Positive Education SA

05/07/2019

Excited to announce the publication of 'Wild About Strengths.' This book is filled with poems and evidence-based ways to build character in kids. Each poem tells a story about a particular animal that represents a strength, and suggests how children can use that strength in their own lives.

Our wish is that the beautiful wild animals in this book will help 'growing-ups' understand and remember each of their heart and mind strengths, and how they can use these strengths at school, at home and with their friends, so that when they are grown-ups, their character is as strong and healthy as their bodies!

11/02/2019

Schools in SA, isn't time for this? :)

As mental health problems among children increase, the government will try having students practice mindfulness, relaxation and breathing exercises.

21/01/2019

January's 60 second read:

"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein

“Questions you cannot answer are usually far better for you than answers you cannot question” ( Yuval Noah Harari: 21 lessons for the 21st century. p207) Children like to ask big questions that flummox us: Where do people go when they die? Why Is the sea salty? Why do we dream? It’s tough grow...

10/12/2018

"Schools need to create a purpose driven mindset that is redefining success; from being the best in the world to being the best for the world." Mathew A. White & Ash Buchanan (Why we need Positive Education 2.0)

23/11/2018

Such a privilege to learn alongside these leading creative minds in the field of education, mental health & mindfulness!

09/11/2018

"We are not the survival of the fittest, we are the survival of the nurtured." Louis Cozolino.

05/11/2018

A 60 second low down- living into the answer...

Living into the answer We love this excerpt from “Letters to a Young Poet’ written by German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke: ‘I want to ask you, as clearly as I can, to bear with patience all that is unresolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves. . . . For everything must be liv...