One of the major reasons I enjoy wild teens so much is they keep teaching me about them, myself, and the process of adolescence. I've learned to be wary of youth workers who consider themselves too much of an "expert" to learn anything from kids. When an adult stops learning from teens, he or she has stopped learning overall and has come to falsely believe they know all they need to know.
Teens help keep me fresh, humble, and in the learning mode. After all, the only true expert on the adolescent process is someone currently going through it. After working with teens from 100 countries, I have a broad, cross-cultural and archetypal view of the entire process of adolescence. Part of Labyrinth Center's philosophy of Prevention is to bring interesting, creative and useful trainings and classes to parents and other adults working with teens.

Bret

 

Workshops, Presentations & Classes

   I teach and facilitate a number of workshops, as well as give presentations on adolescence and my material.  The only thing more interesting than working with teens is teaching about them.  Below are links to pages explaining the workshops and presentations I do.  Most of my material is modular, so to speak, so that it can be mixed and matched, or broken down into smaller or individual components.  Also, most material is appropriate for anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who works with adolescents:   Foster parents, group home or residential staff, teachers, case or social workers, therapists, and of course, good old-fashioned biological parents.

 

To access the Workshops, click on any image below..


The Adolescent Mind starts conceptual and historical, looking at how adolescents have been worldwide and throughout history.  Then it narrows down in focus to dealing with modern, American youth.

 

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The Journey™ is David Oldfield's amazing mythological guided imagery for teens, accompanied by an array of exercises, artwork, mask making, etc.

 

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The Hero's Journey is a classic, archetypal model for helping teens through adolescence and into manhood or womanhood.  Used across the globe and throughout millennia, the Hero's Journey can be used to track individuals, or it can be woven into treatment models.

 

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Guided Imagery & Visualization Workshop--Learn to deliver and create guided imageries.  Fun and imaginative, these help get you symbols and metaphors from your clients or children.

 

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The Adolescent Spirit picks up where the Adolescent Mind leaves off.  This workshop is experiential, putting into practice the concepts learned in the Adolescent Mind.  Topics include dreamwork, mask making, personal mythologies, and storytelling, among others.

 

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Transpersonal Approaches to Working with At-Risk and High-Risk Youth
This highly creative workshop helps expand skills and approaches to working with teens.  Participants learn to make masks, guided imagery, use labyrinths, storytelling, ritual and ceremony, as well as many other innovative techniques that approach the teen as a whole person: mind, body and spirit.

 

 

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Last Updated June 1, 2009