This book illustrates the powerful, life-changing Option Process Dialogue in action. With a caring and loving hand, Barry Neil Kaufman takes us on a very intimate journey with the young people he has helped. He brings us unflinchingly into moments of extreme crisis involving rape, questions of sexuality, a dying parent, divorce, the prison of drugs. Just as we think we're going to duck or turn away, we find ourselves swept away, side by side with Dawn, Angie, Jonathan and the others, awed by their lessons and drawn forward by their up-lifting experiences-as well as our own sense of growth.