By Richard Gold
This publication describes a particular application for instructing and mentoring expressive writing via at-risk youth—a software that could generate transformative switch within the kids, and generate major new satisfactions for you. while teenagers write in my opinion and creatively, it is helping them to beat demanding situations of their lives. They think larger, imagine extra truly, are extra self-confident, and are higher capable of relate to others, together with their helpers. This own inventive method is enriching and enlivening for everybody. It brings emotional readability and desiring to all people. It brings closeness, as well as studying and growth.Welcome to the Pongo youngster Writing Method.
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We can feel it through the soles of our feet, when we attend to it, and it shakes us. Being Open to the World of Emotion For young people in distress—young people who have suffered a variety of childhood traumas—they are often bound up by their difficult emotions: ■ They are confused and have a hard time remembering or understanding what happened to them. indb 31 1/6/14 8:12 AM 32 ■ ■ ■ ■ CHAPTER 3 They often experience strong and unattributed emotional consequences, such as rage or anxiety or numbness, that they may not feel able to control.
It’s very common for Pongo’s authors to dedicate their poems in this way, without irony or criticism. For Cherie, she was not only denied an essential validation of her life when her father walked out, but she experienced this denial in the context of an enduring love for the person who abandoned her. A third aspect of trauma that Cherie’s poem illustrates is her damaged view of herself. ” She felt defective, and she felt deserving of, and even responsible for, the terrible things that have happened to her.
For people who write poetry after trauma, the act of writing and sharing poetry with a mentor provides a safe experience where trust can be established and a positive relationship can be built. These specific benefits of writing poetry after trauma are contained within the benefits of writing poetry in general, where poetry provides opportunities for being heard, gaining insight, building strengths, and deepening relationships. ” And So We Begin Teachers and counselors encounter experiences of terrible hurt in their work with youth (and perhaps in their own lives).