Designing Rituals and Talismans with System Involved Youth for Supporting Transitions out of Pandemic Life

Shoshana Phoenixx

Training Description

For many of us, 2020 was a year of unprecedented personal challenges. Some of those experiences were traumatizing. Others were strengthening and rewarding. But as the pandemic has separated us from our friends, loved ones and community services, it has also separated us from the rituals we use to mark and honor important life events. This experience gives us newly deepened insights into the challenges of system involved youth. The aim of this training is to develop new ways to process the challenges faced, acknowledge the impacts they have, and connect with the personal growth they have enabled for system involved youth and families and those who support them.

Learning Objective

• Learn about the cultural and spiritual place, significance and function of rituals and talismans

• Explore how different types of rituals can be used to help system involved youth honor, mark and move forward from significant…