Learning the Essential Lesson

Hearing a doctor say heart attack or cancer has a very specific way of giving our mind a pinpoint focus. I believe that social emotional learning can do the same thing. Courageously exploring authenticity, vulnerability, and integrity like a life-threatening diagnosis is a blessing. Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” I passionately agree. This life is an exquisite learning process. We enter the classroom of life unprepared and inadequate. Social emotional learning is the best preparation I have found for the challenges of life. Whole child education, balancing the mind and the heart, enables us to find our sense of purpose or mission even in a world that breaks us repeatedly. Social emotional learning helps us gain perspective, resiliency, a belief in possibilities, and passion for life.

Sometimes it takes illness, knowing you have already loved longer than you will live, to learn the essential lesson.

Life continues to speak to me. Be still, be courageous, listen.

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