Publisher's Synopsis
Previously published as A Therapeutic Lifestyle: Socio-Emotional Discussion Groups (McNaughton Centre [Quesnel, BC], 2012).
Introduction This program, through class discussions, explores direction and choices that promote good emotional and physical health, based, in part, on William Glasser's Choice Theory; and also highlights the importance of our setting goals (objectives), in particular students' setting academic goals, to give us direction that modifies our behaviour in positive ways, as we try to reach those objectives. Discussions at the students' experiential level encourage them to make responsible choices. Resources for discussions: 1. Students' goals, opinions, and experiences; and 2. Teacher's knowledge of a) Choice Theory and of b) healthy lifestyles (emotionally and physically). Students spend the first week (five classes; each class lasts 15 minutes [each morning at McNaughton Centre teachers discuss with their first class of the day socio-emotional concerns]) exploring goals in a variety of contexts (e.g., personal, academic, career). For the next 19 15-minute classes: students each day construct a single class web, based on the discussion topic of the day. Discussions explore foundations for responsible choices that promote good emotional and physical health. The author Dan Lukiv is a poet, novelist, columnist, short story and article writer, and independent education researcher (hermeneutic phenomenology). His creative writing has appeared in 19 countries. Recently, he has been experimenting with temporal shifts and narrative strings in his haiku and senryu.
