"Tashi Delay" is the way people greet each other in Tibet. It means "I honor the greatness in you."
"All people want and have the right to be treated with Dignity and Respect, No Exceptions. But just what is Dignity? What is Respect? This process starts with becoming aware of our personal power, defining who we are, and being true to that vision regardless of circumstances.
This fun and interactive session builds self esteem and personal dignity.
Learn how treating others with dignity and respect benefits us! Think you can't change the world? You already have!
Student performance is impacted by motivating and demotivating factors that occur both in the classroom and school environment as a whole.
This session includes Personal Motivation Principles; Goal Setting; Process vs Outcome; Present Moment Awareness; Personal Dignity; the Power of Choice; and more.
The principles are presented in an easy to incorporate format for educators. This session is also available as a Personal Motivation Assembly program for students.
An Introduction To School Mobbing and Emotional Abuse
c2002 Gail Pursell Elliott
Mobbing is group bullying. It is a ganging up on someone using the tactics of rumor, innuendo, discrediting,
isolating, intimidating, and above all, making it look as if the targeted person is responsible. As is typical of
many abusive situations, the perpetrators maintain that the victim deserved it.
This term may be new to you but I m sure you quickly recognize the behavior. If you are familiar with Stephen King's
"Carrie", Arthur Miller s "The Crucible", or if you saw the movie "Dead Poet s Society", you have seen examples of
mobbing and what it can do.
Though the subject of books, plays, and movies, mobbing behavior is not fictional. This is real. Mobbing has a devastating
effect on everyone it touches and has a ripple effect upon other people, their families, their communities and society
at large. It contributes to isolation, physical or mental illness, depression, violent or self-destructive behavior,
and mistrust. The targeted person may act inappropriately due to prolonged extreme stress.
Everyone saw bullies picking on kids in the school yard while we were growing up. This behavior has contributed to
many acts of school violence, yet no one in the United States really paid much attention to it until recently. Though
mobbing and bullying in schools has been going on for many years, children were not bringing weapons to school and
murdering each other. It is amazing that we have been in such denial that we had to be told the obvious out loud before
anyone would take action. In this case, someone had to die and a finger directly pointed at this type of behavior before
anyone would pay real attention to this issue.
The response to potential violence is often more reactive than proactive. Instead of creating awareness and promoting
dignity and respect for all people, security systems and surveillance cameras are installed. Stiffer gun control laws are
suggested. The plain truth is that many people are walking around with a deep anger inside of them and don t know why. I
believe that one of the reasons is because so many have been treated like objects rather than as unique human beings
for too long.
We don t have to wait until violence erupts to take action. The violence that is showcased in the media is extreme.
What isn't reported is much more pervasive. Some are afraid of riding the school bus. Some are afraid to say something
because they fear retaliation. Some are excluded and humiliated. Just because a person isn t beaten up & doesn't mean
they aren't beaten up inside.
All you have to do is open the newspaper or turn on the evening news to know that we re on a collision course with
something extremely unpleasant if we don t start changing the way we treat each other. Our children follow and expand
upon the example we set for them.
Insight and awareness play a major role in change. So many people engage in this type of behavior without thinking.
Prevention includes paying attention not only to what we re doing but also to what is going on around us. Most people
don't intentionally abuse someone.
I invite you to join me in an effort to spread awareness and to help our young people. Treating others with dignity and
respect .. or not doing so, impacts the future for all of us.
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