Enabling Young People to Thrive

Purpose
You uncover, embody and start being more skillful in understanding young clients in fresh, dynamic, powerful ways.

Outcomes
• You become aware of how you automatically understand young people so you can set it aside and instead meet them with unbounded openness.
• You become tremendously more empathetic and emotionally attuned to all types of young people.
• You have greater skill in assembling your impressions into a full robust understanding of young people

Core frameworks, distinctions, models:

• Model of experience and expression
• Framework of fundamental explanatory model
• Conditions for development (distinct from behavior modification)

Each intensive includes:

• Presencing practices for the practitioner to explore with young people
• Over seven elements explored in each intensive through an engaging, and embodied exercises
• Opportunity to work with each other in small groups to explore and apply the elements in practical ways
• Community discussions with question and response time
• Light assignments in between the scheduled sessions

Purpose
You enter a new world of connection, belonging, communication with young people by revealing and strengthening the bonds you already have with them

Outcomes
• You more sensitively appreciate the bonds that heal and adhere your life.
• You learn numerous ways to strengthen these bonds.
• You actively embrace a life of welcoming and treasuring your bonds with self, others and life.

Core frameworks, distinctions, models:

• Bonding as continuous movement of heart which animates care, openness and action
• Kinds of bonds that afford commitment, regulation and attunement
• Bonding as a healing element for our young clients and the world

Each intensive includes:

• Presencing practices for the practitioner to explore with young people
• Over seven elements explored in each intensive through an engaging, and embodied exercises
• Opportunity to work with each other in small groups to explore and apply the elements in practical ways
• Community discussions with question and response time
• Light assignments in between the scheduled sessions

Purpose
You experience greater grounding and clarity in responding to the developmental needs of the young people you work with

Outcomes
• You are more skillful in knowing/sensing what’s most important to attend to now in support of young people.
• You have more competence in a wide range of powerful methods in facilitating young people.
• You have a more nuanced view of the developmental arc in the life of young people.

Core frameworks, distinctions, models:

• Supporting skill acquisition in young people
• Responding to skill distortions and breakdowns
• Integrating awareness, motivation, and support as a caring adult

Each intensive includes:

• Presencing practices for the practitioner to explore with young people
• Over seven elements explored in each intensive through an engaging, and embodied exercises
• Opportunity to work with each other in small groups to explore and apply the elements in practical ways
• Community discussions with question and response time
• Light assignments in between the scheduled sessions

Purpose

You will experience and learn about the extraordinary transformative power of ceremonies, rites of passage and community support in the lives of young people

Outcomes

• You will have a greater capacity to speak about the central importance of rites of passage for young people so they see their relevance for themselves.
• You will be more able to support young people integrating rites of passage into their lives.
• You will have more skill in spontaneously inventing mini ceremonial moments with young people.

Core frameworks, distinctions, models:

• Designing for rites of passage to support transitions into new identities and responsibilities.
• Bringing forth more secure attachment in the world
• Connecting to vastness of potentiality.
• Reconciling paradoxes through leaps of faith.

Each intensive includes:

• Presencing practices for the practitioner to explore with young people
• Over seven elements explored in each intensive through an engaging, and embodied exercises
• Opportunity to work with each other in small groups to explore and apply the elements in practical ways
• Community discussions with question and response time
• Light assignments in between the scheduled sessions

Three 90-minute integration calls between sessions to deepen your learning and receive feedback on your application of the material.

All calls: 4:30-6:00pm PT