You started watching them hold on to the edge of the pool, then made sure they stuck to the shallow end until they could handle deeper water.
Why abruptly toss them in the middle of the ocean now?
Watching your child walking to receive their college diploma should not feel like watching them walk the plank.
For a fraction of what you have been paying up until this point, Traverse Groups will give your recent graduate the support, guidance, care and fortitude they need to launch successfully, safely and mindfully into the future they want for themselves. Traverse Groups gives recent graduates access to a supportive group of peers at the same phase of life, a licensed mental health professional skilled at running groups and the space they crucially need to reflect on their lives and express themselves. Managing our internal experience requires space for reflection and expression, creating that space requires the presence of other interested people. In Traverse Groups emerging adults rely on each other as they figure out how to rely on themselves.
Traverse Groups will help your recent graduate learn the difference between healthy and unhealthy dependence, how to make progress with intention and create the conditions they need, internally and externally, to become useful and effective adults who like their lives. The most important test they will face moving forward, won’t be graded, it will be a test of who they are, not what they know. In Traverse Groups recent graduates help each other figure out their personal definitions of living well and collectively discover how each of them can do it. No one should try to shield them from the difficulties they must face, but Traverse Groups will make sure that other well intended, well qualified people are at hand to help them make productive use of their struggles.