Young Adults at the Threshold (YAT)

For whom:

Objectives:

To provide time and space to explore and examine the transition into adulthood and the inner world of feelings. To gain deeper awareness and understanding of one’s self and one’s interfaces with the world, without shame and fear
To examine one’s assumptions and beliefs about the self and the world that one has carried from childhood and adolescence - what of these have been tested, confirmed, challenged and revised in the process of growing up
To become aware of one’s patterns of behaviour and process of making choices. This includes looking at one’s blind spots, defences and hidden potentials
To experience the world of one’s feelings and understand / integrate it with one’s thought and action
To experiment with new behaviors / expressions that may have hitherto been withheld, or denied
To build capability to learn through sharing (self disclosure) and reflection

How does this happen:

Learning is facilitated by encounters within the group
Facilitator creating safe conditions to promote self disclosure, dignity and mutual respect
Working with the ‘here and now’ data, individual and group patterns as they emerge

Expectations from the participant:

A willingness / readiness to inquire, question and explore
Willingness to share feelings, thoughts and experiences and act from the “here and now” context
Listening without making quick judgments

Some possible take aways for participants:

Ability to hold curiosity and compliance, adherence and experimentation, others’ expectations and one’s own dreams in balance
Ability to have a recalibrated perspective to act, take initiative, and relate with the family, peers, significant others, and institutions that one engages with
Discover inner resources to complement skills/ability, and a capacity to design action choices drawing from the lab explorations
Ability to empathise with others, and to value subjective human realities beyond “objective” data