In this 2 min. video, Dr. Dan Siegel demonstrates his model “Brain in the Palm of Your Hand”.
Month: November 2022
Brain in the Palm of Your Hand
by Daniel Siegel
Use the Brain in Palm of Your Hand doc for more specific language for modeling and teaching this to your teen.
The 4 R’s of Recovery from Mistakes
One of the best ways to teach our teens that mistakes are wonderful opportunities to learn AND that we can make repairs in our relationships, is to model this principle. When can model this by using the 4R’s of recovery when we have “flipped our lids” and reacted in a way that was hurtful, not helpful.
Download the 4R’s of Recovery from Mistakes and keep in handy for when you need to go back and make repairs.
Mistaken Goal Chart
Use this Mistaken Goal Chart (from Positive Discipline) to break the code of your teen’s misbehavior! Follow the “Break the Code” steps below:
Everyone is unique in how the grieve
“The stages of grief were never meant to tuck messy emotions into neat packages. There is not a typical response to loss, as there is not typical loss. Our grief is as individual as our lives.“
–Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
There is no time limit on grief – it ebbs and flows
“Grief can be undulating. One day you might feel okay and then the next you’ll be knocked over by the experience – that’s absolutely normal.”
– Dr. Jordana Jacobs, PhD
“The Most Powerful Therapy is Human Love”
The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from grief and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love. – Dr. Bruce D. Perry
Primary Needs Inventory – by William Glasser
Today you had a chance to explore and to get to know your own needs using the William Glasser’s Primary Needs Inventory . Please remember that this inventory is only useful as A BRIDGE TO UNDERSTANDING our teens and ourselves. It indicates a person’s goal for reaching a particular need that he or she has identified (in a given situation or time period) as a priority for him or her. It is only one part of the road map used in moving towards that goal and only one part of a person’s private logic.It is not meant to classify you nor is it meant to be used as a measure for predicting others’ behavior. EACH HUMAN IS FAR TOO COMPLEX AND UNIQUE FOR THAT! That being said, it can be a very powerful for increasing awareness of our own ways of handling stress and the stress we might invite from others.
Take a look at the William Glasser Needs’ Summary page and see if you can identify yourself and your strengths in the other need categories. Take a look at “what you do when you are stressed” and see if you can come to any insights that are helpful.