By Diane Covington — 2007
An interview with John O’Donohue on the secret landscapes of imagination and spirit
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CLEAR ALL
Emotion coaching is the practice of talking with children about their feelings, and offering kids strategies for coping with emotionally difficult situations. The goal is to empathize, reassure, and teach. Does it make a difference? Yes.
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Still clinging to the fears and fury of childhood? You can unarrest your development once and for all.
Some people harbor the illusion that rest is a luxury they do not have time for, but the reality is that rest is a necessity.
Sadness is a central part of our lives, yet it’s typically ignored at work, hurting employees and managers alike.
SARK’s whimsical, hand-printed, hand-painted books . . . are guides for adults (kids, too) who long to play and be creative, but have forgotten how.
If we can process our regrets with tenderness and compassion, we can use these hard memories as a part of our wisdom bank.
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There are various developmental theories that go into the tool kit that parents and educators utilize to help mold caring and ethically intact people, including those of Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget and American psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg.
Nudge kids to be their best selves by encouraging them to consume positive, inspiring media and online content.
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We’ve been taught to refer to people with disabilities using person-first language, but that might be doing more harm than good.
The definition of emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, differentiate, and manage our emotions and the emotions of others. The notion of emotions being important in our lives goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks.