[ instigate change ]

I will be posting a new activity tomorrow. But I thought I would just share this right now. I continually stress to my staff and teachers who attend my workshops to stop reacting to the behaviour of their students and start asking themselves why they are acting the way they do. Each person's background and circumstances often create a framework for how they react towards stress, confrontation, and learning. Understanding this can help us work with individuals and help them gain a better understanding of themselves. Self-assessment and awareness are powerful tools. The ability to look at where we have come from, where we are and then decide for ourselves who we are going to be is something I think we all want to possess. And it is an essential part of growing the people who are our future.

This blog actually started years ago. It predates [ the clean slate ]. I don't actually remember the reasons why I started [ the clean slate ] rather than just continuing on here. Maybe it was about a fresh start. I had started the Bear's Den and inconsistently posted about really nothing. I hated looking back through the posts and feeling disappointed with how I presented stuff...meaningless stuff. All I could think of was the writer from Ecclesiastes saying "Meaningless, meaningless. Everything is meaningless". I wanted to write profound things - but I never really came to that place. So I just ditched it and started something new. There's nothing really wrong with 'new starts' - sometimes they're needed. But the inability to figure out how to delete a blog left me staring at this dormant blog every time I logged in to update [ the clean slate ]. And then the Association for Experiential Education conference happened two or so weeks ago. I started ...