Youth Crime
August 14, 2008 by Holst Group
Edward de Bono’s Message
I have recently had serious meetings both in London and Johannesburg with people concerned with youth crime.
There are two things which everyone needs. They are ’significance’ and ‘achievement’.
In today’s world the only way a youngster can get these is through crime. There is the significance of belonging to a gang or showing off to your peers. There is the immediate achievement of crime: stolen goods, graffiti, a broken window.
There is very little opportunity for positive achievement. Schoolwork is not enough. Sport is not enough. Learning to play tennis in the hope that one day you might win at Wimbledon is too remote. There is a need for achievement as immediate as that of crime.
In my next message I shall outline a project.
has anyone thought if integrating self-help life tools into training and the lives of youths who are not using their abilities for good but for crime? One of hte main emotional needs in a human beings life is significance – this is the effect these youths are gaining from using crime – they gain significance in their lives (albeit the wrong and negative way).
When showing them methods and tools – self-help therapeutic tools like EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) that give methods to help people relieve negative emotions along the way.
EFT when delivered within a training course for stress, anger management, conflict resolution, business goal setting and much more is an amazing technique and an amazing self-help tool
Yes; so is the case in India. I am a youth worker with the government and I know how the youth longs for personality expression and participation in the rural areas. Their provincial college or school education does not provide them enough opportunities for skill development, or mental development because all education here is geared on the pedagogy of knowledge. They are mostly in search of a significant status and a role within the family, in the neighbourhood and in the village. When they dont find that there, they look forward to the urban centres; when they dont find them there either, they try to get into participation. Whn they can find a godfather in politics, they become his “people”, when they donot find a politician they go for criminal syndicates. Strong craving for a role in participation and role enactment lead them to find an opportunity anywhere they would get that.
regards.
K.l.khanna
Yes; so is the case in India. I am a youth worker with the government and I know how the youth longs for personality expression and participation in the rural areas. Their provincial college or school education does not provide them enough opportunities for skill development, or mental development because all education here is geared on the pedagogy of knowledge. They are mostly in search of a significant status and a role within the family, in the neighbourhood and in the village. When they dont find that there, they look forward to the urban centres; when they dont find them there either, they try to get into participation. Whn they can find a godfather in politics, they become his “people”, when they donot find a politician they go for criminal syndicates. Strong craving for a role in participation and role enactment lead them to find an opportunity anywhere they would get that.
regards.
K.l.khanna