Peak Experience Groups For Prevention Of Teenage Drug Abuse

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FOR TEENAGERS WHO ARE THINKING ABOUT USING CHEMICALS OR DRUGS TO TURN ON. STOP.

TURN ON AND TUNE IN WITHOUT CHEMICALS OR DRUGS IN BODY – MIND – SPIRIT PEAK EXPERIENCE GROUPS;

Limited to a maximum of 8 in a group. These experimental small groups are conducted by Dr. Sheldon M. Cohen, Ph.D., a former clinical director of a community mental health center. Dr. Sheldon has published numerous articles in professional journals. His current website, www.realworldnewworld.com, deals with how to reduce human destructiveness to self and others (Terrorism), religion, social change, and an introduction to a “Study People, Study Your Life” program.

A sample of the kinds of experiences Teens will have in the Peak Experience Group:

Þ Study their own life beginning with their first memory. Exchange life story studies with others.

Þ Integrate traditional values in a search for meanings and rituals for their life. Create verbal and non-verbal Mantras.

Þ Become more aware of their Here-and-Now Experiences. Interchange words and actions, role reversals, rehearsal dialogues with significant others.

Þ Tap and develop their special interests, abilities, talents, fantasies, dreams, and learn how to use these to contribute their individuality and uniqueness.

Þ Work with their bodies through meditative movement (like Tai Chi, Hula Hula, Yoga and Kabuki), perceptive touch, biofeedback, sensitivity training exercises and out of body experiences.

Þ Free Speak about anything, at any time, in any way, without any restrictions. Only violence and the use of chemicals and drugs are not permitted.

Þ Deal with personal and social conflicting values, conflicting directions, double bind messages and meanings. For example, the mass media floods our Teens with explicit sexual events and semi-nude sexual role models. At the same time, Teens sharing their individual sexual needs remain a private matter left to chance happening. At the last Republican National Presidential Convention for President Bush, his daughter uttered a truth from the podium of the convention before a national TV audience when she revealed: Sex is something our parents do, but we are not supposed to know or talk about it. It summarizes our adult society relation to Teens.

Þ In the Peak Experience Group, Teens will become more aware of the historic social times and the particular social situations in which they live. They will develop strategies to cope or try to change these for the better.
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