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Grace's avatar

Awesome article. This deserves to be read and shared widely. I hope you’re right that the shift to Transformative SEL is recent enough that it can be stopped in its tracks. I absolutely believe that society makes life difficult for most of us in one way or another, but unless we are individually resilient, we cannot work for change in constructive ways.

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I am so glad to see you making the distinctions between the original intent and content of SEL and what it has become--Transformation SEL. I have taught meditation to adults and was quite keen to move into teaching these sorts of practices to younger people, and I have friends who were quite involved in the initial mindful-schools movement. The skills that kids can glean such as emotional regulation are really invaluable, and they pay off so much in terms of improved relationships, ability to achieve goals and manage setbacks, navigate change and uncertainty, and even successfully lead longer term (EQ, rather than IQ, tends to separate the good leaders from the great leaders). I love how you are trying not to throw the baby out with the bathwater with your EmpowerED Humanity Theory and associated practices.

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