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Subject: Re: It's all about the chicks
Date: 1999/02/08
From: stpjane@aol.com (StPJane)
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Hi Jack,
         Thanks for your interest.   I will be working with a group of
approximately 40 to 50 inner city, at-risk Hispanic girls, ages 12 - 16.  
After some discussion about the contexts of adolescence, i.e. families, peer
groups, school, and the adolescent workplace, and the usual travails of that
age (remember? identity, autonomy, emotional and sexual intimacy, achievement, 
psychosocial adjustments, and the particular problems of their neighborhood,
the gangs, the drugs, the poverty), each girl will choose one problem she
wishes to work out.   She will make a puppet to personify that problem, and
then I will guide her in conversations with her problem.  She will be her own
voice and the voice of the problem (the puppet).   Each girl  will also make a
mask to wear when speaking to their puppet/problem. This frees them from having
to be bound by the reality of their own identity and then, through the alter
ego, the girl comes to know many things about herself and about her problem.  
This is really an oversimplified account of what I will be doing, but you get
the idea.   I have also done this with adults.  I have found that the
psychology of many adults responds well to adolescent psychology.  
Hmmmmm.....well, if it works, do it......
Saint Jane 
>
>:: Well, my friends, perhaps it's time to tell you all something.   About six
>:: months ago, I wrote a Federal grant to try to get funds for an art therapy
>:: project with inner city Hispanic teenaged girls.   I called the project,
>:: "Chicks on the Wire."   Guess what?   I got the grant and am now in
 startup.  
>:: If anyone goes to Mt. Baldy, would you please tell Leonard.....
>:: Saint Jane
>
>Tell us more about what you are going to do.
>
>Jack