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.
Guest Background
Patrick Barrasso is the founder and Executive Director of In Harmony Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program, as well as the founder of the In Balance Ranch Academy. As a psychotherapist with over 25 years of extensive training in teen and adult drug abuse and mental health treatment, he has actually given lectures at the U.S. Journal Training National conferences, as well as at FACES, an acronym for Family and Addiction Conferences and Educational Seminars, speaking on a wide variety of teen treatment subjects, especially the difficulties of conquering teen substance 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 explaining teen initiation rites as something practiced by tribal societies. Ceremonies helped young people mark the difference between childhood years and adulthood. But more than just a ceremony, an initiation rite demarcates the shift from one state to another. Basically, it's symbolic of the death of childhood and the birth of adult years. Ceremonies of passages have to be unique and affirmative to leave familiar habits behind and learn brand-new habits.
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 ended with a common agreement that if formal adolescent rites of passages were introduced in our existing culture, it would make a massive change that would give young people a much greater understanding of their new adult roles and responsibilities.
Guest Background
Patrick Barrasso is the founder and Executive Director of In Harmony Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program, as well as the founder of the In Balance Ranch Academy. As a psychotherapist with over 25 years of extensive training in teen and adult drug abuse and mental health treatment, he has actually given lectures at the U.S. Journal Training National conferences, as well as at FACES, an acronym for Family and Addiction Conferences and Educational Seminars, speaking on a wide variety of teen treatment subjects, especially the difficulties of conquering teen substance 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 explaining teen initiation rites as something practiced by tribal societies. Ceremonies helped young people mark the difference between childhood years and adulthood. But more than just a ceremony, an initiation rite demarcates the shift from one state to another. Basically, it's symbolic of the death of childhood and the birth of adult years. Ceremonies of passages have to be unique and affirmative to leave familiar habits behind and learn brand-new habits.
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 ended with a common agreement that if formal adolescent rites of passages were introduced in our existing culture, it would make a massive change that would give young people a much greater understanding of their new adult roles and responsibilities.
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Lon Woodbury, the founder of L.A. Talk Radio show for people to at their convenience.
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