Comments for Pacific Quest - Wilderness Therapy Program http://www.pacificquest.org Wilderness Therapy, Wilderness Program Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:11:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Comment on Educational Consultants by Wilderness consultants | Jimrunsdorf http://www.pacificquest.org/admissions/professionals/educational-consultants/#comment-57 Wilderness consultants | Jimrunsdorf Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:11:07 +0000 http://www.pacificquest.org/?page_id=146#comment-57 [...] Educational Consultants | Pacific Quest – Wilderness Therapy ProgramNov 29, 2011 … Educational Consultants Creating a powerful and rewarding experience is only effective if it is part of a long-term, progressive plan including … [...] [...] Educational Consultants | Pacific Quest – Wilderness Therapy ProgramNov 29, 2011 … Educational Consultants Creating a powerful and rewarding experience is only effective if it is part of a long-term, progressive plan including … [...]

]]> Comment on “This I Believe” by Kelsi http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/12/this-i-believe/#comment-54 Kelsi Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:49:51 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=513#comment-54 Congratulations, Alex, on your achievements! It's really great to get to hear your story and to see how well you've done. Best of luck with college...how awesome to win that merit scholarship! Congratulations, Alex, on your achievements!
It’s really great to get to hear your story and to see how well you’ve done. Best of luck with college…how awesome to win that merit scholarship!

]]> Comment on “This I Believe” by Alex http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/12/this-i-believe/#comment-53 Alex Thu, 21 Apr 2011 03:26:32 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=513#comment-53 I'm the girl that wrote/gave this speech. I just wanted to say thank you to PQ for everything they helped me do. I never would have been able to do it without them. I love everyone there so much and am so thankful for everyone there. Especially to Mary Beth - you were my savior. Thank you so much for everything. Again, thank you all. You helped change my life! I’m the girl that wrote/gave this speech. I just wanted to say thank you to PQ for everything they helped me do. I never would have been able to do it without them. I love everyone there so much and am so thankful for everyone there. Especially to Mary Beth – you were my savior. Thank you so much for everything.
Again, thank you all. You helped change my life!

]]> Comment on Sustainable Growth: A Parent’s Journey by Mike Sullivan http://www.pacificquest.org/2011/04/sustainable-growth-a-parent%e2%80%99s-journey/#comment-55 Mike Sullivan Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:27:58 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=547#comment-55 Thank you so much for sharing about your experience learning and engaging in "sustainable growth." I really like how you joined with your son through the gardening metaphors. Further, it is really powerful and inspiring to hear how you shifted your patterns as a parent to help support a healthier family environment. Very inspirational to all!!! Thank you so much for sharing about your experience learning and engaging in “sustainable growth.” I really like how you joined with your son through the gardening metaphors. Further, it is really powerful and inspiring to hear how you shifted your patterns as a parent to help support a healthier family environment. Very inspirational to all!!!

]]> Comment on “This I Believe” by Eric Schurr http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/12/this-i-believe/#comment-52 Eric Schurr Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:16:48 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=513#comment-52 The story about Alex, our daughter, gets even better. She was recently awarded a merit scholarship from the college that she was accepted into a few months ago. This scholarship was based entirely on academics, achievements, and personal qualities -- NOT financial aid. She earned it! A key part of the content that she wrote for her essays and what she talked about in her interviews was her experienced at PQ. She speaks about it with pride. Thanks again to PQ for helping turn her life around! The story about Alex, our daughter, gets even better. She was recently awarded a merit scholarship from the college that she was accepted into a few months ago. This scholarship was based entirely on academics, achievements, and personal qualities — NOT financial aid. She earned it! A key part of the content that she wrote for her essays and what she talked about in her interviews was her experienced at PQ. She speaks about it with pride.

Thanks again to PQ for helping turn her life around!

]]> Comment on “This I Believe” by Eric http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/12/this-i-believe/#comment-51 Eric Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:14:16 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=513#comment-51 Mary Beth, we owe much of what Alex has become to you and the others at PQ. Your work has re-routed a young girl's life from potential disaster to a positive future. God bless you. Mary Beth,
we owe much of what Alex has become to you and the others at PQ. Your work has re-routed a young girl’s life from potential disaster to a positive future. God bless you.

]]> Comment on “This I Believe” by Mary Beth http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/12/this-i-believe/#comment-50 Mary Beth Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:31:03 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=513#comment-50 Alex is an amazing young lady! Eric, thanks so much for sharing! Love to you both! Alex is an amazing young lady! Eric, thanks so much for sharing! Love to you both!

]]> Comment on “This I Believe” by Eric http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/12/this-i-believe/#comment-49 Eric Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:11:32 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=513#comment-49 Good luck with your son. I hope his experience was as positive as ours. Our daughter's speech is posted her for all to read in the hopes it will help others like your son. Good luck with your son. I hope his experience was as positive as ours. Our daughter’s speech is posted her for all to read in the hopes it will help others like your son.

]]> Comment on “This I Believe” by Mark Erskine http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/12/this-i-believe/#comment-48 Mark Erskine Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:00:44 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=513#comment-48 Thanks for sharing. Our son is there now. He's about to transition out to a longer term program. I bet it would benefit him, and other kids there, to see her speech when the time is right. Good for you Eric. And especially good for your daughter! Thanks for sharing. Our son is there now. He’s about to transition out to a longer term program. I bet it would benefit him, and other kids there, to see her speech when the time is right.

