Bret Stephenson: A Mile Wide and An Inch Deep: Modern Adolescent Discontent & America's Shallow Approach to Teens Futurehealth WinterBrain Plenary presentation by Bret Stephenson America invented the concept of modern adolescence, and by letting go of tried & true archetypal approaches, created the need for teen 'control': group homes, treatment centers, juvenile halls, medication and incarceration.

Bret Stephenson: Why 'Just Say No' Just Hasn't Worked: Teens and Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness (B) Futurehealth Workshop by Bret Stephenson Most adults misunderstand the archetypal drive for teens to experience altered states of consciousness. Raised in a culture permeated with legal and illegal drugs, teens gravitate to unhealthy risks due to the lack of healthy, ceremonial means to alter consciousness.