transformation of youth-at-risk, through the ‘holistic life mentoring process’ aka HLMP. We use extreme sports and adventure activities to make initial connection with troubled youth and from there facilitate the development of one-on-one mentorship/discipleship relationships. These extreme sports and adventure activities serve as an opportunity for shared learning experiences between the mentor and mentee. We also assess and evaluate everything in the young person’s life to determine where “they are at” and what is required in which areas of their life to change their life story, turning it into a success story. We’ve had gangsters become dive instructors, drug lords become qualified tour guides and street drunkards become designers. Their stories continue to amaze us and although these are all the “big” successes we can boast about, we also see the “little” success stories in many of these young people’s lives daily.

A vast amount of internationally recognized training is spent on equipping our mentors with practical, as well as scientific knowledge, on how to properly connect, relate to and engage with their mentees in order to bring about sustainable change.

Research in youth-at-risk intervention is a major foundational element of LifeXchange, and we are forging the way ahead by being on the forefront of groundbreaking research. We are specialists in our field with our desire to be international trendsetters in youth-at-risk intervention and making the HLMP approach the preferred choice globally.