Andrea,
Thanks for these tips! Any tips for working with perpertrators of
abuse?
Daphne


>>> Andrea Wilder <andreawilder at comcast.net> 9/5/2006 9:28:25 AM >>>

Colleagues--

Two tips for working with abused students (these are part of my own 
thinking on abuse).

1)	Find out what the student wants to achieve in her life, what
role 
she sees occupying, where living, people around her, kind of job, and 
so on.

2)	Then find out how  much this will cost to achieve, so the
student 
can put a number  of her dreams.

I have worked with these two ideas for many years.  I had to find  for

myself what I wanted, and then I had to put a money figure on it.

It  took me a LONG while to find the right people who could give me the

advice i needed to get my plans in shape--many years.  I seem to know 
many good hearted people who can't think their way out of a paper bag,

so it wasn't easy.

I remember doing one exercise with students at  their school--it used 
collage and pictures from magazines--which focused on the concrete.I 
made a collage for myself, thinking i was being helpful to the 
students,  maybe I was, let's hope, but I STILL REMEMBER the collage I

made for myself.  so this is a very important exercise.

Andrea

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