Pain Based Behavior

One of the central concepts in working with children and youth demonstrating " pain-based behavior" is to be in control of the relationship without being controlling.
The teacher needs to set the tone, rhythm and emotional quality of the interactions in the classroom.

This is learned behavior.  We must make a conscious choice not to "fight" with children.

When the young person coming from experiences of pain has the experience of your emotional stability....  regardless of their emotional volatility .....  you will eventually teach the young person that you are an adult that is SAFE and that they can TRUST you!

It is then.... that healing begins!!!

Wonder...

“Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table.
Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.”

 

― Diane Ackerman

One-Two-Three Story Intellect Poem

One-Two-Three Story Intellect Poem

 

There are one-story intellects,

two-story intellects,

and three-story intellects with skylights.

All fact collectors who have

no aim beyond their facts

are one-story people.

Two-story people compare, reason,

generalize, using the labor of

fact collectors as their own.

Three-story people idealize,

imagine, predict—their best illumination

comes through the skylight.

Adapted from a quotation by Oliver Wendell Holmes