I want to focus today on both how it is that we become better listeners and also how it is that we calmed our own internal conversation such that we’re able to focus more effectively on the ones that we’re having in the outside world.
The Pursuit of Change
In this article, we will discuss how changed is possible even when you think it isn’t!
Do You Feel Valued as a Teacher?
We’re all doing some sort of service for somebody else at the end of the day. But is it not completely and totally selfish of you to not share your talents and your true abilities? I mean let’s face it […]
Quiet Your Stressed Out Mind – a Guide for Teachers
If you, right now have a busy stressed out mine, I want you to do this technique. I want you to close your eyes and in your mind just say “Shhhh” you know like that quieting noise you do in […]
Dealing with Busy Brain
The main problem with being a teacher with busy brain is that it inhibits your ability to be able to focus and you want to have focus because when you have focus you have greater clarity over what’s going on […]
Communicating to Young People
In this article, we are going to focus on meta programmes which is a technique we cover in our teacher training courses. In short, meta programmes are not to do with what you think they are more about how you […]
Celebrate Your Greatness
Now is the time to stop and acknowledge your greatness – your success, no matter how big or small it is. As a teacher it’s all too easy to get caught up in the day to day and let the […]
Contagious Emotions in the Classroom
Sometimes anxiety is perpetuated by other people’s anxious responses, causing anxiety to bounces from one person to another, growing intensity until there’s some big explosion. How can we avoid escalating this? By keeping a low quiet voice. Talking quietly and […]
Reducing Rage in Young People
In helping a student deal with rage, it is important to deal with any past negative emotional events that may be the cause of the rage that’s being created now. Sometimes you or they, might not know what those things […]
Getting Rid of Frustration
Even after the cause of frustration is resolved for a young person, they may still have to deal with the physical effects. All that energy has to go somewhere. You may have noticed in the classroom how this might get […]
