Dancing at the crossroads : a guide for practitioners in at-risk youth programs / Lorna MacDonald Czarnota ; with collaborations by Diana Koch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Czarnota, Lorna MacDonald, author.

Contributor:

Koch, Diana, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social work with youth.

Dance therapy.

At-risk youth--Counseling of.

At-risk youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Marion, Michigan : Parkhurst Brothers Publishers, 2014.

Summary:

An anthology of traditional and original stories with commentary for using the stories to help troubled teens in need of character formation and re-formation. Also for use in general classrooms and youth activities to undergird healthy character formation in the pre-teen and teen years.Mentoring teens can be a wild dance.

Contents:

Content; Foreword: Understanding At-Risk Youth; Preface; Introduction; Chatpter 1: How Storytelling Works for Healing At-Risk Youth; Chapter 2: Understanding How Story Heals; Metaphor; Character Events; Commonality of Subject; Unlocking the Power of Story; Discovering Goldilocks; Chapter 3: Designing Sessions; Chapter 4: Hansel and Gretel: Sample Session; Chapter 5: Rituals & Coming of Age Ceremonies; Openings; Closings; Rites of Passage; Initiation into the Adult Circle; Chapter 6: Crossroads Program Curriculums; Mommy and Me: A Curriculum for Teens with Toddlers

Session I: Getting to Know YouSession II: Continue Session I and Begin Story Work; Session III: Storytelling Basics; Session IV: Continued Storytelling Basics; Session V: Reasons for Storytelling; Session VI and VII; Session VIII; Bibliography for Mommy and Me; Stories of Choice and Empowerment; Session One: Trust Building; Session Two: Pre Evaluation and Discussion of Metaphor; Session Three: Game ""The Battle of Evermore""; Session Four: Begin Story Development; Session Five: Share our Stories; Session Six & Seven: Story and/with Art Activity

Session Eight: Last Session, Rite of Passagge CeremonyMy Story/My Poem: A Club for Youth Voices; Session One: Introduction and Trust Building; Session Two: Where Stories and Poems Come From; Session Three: How are Poems and Stories Different or Alike?; Session Four: Putting our Own Events Into Poem and Story; Session Five: Developing our Stories; Session Six: A Youth-Driven Session; Session Seven: The Power of Imagination: Wearing the Mask; Session Eight: Celebrate the Final Session With Stories, Poems, Masks, and Food; HeroQuest: The Hero's Journey; Session One: Introduction

Session Two: A Hero's TimelineSession Three: Reflecting the Hero, Defininig the Villain; Session Four: Defining the Other Players; Session Five: The Hero's Mentor and Tools; Session Six: Celebration; Additional HeroQuest Sessions; Chapter 7: Conclusion; Appendix I: Archetypes; Appendix II: Archetype Worksheets; Appendix III: Youth Issues and Story List; Appendix IV: Examples of Questionnaires and Personal Survey Tools; Appendix V: Materials Resource List; Appendix VI: Activities List with Materials; Appendix VII: Hansel and Gretel: The Full Experimental Conversation; Bibliography; Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 30, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-62491-010-6

OCLC:

945135645