Patrick Barrasso, who founded Balance Continuum of Treatment in Arizona, together with Molly McGinn, an expert on learning and the founder of Bloomtree Learning Communities and Treehouse Learning Communities in Arizona discussed adolescent rites of passage with Lon Woodbury on L.A. Talk Radio. Lon Woodbury, the host of Parent Choices for Struggling Teens, is the owner and founder of Woodbury Reports, Inc. He has actually consulted with family members and struggling teens since 1984.
About the Guests
Patrick Barrasso is the creator and Executive Director of In Harmony Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program. He is also the founder of the In Balance Ranch Academy. He is a therapist with over 25 years of adolescent counseling. He focuses on helping teens and young adults overcome drug abuse and regain psychological well-being. He has presented at the U.S. Journal Training National seminars. He has also presented at FACES--Family Addiction Conferences Educational Seminars on a range of teen treatment subjects. He has talked about the enormous obstacles of overcoming adolescent drug and alcohol abuse.
Meanwhile Dr. Molly McGinn is an internationally renowned learning specialist that has actually owned her very own business as a consultant for well over 17 years. She develops and assists in the management and the administration of learning training programs for companies around the world. Dr. McGinn holds an MA and a Ph.D. from UCLA in Cultural Anthropology. She taught at the Academy of Science in Sichuan Province in China for two years, in addition to working in Tibet after the Chinese takeover. A polylinguist, she is is fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish and English.
Adolescent Rites of Passage
The interview began with Patrick clarifying adolescent rites of passage as an age old custom engaged in by tribal cultures all over the world, and he went into detail about how it helped young people make a strong distinction between the fading of youth and their emerging adult years. These ancient rites were not merely a ceremony, but a way to demarcate change from one state to another. Basically, it's a symbolic representation of the death of childhood years and the birthing of their adult years. Initiation rites should be unique and affirmative to leave age-related habits behind and initiate totally new adult behaviors.
Patrick mentioned that there were three phases in this process. The initial stage marked a complete surrendering of the old lifestyle. The second phase marked crossing a threshold, a change that involved significant confusion. Lastly, the third and final stage marked incorporation, which was clearly a time when the new maturation was being welcomed.
Molly explained rites of passages from her perspective as an anthropologist. She emphasized the role of mentors to guide young people to experience the rites of passage. Since modern culture often lacked elders to initiate young people, youth tended to initiate their own rites of passages by joining street gangs.
The show concluded with the agreement that if formal adolescent rites of passages were introduced in our current culture, it would create an enormous shift for the better as youth took on a greater sense of responsibility.
About the Guests
Patrick Barrasso is the creator and Executive Director of In Harmony Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program. He is also the founder of the In Balance Ranch Academy. He is a therapist with over 25 years of adolescent counseling. He focuses on helping teens and young adults overcome drug abuse and regain psychological well-being. He has presented at the U.S. Journal Training National seminars. He has also presented at FACES--Family Addiction Conferences Educational Seminars on a range of teen treatment subjects. He has talked about the enormous obstacles of overcoming adolescent drug and alcohol abuse.
Meanwhile Dr. Molly McGinn is an internationally renowned learning specialist that has actually owned her very own business as a consultant for well over 17 years. She develops and assists in the management and the administration of learning training programs for companies around the world. Dr. McGinn holds an MA and a Ph.D. from UCLA in Cultural Anthropology. She taught at the Academy of Science in Sichuan Province in China for two years, in addition to working in Tibet after the Chinese takeover. A polylinguist, she is is fluent in Mandarin, Japanese, Spanish and English.
Adolescent Rites of Passage
The interview began with Patrick clarifying adolescent rites of passage as an age old custom engaged in by tribal cultures all over the world, and he went into detail about how it helped young people make a strong distinction between the fading of youth and their emerging adult years. These ancient rites were not merely a ceremony, but a way to demarcate change from one state to another. Basically, it's a symbolic representation of the death of childhood years and the birthing of their adult years. Initiation rites should be unique and affirmative to leave age-related habits behind and initiate totally new adult behaviors.
Patrick mentioned that there were three phases in this process. The initial stage marked a complete surrendering of the old lifestyle. The second phase marked crossing a threshold, a change that involved significant confusion. Lastly, the third and final stage marked incorporation, which was clearly a time when the new maturation was being welcomed.
Molly explained rites of passages from her perspective as an anthropologist. She emphasized the role of mentors to guide young people to experience the rites of passage. Since modern culture often lacked elders to initiate young people, youth tended to initiate their own rites of passages by joining street gangs.
The show concluded with the agreement that if formal adolescent rites of passages were introduced in our current culture, it would create an enormous shift for the better as youth took on a greater sense of responsibility.
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Lon Woodbury, the founder of L.A. Talk Radio show for people to at their convenience.
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