Honoring greatness with the Nurtured Heart Approach
Tammy Small, M.Ed. and certified Nurtured Heart Trainer
Events to Consider
Presenting at LWSD Parent Night for Special Needs
January 26, 2010
Parent Success Group: Igniting the Greatness in Our Children
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Presenter at Washington State School Counseling Conference, February 2010 Seatac, WA
VIDEO LINKS of Tammy Small speaking off the cuff on Nurtured Heart:
Links to some quick video refreshers on the challenges of honoring greatness always - and stepping away from energizing negativity!
Tammy’s NEW BOOK: There’s Always Something Going Right: Workbook for Implementing the Nurtured Heart Approach in School Settings (c. 2010)
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Honoring Greatness - Beginning with Yourself
(NOTE: This is the original version of this article which appears in Tammy’s new book: There’s Always Something Going Right)
What if you went about your entire life trying to bring forth the ‘greatness’ in every person you met? You would stop and notice. You would honor and name every great thing you saw, so enamored by their gifts and the values they exhibit in the way they live. One of the qualities which I know to be fairly strong in myself is a core faith that all people are good; that
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Thank Goodness They Break the Rules!
Parents set boundaries. Kids test them. Parents create rules. Kids break them. One of the most dramatic (re)revelations I had as a parent recently, related to this simple checks and balances of parenting life. As a parent of two teenage daughters, I am constantly being tested by my Nurtured Heart roots, to be firm, consistent, and also positive. The first two are easy when the boundaries are tested, the rules broken. But how do you stay positive in that moment? As we step into the
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Taking a Stand Toward Greatness in this Season of Advent
(This was an excerpt from my bi-montly Counselor Corner column which I write for my school during the year. It is a faith based school and a natural place to poke for Greatness).
As we enter this long season of waiting, we are often challenged by our children, the stress of a season birthed for celebration, and the irony of its expectations. I thought it would be an appropriate time to remind us of the power of taking a stand – specifically Glasser’s well-outlined stands of relationship in
November 24, 2008
Never Underestimate Who Our Audience Is: A Story about the Baby Steps of Change
This story reminds me that our social curriculum - our intentional relationship - is ongoing. Even to our silent audience members.
This past Tuesday, I did a short two-hour re-train with a set parent group. Most had read Howie's latest book - most got the concepts and intention. The community was the school I work in - but it was an independent Mom-to-Mom group. This night, the organizer had encouraged dads too - and kids could play nearby if childcare wasn't happening. The organizer who
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Peer Mediation, The Wisdom of Children - and the Power of One to make a difference.
In 2005, the Conflict Mediator Program I coordinate and helped create, won a Golden Apple Award. Today, I have moved the direction of my program toward Positive Interdependence- one where the trained students begin each mediation helping the students name their own great qualities, paraphrase what they hear - and later, after resolution - name the great qualities of their previous ‘nemesis’. The result is fewer mediations, more praise notes passed at recess, greater Peace. Greater greatness
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