What do you mean by “the Sacred Flight?”
There is something inherently sacred about the lives of teenagers. In their passage from childhood to adulthood, a new adult life forms and emerges for all to see. “The Sacred Flight” is the life journey every child takes through adolescence into adulthood. Parents engage in “sacred work,” because they help bring forth this new life — strong, independent, and responsible. Teens are preparing to take a “sacred step” — discovering an adult self.
Dr. Susan Smith Kuczmarski has taught at 8 universities, now at Northwestern University and Loyola University in Chicago. She is an award-winning author of 6 books, 3 on families and 3 on leadership, including her newest, Becoming A Happy Family: Pathways to the Family Soul (2015), and her best-selling, The Sacred Flight of the Teenager: A Parent’s Guide to Stepping Back and Letting Go, which was released (2019) in Egypt in Arabic. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, she has researched extensively how children learn social skills and teens become leaders. A frequent radio and television guest, she has appeared on "The Today Show" and speaks regularly to parents and educators. Listed in Who's Who in the World for 12 years and an International Fellow of Columbia University, her 35 years of college teaching and research have made her an expert on issues devoted to the contemporary family.
