A Former College Counselor Comes Out Of The Closet About ‘Indigo’
Hollywood Launch of Indigo Documentary Opens a Door Locked Twenty-Five Years Ago for a Single Mom and Successful Pharmaceutical Consultant.
Freehold, NJ (PRWEB) January 27, 2006
This weekend the world Premier of The Ingigo Evolution (www. theindigoevolution. com) simultaneously marks the evolution of a New Jersey Mom’s journey back to the college campus after twenty-five years of self-imposed exile.
Janet Werner, a single Mom of a 12-year-old son, successful consultant to New Jersey’s pharmaceuticals and a former Rutgers University counselor speaks up on why the message, not the label, of ‘Indigo’ is so important.
“The concept of Indigo is that the new generation of youth see what we don’t. Just as the 60’s generation heralded social justice, the kids today desire full equality of mind, body and spirit. Not just the talking about an integration, but demanding action toward nothing less,” says Ms. Werner.
According to P. M. H. Atwater, author of Beyond the Indigo Children, they are unusually intelligent (even if they are flunking in school and can't spell), gifted entrepreneurs, exceptionally creativity, intuitive, have strong spatial reasoning skills (both sexes) and are volunteer-minded and group-oriented.
Ms. Werner continues, “Atwater calls them ‘quick-click kids’ who expect things to come to them with little waiting for slow outmoded systems to catch up. This is why the topic is so important.”
She contends that when youth get frustrated and blocked in their desire to connect and communicate within the maze of our traditional thinking, they withdraw and become depressed. Our response as adults is often to drug, suppress and label them as our quick fix.
Atwater notes this generation contends with a dizzying array of learning disorders that have confounded psychologists and counselors. College campuses have seen a drastic increase in issues relating to student mental health in the past decade. The American College Health Association 2004 survey noted psychiatric medications rose 24.5% in 2003-2004 from 17% in 2000, and just 9% in 1994.
In 2004 The New York Times quoted Dr. Mark Harris, University of Iowa, saying his counseling center saw 20% more students in September of 2004 than 2003, “The worst fall for emergencies in two decades,” stated Dr. Harris.
Mr. Scott Fritz of Red Bank, New Jersey, sees the issue even more drastically from the point of view of a parent who lost his child, Stephanie, to suicide two years ago. “Suicide is the third leading cause of death for those under age 24. In New Jersey alone we lost 74 kids in 2004. These deaths significantly affected the lives of thousands in our communities.”
Two weeks ago, Mr. Fritz and his co-advocate Don Quigley in partnership with Senator Ellen Karcher realized the signing by former Governor Codey of the New Jersey Suicide Prevention Law, which mandates formal teacher training on suicide prevention in secondary schools.
Gregory Roberts Ed. S., Executive Director American College Personnel Association (ACPA) in Washington DC, approached Ms. Werner and asked her, “How do we address the mental, emotional, physical, social and spiritual health of our college students?” He noted he is finding a thirst for spirituality from students.
“Adults interpret this acute intuition combined with an almost built-in resistance to authority as disruptive. But we could be describing the best & the brightest from the 60’s & 70’s – our baby boomer mavericks who I worked extensively with in the corporations,” asserts Ms. Werner.
“Our kids today don’t want to be labeled, they don’t want to talk about their talents – they want to do something, they have no tolerance for our discussions of labels. I know because in 1979 I was labeled and medicated myself,” shares Ms. Werner. “Indigo after all is just a color. Let’s rethink how we think in our conversations. Lets join with them to change the status quo and open up conversations using The Indigo Evolution’s message. It is unacceptable that kids seek suicide as the solution.”
As the creator of Rethinking How We Think(sm), Ms. Werner is organizing an outreach tour to college & university campuses starting with The College of New Jersey and Rutgers University. She will introduce her breakthrough executive thinking tool to the campus community. The toolbox reduces stress & simplifies communication so that each individual, honored with respect and dignity, co-creates empowering actions that benefit all involved.
For more information, contact Mike Hayden, HarkNews at 609-945-4970 or www. RethinkingHowWeThink. com for more info.
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