Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #8: Adopt a New Belief

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #8: Adopt a New Belief

For the next exercise, I had to adopt a new belief, using the book’s methodology: identify a negative emotion that comes up frequently, name it, identify the belief that brings rise to it, then identify the new emotion you want to replace it with, and come up with a replacement belief to think of everytime that negative emotion comes up. […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #6: Unwanted Beliefs

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #6: Unwanted Beliefs

This week, the Leadership Step By Step exercise was to attempt to identify unwanted beliefs everytime you feel an emotion you don’t like. This exercise felt distinctly different from the past two. Whereas when I was just trying to identify as many beliefs of mine or others felt like it was something I had to constantly remind myself to do, […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #4: Write Your Beliefs

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #4: Write Your Beliefs

The Write Your Beliefs exercise, much like the 2 previous exercises (3 Raisins and Inner Monologue), is an exercise in learning how to step outside of yourself and become an observer to your own being. Whereas the 3 raisins exercise and inner monologue focused more on being a passive observer and just noticing what your mind is experiencing, the Write […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #1: Personal Essay

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #1: Personal Essay

Recently, I’ve been spending a lot of time learning about connecting with my own emotions, being more assertive, and how to be a better leader, particularly when it comes to sustainability and with my family and friends. Assertiveness and and emotional connection feel like something I could teach myself, but I find leadership to be a more elusive skill to […]

TSL:SFN – Sustainable Schooling w/ Buffy Cushman-Patz (SEEQS)

TSL:SFN – Sustainable Schooling w/ Buffy Cushman-Patz (SEEQS)

Buffy Cushman-Patz is the founder and executive director of SEEQS (School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability) Charter School, where students are learning to become stewards of planet Earth and healthy, effective citizens of the world. On top of standard core learning in math, science, social studies, English, and the arts, students combine concepts with project-based experiences that allow students […]

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