Youth Program explained

Palladium Private Youth program– why is it needed?
If a parent is faced with an issue of a teenager or young adult exhibiting emotional symptoms and harmful behaviour, where do they go for real long lasting help? Where their youth can learn life lessons that they will still be carrying with them their entire life?  School facilities and government counseling services are often overwhelmed and inadequate for what is needed. The issues often start  as anger or belligerence, lack of respect for others or self, social inadequacy, eating disorders, binges drinking and or drug experimentation- often coupled with anxiety and or depression. Goals are hard to start and rarely finished. What we know is that the youth does not “know the way out” as they cannot identify the cause of the problem.

 ”when faced with situations for the first time it is natural to stumble as we learn. When a  youth stumbles their self worth is so easily challenged due to its very newness conceptually. What they need is a workable philosophy that can be applied regardless of the newness of the situations. One that can be applied to any situation to create a lesson from the situation, leaving their self worth intact. The Fountainhead Method supplies just that. ”Wayne Parrot Hon Chairman Anti Depression Association of Australia

Why do traditional methods perform so poorly with youth stress?
Traditional western culture and media compound the problems of troubled youth. They incorrectly learn to measure their self worth through their environment. By what they look like, what they achieve and what they own. They have the pressure of fully achieving their potential – an imagined measurement (often someone else-not theirs) and within an imagined time frame. If they are not  achieving  this “potential” at the correct rate, the young person labels themselves as a failure, becomes angry and depressed and starts shutting down thinking themselves inadequate and their life unfixable. The next stage may be alcohol or drug use to deal with the emotional pain and low sense of worth  and can of course lead to suicidal (4) thoughts.

Psychotherapy spends a lot of therapy time searching for individual triggers and the history of these triggers that may not even exist, as the problem is a faulty reality perception and self worth model. Psychoanalysis spreads its talk therapy out, often over a number of years and relies often on medication to help manage the symptoms; again not the cause and opening the door for addiction or faulty brain development. The youth may also start collecting labels such as add, adhd, borderline personality disorder, clinical depression or anxiety or eating issues reinforcing the belief that they are broken or damaged.

“Now I know how to measure my self esteem properly, The pressure is gone, I am now free to fail and learn from it, the whole world has opened for me and the fear of failure is gone thanks for my life back its just awesome”

Reagan  Lipan, 16 years old – November 2010

Why Palladium Private does work to turn youth issues around
At Palladium we believe that to remedy the situation long term a few crucial items must be present. The young person needs to understand how to correctly measure their self worth. They must learn to understand stress fully and then how to process events in their life to reduce and eliminate it , The youth will be blame focused, normally blaming parents or self; and this  way of thinking must be un-done. Learning from events in life is crucial information for gaining character and experience. No one would ever swap the lessons they have learned in life. If a goal attempted is not achieved in the way imagined a lesson must be learned and a persons self worth should not be jeopardized.

“If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” Thomas Edison

• We only use Fountainhead Method ™, trained life coaches.  The Fountainhead Method®  developed here onsite is an educational technique that examines the way a human being suffering a stress based illness, such as depression or anxiety, is thinking and processing the events of their life. This is based on the core belief structures they mainly developed at an early age and how the processing of reality through these core belief structures or as we call them “lenses” causes unwanted behaviour and emotional symptoms. It unpacks where a person learnt their views on life as well as how they measure their self-worth. The information learnt in this process takes the sufferer’s incorrect or incomplete beliefs, which are based on misinterpretations of the past, and re-educates them to look at the same past experiences objectively and with the goal to understand, learn and grow from them which changes the underlying cause of their unwanted behaviour and emotions long term. The Fountainhead method is presently being used by 400 practitioners including psychologists and doctors throughout Australia.

• Journey Therapy supports it. Developed originally by American author Brandon bays similar to time line therapy but different in that the focuses is not only to identify your patterns of behavior and its origin-but to change the pattern then and there. Perhaps emotional clearing would be a simple way to express the process in which you are guided through. Your Journey Therapist will equip you with the tools to understand and release limitations. Be it anger, grief, anxiety, fear, or it could be as simple as a sense that there is something more you could be achieving for yourself and your life. No matter how deep the issue or how much you have struggled with it, there is always the possibility you can become powerful, free and fully self expressed. The purpose of Journey therapy is to  get to the  true root or cause of the issue, finding resolve and allowing you to live your life fully-free and empowered to create new possibilities.Many people say this was one of  the best parts of their program.

• It is underpinned by Mindfulness training which has existed for millennia but has only been explained scientifically in the last twenty years.  “Mindfulness produces positive effects on psychological well-being that extend beyond the time the individual is practicing it. Over the last three decades mindfulness  practices have been increasingly incorporated into programs, to take advantage of these benefits. A large body of research has established the effectiveness of these mindfulness-based interventions in reducing symptoms of a number of disorders, including anxiety , depression , substance abuse , eating disorders , and chronic pain , as well as improving well-being and quality of life. Mindfulness  involves the development of awareness of present-moment experience with a compassionate, non- judgmental stance .It has been suggested that this process is associated with a perceptual shift, in which one’s thoughts and feelings are recognized as events occurring in the broader field of awareness”    Harvard Medical school Boston MA 2010

• A highly nutritious organic diet to give the body the essential components it needs. This is combined with gentle exercise and massage to assist the body to feel better. we have a multitude of therapies to choose from if needed for physical change but long term permanent change is always done with the first three components.

“I am 100% worthy of being here all the time. Four weeks ago I arrived suicidal. I could not have imagined saying that let alone believing it as true. You have saved my life”.
Kurt Crompton, 17 years old – Sept 2009

The pressure of always achieving to satisfy self worth is exhausting, and if imagined goals are not achieved rather than learning from the experience and building character the person will label themselves a failure and shut down spiraling into depression , believing their life is ruined and they are worthless. Suicide when once “never considered option” now is contemplated in an effort to save the remaining aspects of self worth.

“No matter what I did it was never enough, I was always achieving always moving forward, if things did not work out the way I imagined them I would punish myself as weak and worthless. I did not know any different. Now when I achieve a goal I can actually enjoy it”.

Maria Pellengi, 22 year of age-  Jan 2011.

What the experts say The Anti Depression Association of Australia (ADAA); recently interviewed author Michelle Mark who confirms this new approach to treatment for today’s youth: “When you are experiencing this type of behavior , the real work needed to stabilise the young person for the long term is not done by changing how they  feel or shielding them from life. This is a temporary solution at best. The real work is done by understanding and changing the root cause of their  emotional response. Youth suffering from stress related issues, (and this is at the core of anorexia, bulimia, anxiety and suicidal thoughts) must be convinced that the measurement they are using is undeveloped or  incorrect and that their worth is not contingent on what they do or do not achieve. The Fountainhead Method™ shows you how to do this”.Its not about having less tough lessons in life, it is about having the tools and skills to deal with them effectively.

“I used to reject compliments, they didn’t match the way I thought of myself. Now I accept them gladly and am glad to be alive. I have put on 15 kg in a year and feel at a healthy weight for the first time since I was 12. The future doesn’t scare me anymore” Genevieve  Brewitt, age 16 years – Jan  2009

Suggested Length of Program
The programs length can vary from 1-3 months.

Please go to Program and pricing to see a breakdown of a program.