As indicated in a previous post, reflecting on Work Life Balance was one of the themes of the NZPF conference I attended in the last week of the term. Being a person who regularly promotes the need for quality family time to school families and staff, but who only recently has begun to adhere to this himself, I found this a great theme.
Dr Tom Mulholland talked about Emotional Algebra and Healthy Thinking - "a technique that can be applied whenever they feel an alarm emotion, to identify the trigger, and then the thought that they generated in response to it. They are taught techniques for reworking this thought to a more helpful one, and given a ‘language' to do it with."
I totally agree, Shane. Stinky thinking produces stinky feelings and stinky actions. People don't think twice about cleaning their teeth everyday, but usually don't give their mental 'hygine' a second thought.
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