THE NEXT CHOICE MATTERS.
A moment can change a life. We help people recognize that moment — and choose a different direction.
01 / A DIFFERENT APPROACH
THE PERSON BEFORE THE PROBLEM.Behind a reaction is a thinking pattern.
Behind that pattern is a person.
Instinctive Choices brings lived experience and practical decision-making education to the space between a trigger and a consequence. Alex Snow helps people understand their choices, take accountability, and build a way forward.
From a school assembly to individual mentoring, the work begins with trust — and continues with tools people can use in real life.
Build trust with someone who understands the stakes.
Recognize the thinking that turns pressure into a reaction.
Practice accountability, repair, and a future worth protecting.
02 / THE WORK
REAL CONVERSATIONS. PRACTICAL SKILLS.One message. Many ways to make it matter.
Every engagement is shaped around the people in the room.
Individual and group support that helps young people work through pressure, conflict, identity, and the choices that shape their future.
Assemblies, small-group discussions, and customizable curriculum that give students space to talk honestly about the situations they face.
Decision-making education and mentoring for people navigating conflict or justice-system involvement, alongside conversations that help communities and institutions understand each other.
Education and practical guidance to recognize harmful patterns, improve communication, and take responsibility for the choices that affect the people closest to us.
Book Alex for an honest, engaging conversation about choice, consequence, and change. Sessions are tailored for students, parents, educators, coaches, community leaders, justice professionals, or workplace audiences.
CERTIFIED COURSES & CURRICULUM
Focused learning for everyday decisions. Ask about course format, availability, and completion requirements.
These programs focus on education and mentoring. They do not replace licensed mental health care.
03 / THE IC PAUSE
A SMALL PAUSE. A DIFFERENT POSSIBILITY.A five-step decision-making framework.
Select a step to explore the practice.
NOTICE THE SIGNAL.
A racing heart. Clenched fists. A louder voice. Recognize what your body is telling you: a choice is coming.
“What am I feeling right now?”
04 / FIND YOUR STARTING POINT
PEOPLE FIRST. PURPOSE BUILT.Explore current work and the next generation of Instinctive Choices programs. Pilot and planned programs are marked below.
Showing all 7 programs.
MUNICIPALITIES · YOUTH & YOUNG ADULTS
A community-based point of contact for conflict resolution, mediation, school re-engagement, support groups, and connection to positive activities.
Discuss a municipal partnershipSCHOOLS · ORGANIZATIONS · COMMUNITIES
Alex’s lived experience brought to your audience through keynotes, assemblies, panels, workshops, and tailored professional training.
Book a conversation that mattersGROUP HOMES · COURT-REFERRED YOUTH
A planned mix of group sessions, individual mentoring, enrichment, and continuity after discharge. Built around accountability, identity, and connection.
Ask about the pilotMIDDLE & EARLY HIGH SCHOOL
A small-group school program designed around decision-making, peer influence, goals, and accountability, with individual check-ins and follow-up.
Explore a school pilotPARENTS · CAREGIVERS · TEENS
A workshop model for communication without escalation, structure without conflict, and repairing relationships after difficult moments.
Ask about future participationYOUNG ADULTS · AGES 18–25
A proposed pathway connecting decision-making and mentoring with career credentials, financial literacy, employment readiness, and everyday stability.
Explore a development partnershipCOMMUNITY PROVIDERS · REFERRAL PARTNERS
The Coalition Backbone is a proposed coordination model that brings mentoring, enrichment, reentry support, and referral partners together. The goal: a clearer path from a referral to the right support, including community activities such as boxing and barbering through partners.
Help build the connectionNot sure where to begin? Tell us who you’re trying to reach. We’ll discuss the right format, availability, and next step.
Let’s talk
The lived experience
behind the work.
05 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE WORK
Alex Snow spent 17 years behind bars. The lessons he carried out became the foundation of Instinctive Choices.
His story begins with accountability. The decisions that led to his incarceration affected victims, their families, and his own loved ones. Those consequences remain part of his story — and part of the responsibility he brings to this work.
While incarcerated, Alex embraced academic and social education. He began examining the thinking patterns that had disconnected him from his community: misplaced loyalty, impulsive reactions, and choices made without fully confronting their consequences. Understanding those patterns gave him a different way to think about his life and his future.
Through the S.C.O.R.E. program, he shared those lessons with students, teachers, counselors, and correctional staff. Those conversations showed him how his experience could help young people recognize the stakes of a decision before facing consequences of their own.
Alex returned to the community with a commitment to mentor and guide young people. That commitment became Instinctive Choices. Today, he brings his experience into schools, community settings, and youth intervention work in Rhode Island — creating space for honest conversations about anger, loyalty, relationships, accountability, and change.
Seventeen years is part of what he brings into every room. So is the belief that a person can take responsibility for the past and still choose a different future.
Bring Alex to your community06 / BUILT AROUND YOUR COMMUNITY
Schools, families, municipalities, courts, and community organizations see different parts of the same person’s life. Instinctive Choices helps bridge those conversations.
Build a partnershipTell us about your audience, setting, and the challenges you’re seeing.
Discuss the right mix of speaking, mentoring, curriculum, and partner support.
Agree on practical goals, follow-through, and measures appropriate to the work.
07 / THE NEXT CHOICE
START WITH A CONVERSATION.Book Alex to speak. Explore mentoring or a program. Build a partnership for your school, organization, or community.