1997–2023
Classroom & student development
Taught history, geography and civics across Lebanese, French and American programmes while designing advisory, community-building and service-learning experiences.
About Mindyouths
Growth begins when young people become active authors of their own choices.
Mindyouths adopts educational and youth-development practices built to strengthen the human skills that school achievement alone cannot guarantee.
Our conviction
Young people are not problems to be fixed.
They are people in the process of becoming—capable of insight, choice and meaningful change when the right questions, tools and practice are placed within reach.
Mindyouths does not hand young people a script for life. It creates safe, structured experiences where they can examine how they think, recognise what drives their behaviour and practise better responses in situations that matter.
The result we work toward is not a temporary burst of motivation. It is greater self-awareness, psychological flexibility, independent judgment and the capacity to translate intention into action.
Founder
Fida Alayli
Educational Development Specialist · Curriculum & School Improvement Leader · Certified Youth Well-being Coach
Fida's perspective has been formed through more than 25 years inside classrooms, academic teams, curricula and multi-school improvement systems.
Across Lebanon and the MENA region, she has designed and reviewed curricula, monitored their implementation, analysed student performance, mentored teachers and coordinators, and translated findings into practical improvement plans.
Her curriculum and project work includes contributing to multilingual programmes in Arabic, English and French; authoring the Grade 6 Social Studies textbook Small World; and developing curricula and teacher-training materials for the Syrian Refugee Education Project at the American University of Beirut.
Experience in perspective
From educational systems to youth transformation.
MindYouths is not a departure from Fida’s career in education, but its natural evolution—the definitive expression of what decades in the field have proven about how growth actually unfolds.
2016–2023
Academic & curriculum leadership
Led Social Studies provision at International College, aligning curriculum expectations, teacher development and student-outcome improvement.
2023–2025
Regional school-network development
Supported curriculum design, implementation monitoring, assessment analysis and academic improvement across the SABIS school network in the MENA region.
2025–Present
Founder of Mindyouths
Bringing educational depth and youth coaching and mentoring together in practical programmes for young people, schools, educators and organisations across Lebanon and the region.
Credentials & grounding
A practitioner shaped by education, evidence and context.
Certified Youth Well-being CoachYouth Coaching Institute, 2025 · 36 coach-specific education hours
Multilingual practiceNative Arabic · Fluent English · Fluent French
Curriculum author & trainerTextbook, teacher-development and education-project experience
The Youth Well-being Coach designation is a partial-completion certificate within the Youth Coaching Institute's ICF Level 1 Accredited Certified Youth Resilience Coach Program. It should not be read as an individual ICF credential.
Services scope
A platform built to serve individuals and institutions.
Mindyouths s.a.r.l. activities cultivate a broad, integrated frameworks for education and personal growth.
Advanced educational services and practical skills training
Personalised youth coaching and mentoring
Professional development for educators and employees
Curriculum, learning and educational-product consulting
Workshops, seminars, training events and conferences
Practical training and talent-development opportunities
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