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Rainbows Adolescent Edition
Spectrum Spectrum Groups help teens share feelings and thoughts about their loss with others their own age. Conversations are kept confidential. Adolescents face many difficult obstacles as they begin to learn their place in the world. For many teens, one of the most distressing challenges can be changes that occur in their families through death, divorce, or other painful transitions. Young adults need a chance to express their feelings, positive and negative. Yet, they may be too unsure of themselves to take the risk. Like adults, they fear rejection or lack of understanding. Spectrum provides the opportunity for teens to be with others their age who are walking the same journey. Sensitive, caring, trained adults act as Facilitators who help teens put their feelings into words, work through their grief, build a stronger sense of self-esteem, and to begin to accept what has taken place. This program is available in interdenominational religious or secular versions. The Spectrum Adolescent Edition is available to registered sites and new sites working with our Registered Directors to help teens through their own grief journey. This curricula contains Coordinator Manuals, Facilitator Modules, Making Things Better interactive, personal Journals for the participants, and three discussion driven Large Group Activities (games) to help the participants express, accept, and understand their feelings about what is happening in their lives.
The Spectrum Making Things Better journals are interactive and encourage teens to use them as a scrapbook of their lives before their loss, during the present, and as they look toward the future. Revised adult volunteer materials are written to accompany the new journals and are filled with extra ideas and activities for the Facilitators to use. Three Large Group Activities (games) were developed to round out the curriculum and help the group leaders encourage the participants to really get their issues out in the open to be ready to face them and apply their own coping skills. Spectrum of Fears is a fast moving card game with cards depicting some of the fears these adolescents may be facing, as well as blank cards for the players to make showing their personal fears.
Every teen encounters obstacles in their changing lives, but those who are experiencing loss may have more complex obstacles that need careful evaluation before they can be overcome. Mountain Of Change gives the teens an opportunity to face those obstacles in a non-threatening atmosphere so they can together find the best way to "make it to the summit" and come out on top.
Feelings Toss is a game of self-discovery enabling participants to examine deeply their own Primary and Secondary feelings attached to the changing events in their families. For more information about Spectrum, contact Rainbows Headquarters Or find your local Registered Director listed under "Find Rainbows" on this website. |
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