Life Shop Warriors complete a cooking pre- survey that asks them to select the kitchen skills they would like to work on during cooking when at the Life Shop. Â The survey asks them to either provide their desired skill or select skills from the list that includes cooking with a knife, food processor, microwave, stove, or oven. They were free to choose one skill or multiple skills. Â Then they will be scheduled to receive individualized cooking classes with Life Coach & Culinary Director Joe for a period of five weeks. Â Each day they cook, Life Coach Joe will work with the Warriors to select recipes that focus on using the skills specified on their pre-survey. Â After they cook a meal the Warrior is asked to fill out a daily reflection that measures how they thought the day went and if they felt that progress was being made towards their personal goal. Â Warrior Max was our first to participate in this MyWP cooking program. Â One of the skills he selected was cooking with an oven. Â During the first few weeks Max asked Joe to put to place and remove food from the oven, he did not feel comfortable doing this on his own. Â However, during the last week Max not only cooked his very own banana bread independently, but he also removed it from the oven after it was finished cooking! Â We couldn’t be prouder of Max. Â Check out the quick video of Max removing his banana bread from the oven.