Joy and Anxiety Among Adolescents, Allan Hugh Cole, Jr. and Philip Browning Helsel – Video and Discussion Outline
Dr. Allan Hugh Cole, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Philip Browning Helsel discuss joy and anxiety among adolescents.
Questions for Discussion:
How can anxiety be reframed as being helpful, as a “marker that leads us to change”? What discernment needs to happen in order to determine this with our youth?
How can we claim our role as witnesses to what our youth are going through in their lives? What might it look like to withstand the storm with our young people, and delight in them at the same time?
How does Cole’s idea that joy does not require the absence of suffering sit with you? How might we help our youth find both meaning and joy that might come as a result of their suffering? (And how might that exercise teach us in the way we endure suffering?)