ABSTRACT
Development Exercise: Finding your voice in the face of fear This development will support the teenager who believes that saying one of these things in reality would improve one of their relationships and yet they feel too frightened to say it. Ask them to draw what they fear would happen if they said it. Then ask them what sort of support they would need to be able to find their voice. It may be appropriate to offer to facilitate the parent-teenager conversation yourself. If appropriate, ask the teenager to talk about times in their life when they did find their voice, when what they had to say was both heard and respected. What did it feel like? Ask them to find a mental image to anchor that instance of assertiveness and courage firmly in their mind.
