Element Is Everything

Imagine the important relationships in your life like family, friends, and colleagues, being peaceful, open, trusting, and cooperative. Feeling understood, and understanding others. Feeling respect. Today we hear from Lois Ingber, licensed clinical social worker and certified trainer for Positive Discipline, who shares with us how a focus on our feelings helps us best navigate the behaviors of others.

Mistaken Goal Chart

5 Love Languages

Imagine feeling smart, balanced, important, and connected. Executive Functioning-You’ve Got the Power is part one of four on connection is key. Last month, Terri introduced the concept of finding your element and talked a lot about the importance of self-worth and mindset and how what we know and how we feel about ourselves impacts us. This month’s focus is going to be on our relationship with others and learning!

The Executive Function Connection

While the path to your element is not always smooth, it is the rocky points that have the potential to bring out our best.  Before we can help our children, our students, and others, we need to get ourselves on the right path first.  And then we can walk the path together.

Terri speaks with Rick and Laura Sylvester about how and why they created a program of support dogs for children with special needs, especially keeping their son in mind, who has been diagnosed with non-verbal autism.

Earl Otte, Montessori educator, shares his story of the many paths it took for him to get to a place where work is play and he experiences joy on a daily basis. 

We all possess genius.  It looks different for each of us.  That’s what makes it genius.  The first step to finding it is to make sure we are not trying to be something we’re not.  Then we will be able to focus on what we are.