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- Sally Berman’s visit next year
- The next ACT 2
- Vision – what we want to live by
- The Wheel of Life
Sally Berman’s visit
Sally Berman will be back in May 2007
“Brilliant trainer and outstanding leader in the field of creating quality teaching practices for engaging classrooms. Not to be missed”… Don White, Trainer and retired Principal.
Imagine….
- memorable and engaging lessons,
- enthusiastic and interested students (despite themselves!),
- high level results
- less disruptive behaviour
- real quality learning
- an excited, joyful teacher at the helm (despite yourself!)
It’s not just an ideal, it’s a real world description of your classroom. Sally’s practical workshop will give you the motivation, inspiration and tools to make this a reality.
Her latest book is called “Performance-Based Learning: Aligning Experiential Tasks and Assessment to Increase Learning, Second Edition.” and is her 7th published work.
For teachers in NSW, who are implementing the Quality Teaching initiative, Sally provides both the philosophy and the practical tools to make it come to life in the classroom.
There will be workshops in both Sydney and Dubbo for schools and/or individual teachers. Places are limited.
Unique School Opportunity: Sally will be available for a couple of one-off special school presentations so please call NOW to secure your booking.
Contact Judith McFadden 02 9477 3421 dietnomore@bigpond.com or Don White 02 4733 1937 tradon@bigpond.net.au.
The next ACT 2
An Applied Control Theory 2 course has been scheduled for two weekends, March 17/18 and March 31/April 1. ACT 2 provides an opportunity to deepen your understanding and skills in Control Theory and interviewing. You will be introduced to the Method of Levels, which is a therapy based directly on Powers’ Levels of Perception, where the aim of the questioning is to help the client bring into focus the background thought at a higher level than the one at which their conflict is being perceived. Don will also offer strategies for Conflict Resolution and for staying grounded in difficult situations.
If you have completed an ACT 1 with AACTA, or a Basic Week with the Glasser Institute, we will accept you into the ACT 2, even if you have not completed a Practicum 1. If you wish at any point to receive Certification from AACTA in Applied Control Theory, you will need to complete ACTs 1, 2 and 3 (or equivalent) and the two levels of practicum, but we are flexible about the order in which you do it.
The course will be presented by Judy McFadden and Don White. The location is not yet set, but will be in Sydney, probably at West Ryde. Price per person is $495.00 including registration with AACTA.
Vision – what we want to live by – Camp Lanakila
Barnes Boffey sent me this a couple of months ago - as a vision statement, it creates a description of an environment that in these times would offer opportunities for boys to grow into “real” men….
Lanakila creates a camp environment where boys and young men can have significant transformational experiences in their lives.
We Provide Safety, Consistency and Time
We create and maintain a consistently safe, accepting, and caring environment that allows campers sufficient time to persevere through challenges, to self-evaluate against high but reasonable standards, and to experience the joy of exceeding their own expectations.
We Believe in Ever-Renewing Love and Support
Lanakilans continually renew their love and commitment to every member of the community as we all struggle to become better people. We accept differences and create an environment that instills in campers the confidence to take risks outside their comfort zones and to test their own boundaries. In the presence of a loving and supportive community, we can acknowledge both our strengths and flaws, leading to a foundation of honesty which is the starting point for any transformational experience.
We Offer Good Mirroring
As adults, we help campers understand how their actions affect others. As mirrors, we help campers see facets of themselves they may not otherwise see without the interaction that exists in a caring and honest relationship. We help them learn to ask for feedback from those they trust and admire, knowing that this will be a significant step on the road to becoming better people.
We Provide a Clear Vision of Life Focused on Our Best Selves
We offer campers an opportunity to focus on becoming the best people they can be. We offer a life style based on principles and values rather than expediency and convenience. We offer simple truths based on honest and loving relationships that highlight and encourage spiritual and personal development. Through our everyday interactions, we strive to create a community in which individuals are encouraged to be loving, powerful, playful and free.
We Promote Good Role Modeling
We strive to embody the positive qualities that we think boys need to become men. We model an openness to learning, a willingness to make mistakes, and an acceptance of new challenges as opportunities for growth. We model integrity, consistency, discipline, reliability and compassion. We demonstrate what it takes to be a fine person and that there are many ways to be a man.
We Expect Times of Frustration and Fear
We accept that transformation only occurs when we acknowledge failure as an integral part of the learning process. We remember that falling is as important as standing, and we show children that it’s part of being human. We support each other through the necessary but difficult process of letting go of old ideas, changing routines and confronting fear. We accept that living passionately and creatively involves periods of doubt, confusion and frustration.
The Wheel of Life
You may find use for this strategy – the questions are from our work, but we have not been able to discover the originator of the wheel … so we thank them for it!
Your Wheel of Life
Imagine you are plotting your life, as it is right now, on this wheel of life.
The ideal life is one where the outside of the circle is full and round.
From the centre of the circle (being 0, the least in balance) put a cross on the line to show your fulfilment in that area of life – 10/10 is on the outside border.
Now join the crosses – how full is your circle?
Can you clearly see where there are big holes in your circle?
Are you satisfied? Ideally, how do you want your life to be?
What area of life could you work on NOW that would make the biggest difference to your life?
Ask yourself these questions….and answer them out loud…
Reflective Monologue
- What is going on?
- What do I want to see happening?
- What am I doing now?
- How is it working?
- If I were serious about being the person I want to be in this area of life, what else might I be doing?
