Welcome to the School of Thoughts
- a place where you're encouraged to think about thinking, to pause automatic thoughts and to develop your emotional literacy skills.
Our educational system did a great job of crushing generation after generation of children's' creativity, teaching them to become compliant factory workers, to listen quietly and obediently to authority, while surprising individual strengths and imagination. It taught us to value external validation (leading to perfectionism) and to conform and think alike. It taught us to compare ourselves to others and assign winners and losers, the class clown and the dorks, the popular crowd and the outsiders, breeding imposter syndrome in most of us.
It may have taught us literacy skills but what about the skills that are needed to actually live a successful life (success measured in life satisfaction, happiness, internal peace and interpersonal skills and not capitalism's version based on money and status) - emotional literacy skills: How to cultivate and maintain healthy relationships, with ourselves as well as others, how to communicate effectively, what kindness and compassion is, the importance of connection, what love is and what personal values are and how they can guide us in life. Why we think like we do, feel like we do and act like we do and how to change these ways if they no longer serve us. How to take responsibility instead of blaming, how to seek understanding instead of judgement and how to stay curious and full of wonder instead of cynical and suspicious. How to trust and forgive instead of holding a grudge. How to manage our thoughts and feelings and not live a life full of rumination, anxiety, depression, stress, overwhelm and struggling with a harsh, inner critic. How to set healthy boundaries and what real respect looks like. How to cultivate optimism, resilience and generosity. Why we are the way we are as humans and how our brains work. How to manage fears and not live a life in the shadows of perfectionism, comparison and feeling like an imposter. In other words: How to thrive.
Some argue that it's not the educational system's job to teach us life skills but that of our parents. But if no one has taught our parents emotional literacy skills how are they supposed to teach us? How are we supposed to break the generational cycle of emotional illiteracy and abuse if each generation is left to figure all this out on their own - presuming that they do. After all, how are you supposed to know what you don't know?
At the School of Thoughts that's what on offer: An emotional education to break the cycle of the past. To grow in self-awareness and global consciousness, to focus on self-development as the tool for true success in life, to face your fears of what's within and be the change you want to see in the world.
It may have taught us literacy skills but what about the skills that are needed to actually live a successful life (success measured in life satisfaction, happiness, internal peace and interpersonal skills and not capitalism's version based on money and status) - emotional literacy skills: How to cultivate and maintain healthy relationships, with ourselves as well as others, how to communicate effectively, what kindness and compassion is, the importance of connection, what love is and what personal values are and how they can guide us in life. Why we think like we do, feel like we do and act like we do and how to change these ways if they no longer serve us. How to take responsibility instead of blaming, how to seek understanding instead of judgement and how to stay curious and full of wonder instead of cynical and suspicious. How to trust and forgive instead of holding a grudge. How to manage our thoughts and feelings and not live a life full of rumination, anxiety, depression, stress, overwhelm and struggling with a harsh, inner critic. How to set healthy boundaries and what real respect looks like. How to cultivate optimism, resilience and generosity. Why we are the way we are as humans and how our brains work. How to manage fears and not live a life in the shadows of perfectionism, comparison and feeling like an imposter. In other words: How to thrive.
Some argue that it's not the educational system's job to teach us life skills but that of our parents. But if no one has taught our parents emotional literacy skills how are they supposed to teach us? How are we supposed to break the generational cycle of emotional illiteracy and abuse if each generation is left to figure all this out on their own - presuming that they do. After all, how are you supposed to know what you don't know?
At the School of Thoughts that's what on offer: An emotional education to break the cycle of the past. To grow in self-awareness and global consciousness, to focus on self-development as the tool for true success in life, to face your fears of what's within and be the change you want to see in the world.
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