Improv therapy & improv parenting
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/parenting/improv-comedy-kids.html
You’re the star of your own show. Improv is about speaking truth in the moment, that’s funny.
Equity and Shared Vision
Normalize racial dialogue. Lead with empathy. Be healthy so we can respond authentically. Growth happens outside of comfort zones.
James Wogan, LCSW, featured speaker (main stage), ACSA Symposium Conference 2021.
Educational leadership. Association California School Administrators (ACSA).
Life goes in circles
Good news, life goes in circles and we learn something each time around.
“We shall arrive at the place we started and know the place for the first time.”
– T.S. Eliot
MLK on Interdependence
“In a real sense all life is inter-related. We are in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. … this is the inter-related structure of reality.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
Greetings from Stinson Beach
Sometimes nature, sometimes music 🎶, sometimes with friends, sometimes alone.
One person stepping away
Image says it all
Tiny Homes help Homeless Youth in Oakland / Berkeley
Tiny home village for homeless youth in Oakland / Berkeley. Way to go @YouthSpiritArts Sally and team at #YSA. Thank you for making community better and for giving young people a chance to give back.
How are the children? Masai greeting
From Masai tribe: (Kenya 🇰🇪 Tanzania 🇹🇿)
“Kasserian Ingera,” one would always say to another. It means, “How are the children?” It is still the traditional greeting among the Masai, acknowledging the high value that the Masai place on their children’s well-being, and community.
From Restorative Justice (RJ) Restorative Practices training.
Peace2u
8 % Happier with James Wogan, MFT, LCSW
When I first heard Dan Harris, he was on podcast with Sam Harris and I thought, “he stole my idea. “ I have used percentages and scale of 1-10 as a therapist since I lived in Tokyo, Japan. I said “8 % happier… “What percent is on you? (ownership question). “On a scale of 1-10, how angry are you?” and things like that for years.
Here was Dan Harris, the f’n host of Good Morning America Weekend Edition (fcol), using the title “10% Happier.” Oh hell no, he’s taking my idea. No wait, we haven’t met…. or had we? (suspicious face hmmmmm)?. I started going over a list of my famous friends (that was quick), the famous people I’ve seen as a therapist (that was quicker), then the parties at the US Embassy, Canadian Consulate, and other high falootin’ places I’ve been over the years. Nope. Nada. We never met. So I concluded, “great minds think alike.” Oh wait, except, the approaches I use in therapy I’ve mostly learned from children and teenagers in schools, patients at Kaiser, rehab, and from my private practice, and um, they don’t actually include meditation. Go figure.
とにかく izureni shitemo (in any case), check out this video by Dan Harris, learn how to meditate in 5 minutes.
‘I’ve Given Up’: Parenting in Quarantine
This article came out a while back in NYT. Shout out to Rachel L. Harris and Lisa Tarchak with New York Times for putting this together. I hope it brings kids and parents validation that you’re not alone. Kimōchi wa kimōchi.
School Based Mental Health (SBMH) Guidebook
www.dropbox.com/s/yf375ywj6rf0ieb/School Based Mental Health Guide Book SBMH.pdf
Recently released School Based Mental Health (SBMH) Guidebook. Authors across disciplines (School Social Work, School Psychology, and School Counseling PPSC) collaborated to develop this manual.
SEXUAL CONSENT IS:
VOLUNTARY
Not pressured or rushed
Can withdraw consent at any time
VERBAL
expressed clearly
CLEAR
No confusion
NO always means NO.
Only YES means YES
ONGOING
Consent before and during sexual encounter
REPEATED
Discussed more than once. Confirmed at each level of sexual activity
Confirmed again on different days
AWARENESS
All parties are fully informed. Not impaired by alcohol or drugs. Not pressured or rushed
REQUIRED
Consent is not assumed from clothing, social media, dancing, or body language
Sex without consent is a felony (rape).
UNDERSTOOD
Talking openly with each other about consent and sexuality is healthy.
Mutual consent increases intimacy.
It’s okay to be unsure, or change your mind.
Sometimes talking about consent leads teenagers to delay having sex.
Amid rapidly changing technology and the ever-changing new normal, Title IX, equity, and civil rights call out. Kids know youth culture what it’s like to be a teenager rn. We learn the most from the young people we serve.
Photo credit: Image posted for public to see at Alameda County Office of Education. Srry, I don’t (yet) know the artist’s name.
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