Choice Theory & Living Well – Inner Balance Program

Choice Theory & Living Well – Inner Balance Program

Exciting New Program 

The Inner Balance Program

Many people are struggling with rapid changes, feelings of overwhelm, and a sense of isolation. Yet, some people seem able to maintain their sense of balance and equilibrium. What do they know that allows them to stay grounded, open hearted and excited about life?

One of the things they know is how to focus on what’s going on within versus externally. When you focus outside of yourself it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, frustrated or helpless. By moving your attention inward you gain more internal control and stability. Understanding the connection between thoughts, feelings and the body’s response offers the potential to stay grounded. The key is being able to apply this knowledge daily.

The Inner Balance online program offers you a step-by-step guide to applying the concepts in your daily life. If you are new to Choice Theory, Inner Balance is a wonderful introduction to Dr.Glasser’s ideas. If you are a seasoned practitioner you will know it’s easy to learn ideas, but much harder to incorporate them. This program is designed to support you in living Choice Theory in day-to-day life. It will give you the support and practice required to make the skills second nature.

Glasser Canada is happy to endorse :

 the Inner Balance program and is excited to reach new people while supporting the current Glasser community. We at Our World Transformed Inc. appreciate the support of Glasser Canada. Please know your registration also benefits Glasser Canada and their pursuit of “creating peace and wellbeing for humanity.”

 

In appreciation,

Lynn Sumida
MSW, Senior Instructor WGI

 

Jeff Brown 
CT/RT/LM certified 

“Whether you are new to these ideas, personally and professionally, or have years of study and experience, I highly recommend Inner Balance. Even with all my years of studying, living and teaching Choice Theory, I found the beauty and value this course offers is the opportunity to go deeper throughout the day, live into and more fully embody the principles personally and… playfully catch myself when I am ‘out of balance’.

Lynn and Jeff’s inspiring videos released weekly, along with the Learning Log, and guided ‘homeplay’, allow for a clear path through the course. I continue to be amazed at the quality of The Inner Balance Course, for such a minimal investment. Please gift yourself this experience.”

Anna Corbett, MS, LPC, BCC

Integrative Health and Wellness Coach/Mentor, WGI Senior Faculty since 1982, San Diego, California USA

Meeting Our Expectation by Controlling Others

Meeting Our Expectation by Controlling Others

The following poem has been around since the 1960’s and it really speaks to Dr. Glasser’s work. All of his books and the training levels focus on helping identify the desire to boss and control in order to have our own expectations met by others. But the boy who liked to draw shows us the results of this popular way of being with others.

The second teacher, perhaps, took the Glasser training or read a book and aptly demonstrates the win/win of creating an environment where the boy is not wrong, is able to think and create his own flower. As the poem illustrates, the boy learns much more than how to draw a flower.

The Little Boy
(Helen Buckley, School Arts Magazine, October 1961)

Once a little boy went to school.
He was quite a little boy
And it was quite a big school.
But when the little boy
Found that he could go to his room
By walking right in from the door outside
He was happy;
And the school did not seem
Quite so big anymore.
One morning
When the little boy had been in school awhile,
The teacher said:
“Today we are going to make a picture.”
“Good!” thought the little boy.
He liked to make all kinds;
Lions and tigers,
Chickens and cows,
Trains and boats;
And he took out his box of crayons
And began to draw.
But the teacher said, “Wait!”
“It is not time to begin!”
And she waited until everyone looked ready.
“Now,” said the teacher,
“We are going to make flowers.”
“Good!” thought the little boy,
He liked to make beautiful ones
With his pink and orange and blue crayons.
But the teacher said “Wait!”
“And I will show you how.”
And it was red, with a green stem.
“There,” said the teacher,
“Now you may begin.”
The little boy looked at his teacher’s flower
Then he looked at his own flower.
He liked his flower better than the teacher’s
But he did not say this.
He just turned his paper over,
And made a flower like the teacher’s.
It was red, with a green stem.
On another day
When the little boy had opened
The door from the outside all by himself,
The teacher said:
“Today we are going to make something with clay.”
“Good!” thought the little boy;
He liked clay.
He could make all kinds of things with clay:
Snakes and snowmen,
Elephants and mice,
Cars and trucks
And he began to pull and pinch
His ball of clay.
But the teacher said, “Wait!”
“It is not time to begin!”
And she waited until everyone looked ready.
“Now,” said the teacher,
“We are going to make a dish.”
“Good!” thought the little boy,
He liked to make dishes.
And he began to make some
That were all shapes and sizes.
But the teacher said “Wait!”
“And I will show you how.”
And she showed everyone how to make
One deep dish.
“There,” said the teacher,
“Now you may begin.”
The little boy looked at the teacher’s dish;
Then he looked at his own.
He liked his better than the teacher’s
But he did not say this.
He just rolled his clay into a big ball again
And made a dish like the teacher’s.
It was a deep dish.
And pretty soon
The little boy learned to wait,
And to watch
And to make things just like the teacher.
And pretty soon
He didn’t make things of his own anymore.
Then it happened
That the little boy and his family
Moved to another house,
In another city,
And the little boy
Had to go to another school.
This school was even bigger
Than the other one.
And there was no door from the outside
Into his room.
He had to go up some big steps
And walk down a long hall
To get to his room.
To get to his room.
And the very first day
He was there,
The teacher said:
“Today we are going to make a picture.”
“Good!” thought the little boy.
And he waited for the teacher
To tell what to do.
But the teacher didn’t say anything.
She just walked around the room.
When she came to the little boy
She asked, “Don’t you want to make a picture?”
“Yes,” said the little boy.
“What are we going to make?”
“I don’t know until you make it,” said the teacher.
“How shall I make it?” asked the little boy.
“Why, anyway you like,” said the teacher.
“And any color?” asked the little boy.
“Any color,” said the teacher.
“If everyone made the same picture,
And used the same colors,
How would I know who made what,
And which was which?”
“I don’t know,” said the little boy.
.And he began to make pink and orange and blue flowers.
He liked his new school,
Even if it didn’t have a door
Right in from the outside!

Submitted by Elaine Stoll
The research on fostering imagination and creativity in young children concludes that early control of children with respect to school activities leads to a diminishing of imagination and creativity and also to a diminishing of academic achievement.