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Summer means…a chatty story about personal growth…
I love finding materials that move my work to a whole new level. Several years ago, I began a deep dive into continuums, and discovered material that is exceptionally relevant to my students, especially as they moved into young adulthood and beyond. Their purpose isn’t to insist on being followed, or cue students to give us the answer we want to hear. When appropriately crafted, scales can become. . .
Helping Our Students Understand Discouragement
We’ve been talking about resilience, perseverance, and disappointment this past month. Such important concepts and feelings – always worth discussion! Well, this time around, I’d like to add discouragement to the mix. . .
Helping Our Students Understand Disappointment
Welcome back 👋 to Part 2 of my mini-series about Fostering Resilience. If you missed Part 1, you can catch it here. Let’s pick up where we left off, using Soar, by Alyce Tzue to explore a story about not giving up. . .
Rising When We Fall - Fostering Perseverance & Resilience
Last month at CSHA I gave a presentation about fostering resilience. It’s so important, I thought I would do a bit of a series on this super important aspect to our work. Let’s start with some definitions. . .
Visual supports – helpful for SO MANY activities!
I have written here before about Critical Core – a therapeutically-applied role-playing game created by the great minds at gametogrow.org. I started using this program during Shelter-in-Place, and haven’t stopped. . .
How many times a day do you decide something?
I heard from many of you after February’s post focused on the importance of imagining. Elliot’s writings touched many of you, and I so appreciate hearing your impressions. So, I thought this time, I would share more of Elliot’s work with you!
Social explanations = complex language.
I have found that, it’s very hard to talk about anything social without complex language. People have feelings BECAUSE other people do things. We make decisions SO others will react in ways we desire. . .
Adult life in supported housing is full of opportunities to imagine!
Wishing sets us up for making and executing plans that actually turn wishes into reality. As I have worked with MSV over the past six or so years, I am constantly amazed at the importance of MSV like wishing, deciding, planning, and choosing. And imagine – what a handy process that is. . .