Parents & Teens, Teachers, Churches, Communities, Schools! Looking for Answers? First, you gotta ask the right questions! Then, you gotta look in the right places... This is where you DISCOVER the Roadmaptoward better relationship development!

Wise Women Gathering Place has been researching the issues around teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, sex education and abstinence training. Here is what we have determined. Our youth are being bombarded with feelings from their own adolescent bodies. We, their parents, schools, and communities are providing them with Abstinence/Sex Education training, but there is something missing. In our research, we have determined that our young people are not being given any of the tools on relationship development.

We began to look at this problem and have developed a program designed to give young people the tools to navigate throught the early part of a relationship in a new way. Instead of making decisions about sex as the first consideration, Discovery Dating's goal is to give young people guidance about the relationship issues and character issues of the other person and themselves.

Wise Women Gathering Place, through Discovery Dating has developed a resource that young people can use right away to help them descern their date's character qualities and behavior habits. This is very helpful in assisting our young people with making more deliberate decisions about mvoing forward with each other in a relationship.

Our young people need no longer be guided by their feelings alone, and they need no longer make the decision about whether or not to commit to Abstinence or carry condoms along, just in case. They can now have the reassurance that it is not the right time to be thinking about sex because they have a lot of learning to do about the person to whom they are attracted, and not they will know how to do it. Discovery Dating is a program that is the logical precursor to Abstinence/Sex education.