If you have reached level 10 then after the intro talk you'll automatically be given the merit badge for Pyrokinesis. Then you'll automatically go into the training for this new ability, so try it out.
Feel free to talk to Ford about anything you'd like, there's a whole list of options, but you'll have to tell him 'Sasha says I need to fight better" and he'll give you the learners permit you need. When you tell him you're leaving he'll give you a piece of bacon and tell you he's going to stow away inside your head. Whenever you'd like to talk to him about anything just go into your backpack and use the piece of bacon to bring him out.
If you turn directly around from looking at Ford and go to the edge of the platform you are on you can jump out to another platform, from here you can jump up and to your right to a platform with a Psi-Card on top of it. Now jump down below this area you are standing on and there is one Psi-Card you can find if you run around in the water down here. Now head to the machines in the middle and you'll get a briefing on how they work.
You should have plenty of fixed Psi-Cards you can put together if you've bought enough Psi-Cores. We now have enough to complete 6 Markers which means 6 rankings! Just stand in front of the machine and press 'Y' and it will put in all the cards and cores possible at this time.
Now you can head to the main lodge if you choose to to grab the Dowsing Rod which will help you greatly in finding arrowheads or just go back to Sasha's lab to take advantage of this learners permit you received.