Patrick Barrasso, Founder of In Balance Continuum of Care, Az, and Molly McGinn, Learning Specialist and Founder of Bloomtree Learning Communities and Treehouse Learning Community, Az. discussed adolescent rites of passage with host Lon Woodbury on L.A. Talk Radio. Lon Woodbury is the owner and founder of Woodbury Reports, Inc. He has worked with families and struggling teens since 1984 and is the host of Parent Choices for Struggling Teens.
About the Guests
Patrick Barrasso is the founder and Executive Director of In Balance Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program, and the In Balance Ranch Academy. He is a psychotherapist with over 25 years of extensive training and experience in adolescent and adult substance abuse and mental health treatment. He has presented at the U.S. Journal Training National conferences, and the FACES, Family and Addiction Conferences and Educational Seminars on a variety of adolescent treatment topics including the challenges of overcoming the culture of adolescent substance abuse.
Dr. Molly McGinn is a learning specialist who has owned her own consultancy for 17 years. She designs and facilitates leadership and management skills training programs for global companies. Dr. McGinn holds a MA and Ph.D. from UCLA in Cultural Anthropology. She taught at the Academy of Science in Sichuan Province in China for two years as well as in Tibet after the Chinese takeover. She 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 pointed out that there were three stages. The first stage marked separation, a giving up the old lifestyle. The second stage marked crossing a threshold, a transition period of considerable confusion. Finally, the third stage marked incorporation, a time when the new maturation was being welcomed.
Molly explained ceremonies of initiation from her standpoint as an anthropologist. She highlighted the role of mentors to assist youth to experience the initiation rites. Because contemporary culture usually did not have seniors to initiate youths, youth often tended to launch 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 founder and Executive Director of In Balance Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program, and the In Balance Ranch Academy. He is a psychotherapist with over 25 years of extensive training and experience in adolescent and adult substance abuse and mental health treatment. He has presented at the U.S. Journal Training National conferences, and the FACES, Family and Addiction Conferences and Educational Seminars on a variety of adolescent treatment topics including the challenges of overcoming the culture of adolescent substance abuse.
Dr. Molly McGinn is a learning specialist who has owned her own consultancy for 17 years. She designs and facilitates leadership and management skills training programs for global companies. Dr. McGinn holds a MA and Ph.D. from UCLA in Cultural Anthropology. She taught at the Academy of Science in Sichuan Province in China for two years as well as in Tibet after the Chinese takeover. She 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 pointed out that there were three stages. The first stage marked separation, a giving up the old lifestyle. The second stage marked crossing a threshold, a transition period of considerable confusion. Finally, the third stage marked incorporation, a time when the new maturation was being welcomed.
Molly explained ceremonies of initiation from her standpoint as an anthropologist. She highlighted the role of mentors to assist youth to experience the initiation rites. Because contemporary culture usually did not have seniors to initiate youths, youth often tended to launch 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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