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Following last week 's article regarding the Science of Creative Adolescence movement Mr. P. Ness has been stimulated to come forth with the following reply —

"Although it is true that the practical technique of the Science of Creative Adolescence is primarily a do-it-yourself thing, the programme continues for those who wish to come together occasionally. The whole thrust of the practice is to learn how to handle the slippery affairs of everyday life in the same fashion as one handles oneself during the regular period devoted to the practice. One finds in one's life that things no longer get out of hand but that one simply takes it as it comes. Members of IMS find it much easier to stick up for themselves.

It is true that when we first opened the centre in Wellington there was only a trickle of a response, but once we had pulled things together, people really started coming, so that now things are not as hard as they were.

The oral communication of the technique to another person has been likened to the planting of a seed in him. This grows and grows until he too is able to pass this seed on to others. This technique is not one of withdrawal, that is, we don't believe in pulling out of life but in getting stuck into it. The SCA programme is for those who wish to come up and stay up in the world".

P. Ness.