Good for you Eric. And especially good for your daughter!

]]> Comment on “This I Believe” by Eric http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/12/this-i-believe/#comment-47 Eric Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:26:29 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=513#comment-47 I am the father of the girl who wrote this speech, and I want to add a few more thoughts. PQ changed my daughter's life -- for the better and in a permanent and profound way. Before she went to PQ, she was on a scary trajectory: poor grades, endless family fighting, a trip to the police station, etc. After spending 10 weeks at PQ, she started at a new school and has gotten honors or high honors every semester. She recently got accepted to her first-choice college. She doesn't fight with us any more than a typical teenager does. She has a new perspective and a "new story." Her life is pointed in a positive direction. Looking back over the last few years, I believe there were two turning points in her life: the first was attending PQ. The second was giving her speech to 400 peers and faculty. At that moment she took full ownership for her past and present. She delivered her very emotional story with remarkable poise and confidence. She is not ashamed of where she has been, and she is proud of where she is. We are, too. She deserves all the credit for her turnaround. It was her decision and her actions that made it happen. It was hard work, and she did it. She recently got the word "Believe" tattooed in very small letters and in a very subtle place on her body, along with the date she went to PQ. When I asked her why, she said, "I got the word 'believe' because it kept appearing in all the letters you and mom sent me while I was at PQ, and I focused on it the entire time I was there. I got the date I went to PQ because that was the date my life changed for the better." We are big fans of Pacific Quest. It turned our daughter's life around. We are forever grateful for the people who work there and what they do. I am the father of the girl who wrote this speech, and I want to add a few more thoughts.

PQ changed my daughter’s life — for the better and in a permanent and profound way. Before she went to PQ, she was on a scary trajectory: poor grades, endless family fighting, a trip to the police station, etc. After spending 10 weeks at PQ, she started at a new school and has gotten honors or high honors every semester. She recently got accepted to her first-choice college. She doesn’t fight with us any more than a typical teenager does. She has a new perspective and a “new story.” Her life is pointed in a positive direction.

Looking back over the last few years, I believe there were two turning points in her life: the first was attending PQ. The second was giving her speech to 400 peers and faculty. At that moment she took full ownership for her past and present. She delivered her very emotional story with remarkable poise and confidence. She is not ashamed of where she has been, and she is proud of where she is.

We are, too. She deserves all the credit for her turnaround. It was her decision and her actions that made it happen. It was hard work, and she did it.

She recently got the word “Believe” tattooed in very small letters and in a very subtle place on her body, along with the date she went to PQ. When I asked her why, she said, “I got the word ‘believe’ because it kept appearing in all the letters you and mom sent me while I was at PQ, and I focused on it the entire time I was there. I got the date I went to PQ because that was the date my life changed for the better.”

We are big fans of Pacific Quest. It turned our daughter’s life around. We are forever grateful for the people who work there and what they do.

]]> Comment on “This I Believe” by Lon Woodbury http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/12/this-i-believe/#comment-46 Lon Woodbury Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:15:08 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=513#comment-46 Impressive! This girl captured the internal journey students go through. Lon Impressive! This girl captured the internal journey students go through.

Lon

]]> Comment on Notes from Land Manager Patrick Leatherman by Mike Sullivan http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/11/notes-from-land-manager-patrick-leatherman/#comment-37 Mike Sullivan Fri, 05 Nov 2010 18:49:13 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=476#comment-37 Thanks Patrick for your enthusiasm in working with the students. The garden is rich with metaphors for "sustainable growth." The canoe plant lesson seems to be one of the favorites of the students! Keep up the good work:) Thanks Patrick for your enthusiasm in working with the students. The garden is rich with metaphors for “sustainable growth.” The canoe plant lesson seems to be one of the favorites of the students!

Keep up the good work:)

]]> Comment on Notes from Land Manager Patrick Leatherman by Suzanne McKinney http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/11/notes-from-land-manager-patrick-leatherman/#comment-36 Suzanne McKinney Thu, 04 Nov 2010 02:06:39 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=476#comment-36 What I think is amazing is how rich these lessons are. There is so much to the land...it seems the learning and understanding could go on and on. I love how it relates so closely to real life; real emotions and experiences. What I think is amazing is how rich these lessons are. There is so much to the land…it seems the learning and understanding could go on and on. I love how it relates so closely to real life; real emotions and experiences.

]]> Comment on The Long and Winding Road by Mary Beth http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/06/the-long-and-winding-road/#comment-35 Mary Beth Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:45:29 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=423#comment-35 Julie, it is a pleasure to work with you and your family. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and being so open. Julie, it is a pleasure to work with you and your family. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and being so open.

]]> Comment on The Long and Winding Road by Mary Beth http://www.pacificquest.org/2010/06/the-long-and-winding-road/#comment-34 Mary Beth Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:44:18 +0000 http://weblog.pacificquest.org/?p=423#comment-34 Sissy, I couldn't have said it better: GO ALLIE! Sissy, I couldn’t have said it better: GO ALLIE!

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