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A Model for Communication
No full textThis article describes “the Haven Communication Model,” a communication strategy that was developed by Jock McKeen and the late psychiatrist Bennet Wong in the 1970’s and 1980’s, a time that gave rise to the personal development and the self-help industry in the Western world. Much of today’s growing coaching industry owes a debt to McKeen and Wong’s path- breaking work in communication, personal develop- ment and organizational development
a girl is a lizard is a body is a dropout is a woman
No full textKathleen Payne is a second-year undergraduate at Durham University from the northeast of England. She began a degree aged eighteen but struggled with feeling at home amongst her more confident peers at a top university–in terms of academics, appearance, and self-worth. Despite dropping out and taking some time completely away from education, she returned over six years later in 2020. This spoken-word piece traces her tumultuous relationship with learning through school to the present day, and how this entangled with her worries about body image and feeling worthy of her dreams of escaping the council estate she was born into
Time to Survive!
Get PDFJasper Yangchareon is a 34-year-old first-generation graduate student at Cal State LA. As a longtime musician and budding songwriter, he is constantly searching for ways to marry his academic life with his passions. The origin of this poem lies in an attempt to craft a song that touched upon the themes of nostalgia, aging, loneliness, and the crisis of identity unique to his first-generation college experience
Foundational Practices For Mindfulness In And Out Of The Classroom
Get PDFOne can practice being mindful through conscious awareness and focused attention at any given moment throughout the day. Further, incorporating a formal mindfulness practice can be viewed as a valid strategy for helping to improve overall well-being. The purpose of this article is to provide teachers with four foundational mindfulness practices and four additional tips for using these activities in and outside the classroom. The foundational practices and tips provided are arguably some of the more basic mindfulness techniques, yet there is strong empirical evidence to suggest these activities can be useful in promoting a wide range of mental and physiological health benefits. The four foundational practices include Feel the Connection of Feet to the Ground, Find your Breath, Sense the Space Around You, and Hand on Heart. The four tips include Simple but not Easy, Sound Therapy, Processing Questions, and Mindful Self-Compassion Practices. We believe that a wide variety of individuals may be able to promote their social and emotional health from use of these contemplative practices and are hopeful teachers will find them to be personally and instructionally beneficial
