How do you think parents and teachers can BEST serve students in building more emotionally intelligent citizens?
http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html
Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and empathy, and is now using that work to explore a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness. She poses the questions:
How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to recognize that we are enough – that we are worthy of love, belonging, and joy?
www.ted.com
Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past ten years studying vulnerability, courage, authenticity, and shame. She spent the first five years of her decade-long study focusing on shame and empathy, and is now using that work to explore a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness. She poses the questions:
How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to recognize that we are enough – that we are worthy of love, belonging, and joy?
www.ted.com
What a great video to get you thinking again. Watched it with my husband and though there was not a great deal that was a surprise it was a good to be reminded of the subject again.
ReplyDeleteHowever I would like to know more! Ok to have a well balanced individual described but how, when clearly most people are to some extent or more on the opposite side of the scale, do you become one without a year or more worth of counselling?
Great questions! I would think that the first step towards becoming more balanced would be by recognition of the imbalance. How to get there? We must be practicing our reflective skill sets in schools on a weekly, if not daily basis.
DeleteDo you believe in SYNCHRONICITY?
ReplyDeleteSo I asked the question this morning, basically 'how do you become a more balanced individual' and I have just been given an answer, well 15 of them actually....
Check this out:http://www.purposefairy.com/3308/15-things-you-should-give-up-in-order-to-be-happy/
Spooky eh?
You asked and received! Excellent. This is another example at how inquiry leads to better avenues of emotional intelligence.
DeleteI understand how one can get sucked into focusing on what children are good at (particularly at school) but in my experience as a human being and parent it is what we are not good at that can shape our lives.
ReplyDeleteAs that unbalanced individual seeing ourselves as lacking in areas (and probably even more unhelpful, comparing ourselves or our kids to others) can be so debilitating that it overshadows our positives.
I know I have had all sorts of problems in the past when my perfectly capable son at maths compares himself to others (who are either gifted or schooled in the subject).
It didn't matter what I said to him he still felt 'stupid' next to them!
I think we should be more aware of how our own behaviour (parents and teachers) shapes our children and also celebrate of the whole child weaknesses and all.
Excellent share here!
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