Fixing the problem
Pro-Actively equip teachers with the facilitation techniques needed to enable young people to pro-actively learn how to maintain their physical, psychological and philosophical wellbeing. Teachers strengthen their confidence in this critical life learning area because they see the results in their students and also in their own lives.
Grasping the Opportunity
Subtly adapt a function or process that already exists within secondary schools (Form Time) by reorienting it to focus on enabling young people to learn PALS techniques that will help them choose how they make sense of any life experience. Create, through Form Time, the opportunity for all young people to hone their understanding and application of these PALS techniques so they can grow from strength to strengthen – how in growing new strengths you dampen. weaken and even dissolve weaknesses that might erode mental health or wellbeing.
Overriding PALS principle – that each and every young person can choose their attitude to any situation they face, no matter if they chose that situation or event. That is the ultimate meaning of personal choose.
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