Positive Education @CIS - Exploration

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http://www.ted.com Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin.

http://www.ted.com Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?

music: http://theramintrees.bandcamp.com/track/to-be-serious First in a series on TA, offering some of the metaphors I think can be useful in conceptualising and dealing with interactions. This first video looks at the Parent, Adult and Child states, and basic transactions.

music: http://theramintrees.bandcamp.com/track/to-be-serious Second in a series on TA, offering some of the metaphors I think can be useful in conceptualising and dealing with interactions. This second video looks at games and some ideas on how to deal with them.

music: http://theramintrees.bandcamp.com/track/to-be-serious Third in a series on TA, offering some of the metaphors I think can be useful in conceptualising and dealing with interactions. This third video takes a closer look at gimmicks and some different perspectives they can be viewed from - including gimmicks as faulty rules, faulty roles and faulty definitions - and then possible ways out.

Parents want Schools to teach more than academic achievement. They also want us to cultivate a love of learning, creativity, resilience, optimism, character strengths, and wellbeing in their children. At Geelong Grammar School we recognise that young people need strategies to help them deal successfully with modern living.

Seligman’s Centre at UPenn. Please consider for basis of research into PD etc.

What is positive education?

“Positive education is defined as education for both traditional skills and for happiness. The high prevalence worldwide of depression among young people, the small rise in life satisfaction, and the synergy between learning and positive emotion all argue that the skills for happiness should be taught in school. There is substantial evidence from well controlled studies that skills that increase resilience, positive emotion, engagement and meaning can be taught to schoolchildren.” From Positive education: Positive psychology and classroom interventions by Martin E.P. Seligman, Randal M. Ernst, Jane Gillham, Karen Reivich, and Mark Linkins

This an excerpt from Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being

The Original Theory: Authentic Happiness

Positive psychology, as I intend it, is about what we choose for its own sake. I chose to have a back rub in the Minneapolis airport recently because it made me feel good. I chose the back rub for its own sake, not because it gave my life more meaning or for any other reason. We often choose what makes us feel good, but it is very important to realize that often our choices are not made for the sake of how we will feel. I chose to listen to my six-year-old’s excruciating piano recital last night, not because it made me feel good but because it is my parental duty and part of what gives my life meaning.

A day with Satish Kumar, in his interview for Earth Pilgrims, part 1/2. http://www.earthpilgrims.com/ Satish Kumar is an Indian, currently living in England, who has been a Jain monk and a nuclear disarmament advocate, and is the current editor of Resurgence, founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies and of The Small School.

A study undertaken in collaboration with members of the Oncology and Psychiatry Departments involving well-being interventions for cancer patients in Addenbrooke's Hospital. A CD based on mindfulness meditation and visualization has been developed for this project, together with a specially designed diary to record positive experiences.

At St Peter's College, our focus is based around equipping young men with the skills needed to manage and cope with opportunities and challenges in a changing world. Our Wellbeing & Positive Education approach recognises that building a boy's character is as important as fostering intellect.

The General Assembly proclaimed 20 February as World Day of Social Justice in 2007, inviting Member States to devote the day to promoting national activities in accordance with the objectives and goals of the World Summit for Social Development and the twenty-fourth session of the General Assembly.

This collection of teacher resources addresses poverty. The units highlight the story of a teenager named Himal from Nepal who shares his story of working to overcome challenging circumstances. The additional lesson plans, videos, multimedia and stories in this collection illustrate the issues and challenges of addressing poverty.

New Haven In her presentation on Sept. 7 at a symposium on inequality at Yale, Alice Goffman, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, talked about the winter of 2011-2012, which she spent living in Detroit among the very poor.

According to World Vision Canada, "food security is when everyone has enough nutritious food to focus upon other needs. Food security exists when individuals are no longer enslaved to hunger - when people are free to enjoy a healthy and active life." But how and why do people go hungry?

In this section you will find information about the services and support available to help end child poverty in the UK . This includes the first national child poverty strategy, access to research and data, an explanation of the Child Poverty Act and role of the Child Poverty Unit, and details of pilot programmes and other strategies designed to combat the issue.

Flannery O'Connor once described the contradictory desires that afflict all of us with characteristic simplicity. "Free will does not mean one will," she wrote, "but many wills conflicting in one man." The existence of appealing alternatives, after all, is what makes free will free: What would choice be without inner debate?

September 2012, Brian Mulcahy: Propose that we target a particular month and develop a series of activities that we can link through assemblies. I think we can link with mindfulness and well-being, so that we reflect on our own community, situation and the context of privilege: the helper carries my bag, the driver drives me to school etc; what does this do for our sensitivity to others and the development of empathy; I would also like to propose that we also link with Enrichment.

Documentary films about poverty

Feature Films The Soloist This movie, based on the book by Steve Lopez, tells the true tale of a Los Angeles newspaper reporter (played by Robert Downey, Jr.) who discovers a brilliant street musician (played by Jamie Foxx). Documentaries & TV Programs

Amazing documentaries about poverty. Stories that encourage people to start asking questions about poverty. Watch the films and add your voice to the debate.

A list of books about poverty on Amazon.com

Students to explore links between poverty and well-being, including ideas to do with choice and free will; stress, depression, fear and anxiety, power, the consequences for family, health. See the Spirit Level.