Wishing you all a Happy, Healthy and Peaceful 2018.
I hope you all had a relaxing and refreshing vacation. Welcome back to what should be a very exciting 2018 as we continue to challenge education and prepare our students for their future's.
I wasn't going to send a Food for Thought this weekend but then I watched a TED talk by Lisa Feldman Barrett and thought that it is important that I share as we have such a big year ahead of us in 2018. Last year we spent time thinking about and focusing on our 10 Positive Emotions that can and do impact our lives. We did this work because it is very important that we are able to model positive emotional behaviors for our students as we create a school based around the concepts of Positive Education. With a new secondary campus about to open and massive refurbishment work taking place at the Primary campus there will be many emotional moments ahead for all of us. Hence, watching this TED talk which explains that we aren't at the mercy of our emotions but that our brains create them might be useful for us all to understand better. Of course, as Ms Feldma Barrett concludes, this means that we have to take responsibility for our emotions as they are based upon our previous experiences and predictions. However, this also means that by creating new ways of thinking about experiences etc we can control our emotional responses.
Again this research leads directly back to our mission and the word empowerment: giving students the skills to take control of their lives. The more we enable our students and our self's, through mindfulness, to understand and take control of our minds, the healthier and more successful will be our lives.
I hope you find the talk interesting.
Have a great 2018.
Yours
Adrian
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