I’m calling the adults to put our stakes in the ground.

We need to overcome so we can teach our youth that they can overcome too

We need to ask:

What am I passing on?

What am I leaving as a legacy?

What am I passing on that will make a young person’s life better?

We show up to our dreams

There are solutions and ideas hiding inside of YOU right now that is going to impact them.

Today’s kids are different.

Teachers are having a hard time teaching these kids and bringing them closer.

It takes bravery to love prickly people.

Your school/workplace and home is a “community”.

Resilience: how I recover from difficulties

Resilience doesn’t come easy to kids who’ve had trauma.

We can’t give up on the hard ones.

We can’t give up on prickly adults.

Trusting people is an issue for most people.

We don’t know how to show up for the long haul for people.

People are crying out for people who will show up for the long haul.

People are crying out to be understood.

So many people don’t feel understood: labels, judgments.

Put up walls and armour.

We see everything through heart wounds and trust no one.

Bringing people closer means we have to be willing to show up for the long haul.

Not making behaviour the goal but to journey with.

DO YOU SEE ME? Will you understand me?

Look underneath behaviour. Behaviour is communication.

What’s it saying? 

The brave will find out.

Belonging creates resilience. 

The number one thing we can do: CREATE BELONGING.

There are hurting people right next to us.

Imagine a teacher seeing that ODD kid, or the child missing so much school, instead of judging them we say I SEE YOU - we call out the potential and growth opportunities in you.

I”m not going to let you go until you know this about yourself. I’m going to celebrate your small wins. I’m going to remind who you are the whole way.

I’m going to teach you what it looks like to walk through hard things

This has to be created. WE create it.

The only way you can create it is if you know you belong and know who you are.

Do you know you belong?

We need to rise out of our shame and inadequacies and remember you are so you can call this out in others. 

We live in a world where we are told to believe in yourSELF, love yourSELF, do it yourSELF

They need you to see them where they can’t see themselves so they CAN start loving themselves, believing in themselves. 

It doesn’t take just SELF it takes a TRIBE and bravery rises in tribe.

Every home is a tribe

Every school classroom is a tribe

Every workplace is a tribe

It’s OUR role to be the culture creator of my tribe.

Everyone will leave my presence knowing their great worth.

It starts with YOU. 

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