LAINIE LIBERTI
Helping Your Teen Get Ready to Launch
How can parents support their young people as they prepare to move out into the world? Lainie talks about what parents can do to be helpful in this transition.
Lainie Liberti is the founder and creator of the Transformative Mentoring for Teens program. She is an author, speaker, community leader, teen coach, adolescent behavioral specialist, and alternative education advocate, widely recognized as a pioneer in the worldschooling movement.
Lainie specializes in confidence-building and mental health support for teens and young people. In 2012, she co-founded Project World School alongside her son, helping to redefine education through experiential, self-directed learning. Through this work, Lainie designs and co-facilitates immersive, month-long teen retreats around the world that foster autonomy, emotional intelligence, and global perspective.
Over the past decade, Lainie has facilitated more than 20 international retreats for hundreds of teens, guiding participants through cultural immersion, values exploration, and deep personal growth. Her work centers on helping young people develop self-trust, emotional resilience, and a strong sense of identity in an increasingly complex world.
In 2022, Lainie released her first book, Seen, Heard & Understood: Parenting and Partnering with Teens for Greater Mental Health, which became a #1 Amazon Best Seller in Parenting New Releases. Her work continues to bridge mental health, education, and conscious parenting through a partnership-based approach.
