{"id":62,"date":"2007-12-19T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/?p=62"},"modified":"2007-12-25T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T18:43:12","slug":"interest-area-education-especially-for-adhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/wordpress\/interest-area-education-especially-for-adhd\/","title":{"rendered":"INTEREST AREA: Education, Especially For ADHD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"yellow2\"><strong>Core Concepts<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"yellow\"><strong>1. Educating for human literacy: \u201cEmotional\u201d and \u201cSocial\u201d Intelligence<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Specific to the Creative Edge Focusing\u2122 model, the core \u201chuman literacy\u201d skills of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a1.php\" title=\"Intuitive Focusing\">Intuitive Focusing<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a2.php\" title=\"Focused Listening\">Focused Listening<\/a> can be integrated into education along with the traditional literacy of reading, writing, and arithmetic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Basic to the many aspects of \u201cemotional\u201d and \u201csocial\u201d intelligence outlined in Daniel Goleman\u2019s books, <em>Emotional Intelligence<\/em> and <em>Social Intelligence,<\/em> Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening, the core of the <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a3.php\" title=\"PRISMS\/S Problem Solving Process\">PRISMSS Problem Solving Process<\/a><\/u>, are two simple, self-help skills that everyone can learn.<\/strong> They translate into every sphere of home and work life, from personal growth and creativity to interpersonal relationship and conflict resolution to collaborative work in groups and teams to problem solving in our local, national, and global communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a4.php\" title=\"The Creative Edge Pyramid\">The Creative Edge Pyramid<\/a> of seven applied methods , every student can learn, in about forty hours of instruction and in preschool through post-graduate education, how to<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create new ideas<\/li>\n<li>Change problem behaviors<\/li>\n<li>Listen to another<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Resolve interpersonal conflicts<\/li>\n<li>Start a support group<\/li>\n<li>Build supportive community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Create win\/win decisions in groups<\/li>\n<li>Create innovative solutions<\/li>\n<li>Motivate others for collaborative action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Basic philosophy:\u00a0 Each child has a unique inner blueprint. Education serves, not to fill the child with \u201ccontent,\u201d but to facilitate the unfolding of his or her unique interests and talents and to teach communication, team-work, and creative problem-solving skills.<\/strong><br \/>\nSee also <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/isthisyou\/3a1d.php\" title=\"Interest Area: Positive Parenting\">Interest Area: Positive Parenting<\/a> <\/u><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"yellow\"><strong>2. Creative Edge Education is active, hands-on, always striving to engage The Creative Edge of each child<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>In <\/strong><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/isthisyou\/3a1a.php\" title=\"Creative Edge Organizations\">Creative Edge Organizations<\/a><\/u>, every worker is engaged at the Creative Edge of their own \u201cintuitive felt sensing,\u201d their specific motivating passion of the moment. <\/strong>So, too, in Creative Edge Education, each student should be actively engaged, actively interested, actively motivated to create out of their own Creative Edge, their own \u201cintuitive sensing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Business Schools, at the undergraduate and graduate level, hiring companies want employees skilled in working in collaborative teams.<\/strong> They have pushed professors from passive lecturing to aiding students to work in groups and teams. Students work on real-life, hands-on projects, including computer-generated business simulation \u201cgames\u201d as well as actual business projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, too, in our elementary and secondary education, if we want to educate future workers for creativity and innovation, students need to be taught to be active learners, to be engaged at their Creative Edge, and to work in groups and teams on collaborative, real-life projects. <\/strong>Read More about <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/isthisyou\/3a1c1.php\" title=\"Focusing In Education\">Focusing in Education<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Download Dr. McGuire&#8217;s article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/pdf\/2F2fDontFightThemJoinThemCommunityPlanforADHD.pdf\" title=\"ADHD Article\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t Fight &#8216;Em, Join &#8216;Em: Community-Wide Intervention for ADHD, School Failure, and Juvenile Delinquency&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more<\/strong> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a1.php\" title=\"Intuitive Focusing\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">Intuitive Focusing<\/font><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/coreconcepts\/1a2.php\" title=\"Focused Listening\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">Focused Listening<\/font><\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/isthisyou\/3a1f.php\" title=\"Experiential Focusing Therapy\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">Experiential Focusing Therapy<\/font><\/a>\u00a0at Creative Edge Focusing\u2019s website, filled with free downloads on creativity, spirituality, collaborative thinking, parenting, innovation in business, and many other aspects of application of Focusing and Listening skills at home, at work, in your community, and globally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See actual demonstrations of Listening\/Focusing<\/strong> in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/store\/products.php?cat=7\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">Self-Help package<\/font><\/a>, a manual in English or Spanish, four CDs of Focusing Instructions, and a DVD with four demonstrations of actual listening\/focusing sessions \u2014 everything you need to start your own Listening\/Focusing Partnership or Support Group or to incorporate these basic self-help skills into existing support groups.<\/p>\n<p>In the side bar at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/\" title=\"Creative Edge Focusing website\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">Creative Edge Focusing<\/font><\/a>, subscribe to our <strong>free e-newsletter<\/strong> for weekly reminders to practice Relaxation and Focusing exercises and join our <strong>free yahoo group<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/creativeedgepractice\" title=\"Creative Edge Practice e-group\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">Creative Edge Practice<\/font><\/a>, for ongoing demonstrations, practice, and support.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find classes\/workshops\/phone coaching<\/strong> in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/freeresources\/index.php#listings_pros\" title=\"Listings Section\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">Listings section<\/font><\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/store\/categories.php\" title=\"Coaching\/Consultation\/Classes\"><font color=\"#b85b5a\">Coaching\/Classes\/Consulting <\/font><\/a>with Dr. McGuire<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/about\/index.php#kathy\" title=\"Dr. Kathy McGuire, Director\">Dr. Kathy McGuire<\/a>, Director<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/about\/index.php\" title=\"About Creative Edge Focusing (TM)\">Creative Edge Focusing (TM)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cefocusing.com\/\">www.cefocusing.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Core Concepts 1. Educating for human literacy: \u201cEmotional\u201d and \u201cSocial\u201d Intelligence Specific to the Creative Edge Focusing\u2122 model, the core \u201chuman literacy\u201d skills of Intuitive Focusing and Focused Listening can be integrated into education along with the traditional literacy of reading, writing, and arithmetic. 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