Four necessary lenses for understanding young people & three key truths that will change the way we develop them
Difficult, yet inevitable, the period after childhood and before adulthood is a critical one. All at once, a person experiences individuation (the process of understanding that they have a unique identity, outside of the family structure), physical maturation, and life transition. As they lay their Hot Wheels and doll clothes aside, they leave behind the ways of kid-hood and begin asking questions like, "Who am I? What am I made for? What do I believe and care about?" Though bumbly and uncomfortable, adolescence is an irrecoverable moment in time where futures form, identity emerges, and action takes place. Without question, those who get to walk alongside young people in their adolescence are those who get in on critical perspectives, unique innovations, and the formation of the next generation of leaders.
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