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Converting Losers into Winners
In the
San Fernando Valley **1 a new
approach
to reducing gang violence and
vandalism
is being implemented.
Instead of piling our collective blame,
guilt and shame onto struggling young men and threatening them
with jail, a group of private citizens is applying a new
approach to reducing youth-gang violence and vandalism. Instead of
fighting losers, the program
focuses on creating winners. Instead of
threats,
the program uses incentives. This
approach involves inviting teens to participate in a self-awareness program
that revolves around a self-help training technique called Theta-Healing
/ Theta Transformation. This approach
offers youths new ways of living, new ways of being, and new ways to
relate to their external world.
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A summary of the Process --
The first step involves instructing them
regarding the basic
rules
of how the universe functions. ' **2 They are taught perspectives on life that
are rarely accurately explained anywhere else.
They are then taught the essential techniques of
Theta Healing
/Theta-Transformation. ' **3 With these tools, participants are guided on a
step-by-step path of re-creating themselves to be anything they choose to be.
They are taught how to create
things, situations, and experiences that, for them,
were previously impossible.
Instead of
destruction,
the program focuses on
creation. Instead of treating symptoms, the program seeks,
finds, and resolves the root causes of problems. Instead of applying "more of the same" or doing "the
same thing harder," the program uses an approach and takes actions that have not
previously been applied to this
problem. Instead of spending a hundred or
so million dollars on a major, unproven project, (innovation) the program
is
spending only a few thousand dollars on tried and tested ways of making personal
transformations in small, doable increments (kaizen). ' Instead
of tapping the public treasury, the program is functioning on private
donations and on the assistance of people like you. To read about it
in detail, please go to the program
producer's
website: http://www.YouthGangs.info. '
Reference s:
**1 Los Angeles County,
California
**2 Regardless of your age, gender, religion, et cetera, you
are invited you to take this reality check for yourself.
**3 Other Basic Theta-Healing /Theta-Transformation seminars are
also available to anyone interested, regardless of age, gender, etc.
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