I found this quite interesting and thought it might be a good idea to share it with you. This wheel of emotions shows the position you are at, and is a useful tool for emotional literacy.
If you’re not sure what that word means, perhaps you can check it up and find out what it means because you’ll have some days when you run out of words to express your emotions!
Have you ever been surprised at how good educators somehow bring out the best in their students? Have you also wanted to do that for yourself as an educator?
In my work as a trainer, I’ve met many brilliant teachers. We’d already run our Transformational Teaching program since 2005, covering aspects of learning and teaching strategies, life skills and how to re-ignite the passion in some of these very dedicated teachers.
Some of them are very good at what they do. Yet, no matter how good they are, there’s so much more they can do to bring out the best in their students if only their methods change just slightly.
Many of us struggle with emotions and don’t admit it.
Right??
It’s in your head somewhere, but we don’t talk about it, we don’t think through it, and we certainly don’t process them in a way that makes us resourceful.
It seems that there’s lots of us who are unable to deal with emotions constructively in order to create the necessary changes in our lives. Negative emotions act as a weight that prevents us from moving forward a lot of the time. Sometimes, a negative emotion puts you into a point of making a decision, and depending on the way you make a choice, you can get ahead, or get into trouble.
Wow — three days of EMDR training has really come and gone. Fortunately for me, I had the opportunity to practice further to hone my clinical skill in EMDR therapy, and it has been astoundingly powerful and convincing.
So… I’m accepting new clients now who might want to work with me using EMDR.
The basic process of EMDR is quite straightforward. As a client, you will have an opportunity to allow your brain to do the reprocessing on your own without really needing talk therapy as the lead. We basically believe that your brain will do it’s emotional healing on its own. The EMDR therapist uses EMDR as part of a repertoire of skills to lead the client toward resolution of the situation.
You’re in the workplace and you encounter a really nasty person.
Wow! What did you do to deserve such a person, you think! Almost immediately, you might have vindictive thoughts or possibly think of a therapist (such as me haha) to refer him or her to for anger management therapy!
Actually, wouldn’t you be jumping the gun if you did that? You won’t know what’s happening in the mind of the other person, and maybe what’s worse is that you don’t really care. Perhaps, when you want to learn to deal with difficult people, you need to first understand them first. That would be, in my mind, the best first step.
I wrote yesterday about my first day’s training experience with EMDR Therapy. So far, I must say that the implications for using EMDR in a therapeutic setting as I have experienced are pretty intriguing.
It focuses a lot on re-organizing the memories in a client’s mind. So, what’s the difference between doing this and, say, Re-imprinting Therapy?
I’ve been involved in helping people in their personal development goals and over the last few years, to also develop leaders within organizations. I’ve found that there are a few things that are necessary in order for a proper Leader Development Program to benefit organizations.
Ah… fresh report from the oven.
photo credit: Vix Walker
Just so you know, I’m studying EMDR, which is an area of interest I had developed over the years since learning the similarities between NLP’s Eye Movement model and Francine Shapiro’s Eye Movement Desensitization process.
After looking at EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, for the uninitiated) training for day 1, one of the most important things that has struck me is the level of order and clarity that an EMDR therapist has in the treatment modality. It’s not trying to be a cure-all or panacea, and I suppose that makes it easier for the specific treatments to work.
I just thought to reproduce a list of useful marketing channels that business leaders will need to refer to. I’d also encourage you to look at this sample Guerrilla Marketing plan (first coined by my friend Jay Conrad Levinson).
Search Marketing
Blogging
I’m certain you’ve heard of the concept of a ‘generation gap’. In fact, this gap happens in many other places too. Racial gap, religious gap, cultural gap… the list can go on.
What exactly is this “gap”?
I was listening to the radio today and they were discussing the case of the 14 year old teenager in school who had beaten up her teacher. The main topic was, whose responsibility it was. It was quite funny because the first caller dialed in to blame the Minister for Education. The most of the rest contributed points that were borderline illogical (“I blame the teachers because they have no dress code themselves”).
