Decent: Alive Center helps teens find their passion

“Teens have so much potential, yet rarely do they get to use it,” says Jatin Mathur, a Naperville North High School senior. “Unlike other institutions and organizations, the Alive Center enables teens to do anything they want to.” As the founder of Alive’s...
The Stories We Tell

The Stories We Tell

By Kandice Henning What story do you tell yourself about your life? Life always continues to happen around us: ups and downs and everything in between. We cannot control life… who gets hurt, who dies, whether a disaster happens, etc.- but we can control our reaction....
To Ignore or Not to Ignore? Is that Really a Question?

To Ignore or Not to Ignore? Is that Really a Question?

By Kandice Henning, Alive Center Founder and CEO Somewhere along the way it became acceptable to ignore people as a form of communication instead of a simple “no” or “maybe”. We are living in a technological time where we frequently communicate via our devices....