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 essentials 2. PERSONALIZE your teaching methods — Increase relevance and meaning for teens as they take ownership 3. RELATIONALIZE your approach and build trust with students — See teens connect with your message as they connect with the messenger….

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2. prevention with connection

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8. 1. Name 2. Vocation 3. Avocation 4. Common

10. THE BURDEN

11. “ 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

17. What does it look like for you to truly enter the wild with teens? What holds you back?

19. 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!

20. THE 3 STEPS TO PERSONALIZED PREVENTION

21. C.P.R.

22. 1st STEP: CRYSTALLIZE

30. Good information comes in small packages.

31. information is... INEFFECTIVE

33. “ 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

34. “ Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Albert Einstein

35. information is... IMPERSONAL

36. Who changed you?

37. Disneyland is a “ mythical land. And now it’s this maybe land. And after this it’s going to be this real place.”

38. Abstract (mythical) Concrete (real)

39. information is... BORING

40. “ There are very few people who do not become more interesting when they stop talking.” Mary Lowry

43. In what ways can you experience the Burden of Content ? How might you crystallize your content?

44. 2nd STEP: PERSONALIZE

47. I. Objective A. 1.

49. Yikes! This outfit doesn’t fit anymore.

50. 3rd STEP: RELATIONALIZE

53. “ 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

54. BRING LESS ACCOMPLISH MORE SAY LESS DO LESS CAN THIS BE? = + +

57. “ Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.” Sir Ken Robinson Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative

58. Into

59. What is one practical thing you want to do differently?

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