These are three big questions that are addressed in Chapter 9 of Onward by Elena Aguilar. She opens the chapter with the following statement, If we see challenges as opportunities for learning, if we engage our curiosity whenever we’re presented with an obstacle, we’re more likely to find solutions. This habit and disposition help us
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Yes I thought that would grab your attention! All will become clear as we look at the next chapter in Onward by Elena Aguilar where she inspires us to cultivate compassion for ourselves and others. But first a few definitions since I wasn’t totally clear about the difference between empathy and compassion: Sympathy – when
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When I was teaching in India I did the Strengths Finder survey from Gallup. This is what emerged and I feel it is absolutely true: Your mind is open and absorbent. You naturally soak up information in the same way that a sponge soaks up water. But just as the primary purpose of the sponge
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When you travel by plane, in the announcements where it tells you what will happen if oxygen levels fall, you are always told to put on your own mask first, before assisting others. In the same way, you might have heard the expression “you can’t drink from an empty cup”. Basically, the meaning behind
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There’s a quote about collaboration that I use when leading PYP workshops: Members of a PYP learning community are open to new ideas, commit to capacity-building, seek a broad range of views, opinions and discussions, and follow transparent decision-making processes. They demonstrate agency through collective ownership, responsibility and accountability for learning and teaching, and
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Today, with war raging in Ukraine following the country being invaded by Russia, one very brave Russian journalist spoke out. Marina Ovsyannikova, who works at the Russian Channel 1 TV news, decided she wanted to tell her story. In a video she explained that her father was from Ukraine and her mother from Russia. She
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When I reflect back on my journey as a coach, I think the most important lesson I learned was to paraphrase the emotion that someone was experiencing, before paraphrasing what a person has actually said. I’ve used this over and over again in my daily life as well as professionally, so that it has become
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Oh Wow! So we are parents now. Can we believe it?….. Karen and Joshua were on top of the world. Karen had become mother of a cute baby girl, Tina. She had been preparing for motherhood for quite some time. They had read a lot of books and surfed the internet for the tips
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