Educators Parker J. Palmer focuses on the spirit of education and argues educators who have the courage to teach effectively navigate their own and their student's inner landscape. Systems change of this kind involves an inside-out process. Palmer notes, the "most practical thing we can achieve in any...work is insight into what is happening inside us as we do it. The most familiar we are with our inner terrain, the more surefooted our teaching - and living - becomes." Parker J. Palmer, Author, The Courage to Teach
RESOURCES Friends Wear The Pants or Do They? - by Michele Lavery - A puppet show designed to encourage sense of self in children grades K to 3 with add-ons for Grades 4 to 6.
LINKS Increasing Student Sense of Feeling Safe: The Role of Thought and Common Sense in Developing Social Responsibility Center for Sustainable Change - is a training organization started by Roger Mills, the author of The Wisdom Within, helped turn the insights of Syd Banks into an applied psychological model that has been used in communities, schools and prisons. This site also includes The Center for Sustainable Change - Unleasing the power of resilience. http://www.healthrealization.com "we see an understanding of the principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought as the "essential curriculum" for students, educators, caregivers and parents that will assist our younger generations to most rapidly shed insecurity, fear, and the biases and prejudices of the past; and to more fully harness their innate goodness, creativity and wisdom to creat a world of unforeseen possibility and sustainable change." Sydney Banks - The man with the original insights. "Peace of mind is just one thought away... if you can find that one thought" National Resilience Resource Centre at the University of Minnesota - http://www.cce.umn.edu/nrrc West Virginia Initiative for Innate Health at the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University - A center, in a medical school, for the teaching and research into the application of "The Principles - Mind, Consciousness, and Thought" - http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/wviih Ellyn Satter and Associates - Ellyn Satter pioneered the concepts of the feeding relationship and eating competence. She helps adults be more positive, organized and nurturing in caring for themselves and their children. - http://www.ellynsatter.com/
BOOKS The following four books can be purchased through Lone Pine Publishing at http://www.lonepinepublishing.com/cat/self_help The Health Realization Primer - by Dr. Roger Mills and Elsie Spittle The Spark Inside - Ami Chen Mills-Naim Adolescents and the Myth of Peer Pressure - Mavis Karn The Magical Gift of Thought - A book of discovery for Elementary grades Eating Disorder Resource Catalogue - www.gurze.com
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