into the wild: connect with teens where they live
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Adolescents live in the wild; a place that is set apart from the rest of the world. It is this unpredictable, often inhospitable land we must enter and explore if we are to make a positive difference in the lives of adolescents. Practice C.P.R. to join with teens:1. CRYSTALLIZE your message— Sharpen your focus to the essentials2. PERSONALIZE your teaching methods— Increase relevance and meaning for teens as they take ownership3. RELATIONALIZE your approach and build trust with students— See teens connect with your message as they connect with the messenger….TRANSCRIPT
Andrew F. Robinson
Into the WildThe path to personalized prevention
prevention with connection
www.teenpreventiontraining.com
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THE BURDEN
“The most intact, undisturbed wild natural areas left on our planet – those last truly wild places that humans do not control and have not developed with roads, pipelines or other industrial infrastructure.”The WILD Foundation
What does it look like for you to truly enter the wild with teens?What holds you back?
Oh, oh, oh!
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height!
Let's go fly a kite and send it soaring
Up through the atmosphere
Up where the air is clear
Oh, let's go fly a kite!
THE 3 STEPS TO PERSONALIZED PREVENTION
C.P.R.
1st STEP: CRYSTALLIZE
Good information comes in small
packages.
information is...INEFFECTIVE
“It’s sort of unfair to expect them to have adult levels of organizational skills or decision making before their brain is finished being built.”Jay Giedd, Neuroscientist
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”Albert Einstein
information is...IMPERSONAL
Who changed you?
Disneyland is a “mythical land. And now it’s this maybe land. And after this it’s going to be this real place.”
Abstract (mythical)
Concrete(real)
information is...BORING
“There are very few people who do not become more interesting when they stop talking.”Mary Lowry
In what ways can you experience the Burden of Content?How might you crystallize your content?
2nd STEP: PERSONALIZE
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Yikes!
This outfit doesn’t
fit anymore.
3rd STEP: RELATIONALIZE
“Nobody ever got a single truth without talking nonsense fourteen times first. Maybe even a hundred and fourteen. That’s all right in its own way. We don’t even know how to talk nonsense intelligently, though!” Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
BRING LESS
ACCOMPLISH MORESAY LESS
DO LESS
CAN THIS BE?
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“Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.” Sir Ken RobinsonOut of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative
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What is one practical thing you want to do differently?
Andrew F. Robinson
Into the WildThe path to personalized prevention