Content
Foreword: Understanding At-Risk Youth
Preface
Introduction
Chatpter 1: How Storytelling Works for Healing At-Risk Youth
Metaphor
Character Events
Commonality of Subject
Unlocking the Power of Story
Discovering Goldilocks
Chapter 3: Designing Sessions
Chapter 4: Hansel and Gretel: Sample Session
Openings
Closings
Rites of Passage
Initiation into the Adult Circle
Mommy and Me: A Curriculum for Teens with Toddlers
Session 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
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 Eight: Last Session, Rite of Passagge Ceremony
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 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 Timeline
Session Three: Reflecting the Hero, Defininig the Villain
Session Four: Defining the Other Players
Session Five: The Hero's Mentor and Tools
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