Introduction to Positive Education/ Institute of Positive Education

Introduction to Positive Education Workshops

Jessica Taylor

• Learning to Flourish
• Exploring Character Strengths
• Exploring the six domains of Positive Education
• Learn it, live it, teach it, embed it

Jenny: 

My ‘aha!’ Moment was the ‘you can’t stop the waves but you can learn how to surf’ phrase.. it really spoke to me.

Also the discussion around positive purpose being based on individual morals - For instance it might not be about doing something for others. I hadn’t really considered that before.

I liked the idea of using a model of a ‘level up’ for teaching children about failure. I can think about a number of kids in my base group who that could really speak to!!

James: 

I really liked the idea of Positive Psychology being a progression from Traditional Psychology. With traditional psychology being reactive to mental illness, Pos-Psy (as I like to call it) aims to be preventative.

Gillian:

Well Being Meeting- Long Term Plan: Thursday 21st June

-Look at annual plan together
-Connect topics with the domains we feel they sit in
-Have some time to plan specifically for those areas, thinking about how we explicitly make the links to what we do with the domains
-Linking into the parent workshop evening around mindset and maths ---think about brain development/growth topics
-Day in term 4
-Visualisation of ourselves embedding model… day to day experience Gabrielle

Share plan - terms 3 and 4: what fits where; other ideas? Gillian Share pos ed Model, talk about that we do a lot and we can draw a lot of connections but it is really about explicitly doing it and connecting it for the kids. With that being said our challenge to you is to put the things we have done and the things we are thinking of doing back in the domains you think they fit BEST. Then brainstorm any other ideas you have that will connect with what we already are doing that we can deliberatley link to the model.

Focus five Susie

Finish to give teams time to plan activities

8:35 am Waiata 

Long Term Plan 

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Mahutonga and Matariki:

Autahi:

Tautoru:

Positive Education at Worser Bay: Monday 7th May

AIM = Refresh the big picture of Pos Ed at Worser Bay

• Start: song - Let it be--Uke Gillian, linked to positive emotions through singing
• Gabrielle led triangle breathing exercise, link to positive mental health

• Susie introduced the Flourish poster  Jigsaw activity with what fits into each domain - both bullet points and definition
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• Share plan for year - how are we doing…We have committed to teach and represent  Positive Emotions, Positive Relationships, music, and growth mindsets. We spent 20 minutes in teams developing plans for the next few weeks. Teams to report back in week 5
• Gillian shared some information about the Pos Ed spectrum with the provocation - where are you? Learn it live it teach it embed it. Everyone to read and consider for Thursdays session.
• We finished by looking at the view (appreciation of beauty and excellence), and sharing something you’re inspired by with view and with pos ed.