This book illustrates the powerful, life-changing Option Process® Dialogue in action. Barry Neil Kaufman takes us on a very intimate journey presenting ten uplifting, in-depth portraits of young people engaged in transformative dialogues with him.

The reader witnesses moments of extreme crisis involving rape, questions of sexuality, a dying parent, divorce, the prison of drugs as these people learn to break through their pain and triumph in the face of challenge and crisis.

In Giant Steps, people at critical turning points are met by a man who neither judges them nor bombards them with advice, but simply accepts them and helps them make their own choices

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"A liberating book; the perfect book for someone hurting inside." -- Los Angeles Times

"A great book." -- Bill Cosby

"A feast for the heart. There are lessons in love for everyone here." -- The Boston Globe

"Giant Steps is a collection of inspiring stories of teenagers looking within themselves to deal with a whole gamut of challenging life situations. In addition to warming your heart, you'll also be introduced to the process by which these people were able to reverse the direction of their lives. By answering questions about how they felt and what they thought, these young adults decided to change how they viewed their situations and were thus empowered to take dramatically new actions." -- Jon C. Hillegeist