An idea that might just work!
We might have come up with something that could work!
Maybe this will help everyone work together--
changing our concept just a little bit.
Its been hard to get everone to work together. REALLY hard. My therapist has been working around the concept of us working together as a "family", all living together in the same house, all trying to get along. Which is what works for a LOT of people.
However. It has not been going so well.
There's been resistance here and there to the concept of "FAMILY."
Doing an internal poll, everyone has a negative reaction of some sort to the idea of "Family"-- even Carol, who is the most mothering and nurturing of us all. She is, after all, modeled after the mother on Little House on the Prairie who we all wanted to be our "Ma".
Even though growing up there really were a lot of happy, fun moments, at this point we all still think Family=sad. Family=yuck/no thanks.
However. What if we changed our thinking just a little bit?
What is a place that we ALL love, and ALL have a positive image of, and all love to be?
School!
Now SCHOOL is something we can understand. Being a teacher, being a student, being in faculty meetings, working together for the better of the school-- THOSE are things that all of us inside can relate to and understand.
What if we started thinking of those dreaded internal family meetings as "Faculty Meetings?" Now THERE'S some potential positives.Family meetings sound foreboding, terrifying. Faculty meetings actually can be fun at times, and faculty meetings are associated with people working together for the common good and learning to help the kids better (at least at my school!)
What if instead of thinking of internal parental figures, we thought of "Administration"? This is much less terrifying for everyone, and something that even the kids can understand. Moms and dads might do terrible things and hurt you and leave you-- but administrators-- your principal, counselors, secretaries--- they are nice.
Anyway... we're going to try this, and see what happens... after writing about this in our [realtime] journal tonight, EVERYONE (including myself) has been receptive to the idea.
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