Dr. Carney and Mental Health, May 11, 2015 Calgary
As a great follow up to the great job the students/staff did
in organizing our mental health week at Centennial High School, I attended a seminar with Dr. Carney, who
currently works with school boards in Ontario on mental health.
“Resilent, active, flourishing” are his themes for successful human
development. I asked him, what would the
ideal education system look like? His immediate response was that
teachers should be human developers first and academic teachers secondly.
When you ask anyone about mental health, they usually
describe mental illness. This is why
there still needs to be more conversations about mental health.
The following links are those that were introduced,
mentioned, or spontaneously arrived at over the course of the seminar: (one is
not like the others).
A must watch Shawn Achor: Ted talk. 90% internal & 10% external
followed by
Flow:
Standards for activity for individuals with learning
challenges by CSEP.
Positive Pyschology
A paper by Scientific American that you can site, cause you
say this all the time, activity promotes better health.
And finally a map of the brain, just wish my brain came with an app for this.
This is so cool, mapping of emotions in the human body.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
“A child’s
ability to learn is directly linked to their overall state of well-being and
mental health, of primary concern to The Hawn Foundation and Founder, Goldie
Hawn who was the visionary behind MindUP™.” (Hawn F., 2015)
For younger learners,
Oh the zones of regulation “is for loading and unloading
only” Zappa
I shared the quote in my room with Dr. Carney who told me
who the original author is, Dr. Ross Greene.
Then I found his website, changing the conversation about and with the
behavioral challenging kids. "Every learner whats to do well, if they can."
