What's all the GT hubbub, bub?

In pockets of Canada and the US, throughout Puerto Rico and South America, spashing across Europe and even Asia and the Middle East, a buzz is growing about something called Gentle Teaching. It's gaining momentum because, like most things essential to humanity, it's easy and it works.

So what exactly is Gentle Teaching, anyway?

To put it simply, it's a nonaversive approach to caring for children, seniors, people with disabilities, and others whose life circumstances have made it difficult to enter into meaningful relationships. It is especially important for those who have been marginalized - kept on the outskirts of society - due to challenging behaviors.

Gentle Teaching is a philosophy of care that begins with the care giver. It asks you to take measurement of the scope of your embrace, the lines you will not cross, and the boundaries that you've placed within your own life. Gentle Teaching will entreat you to soften to others - even those with severe challenges - so that you can then entreat others to become meaningfully engaged within their community. In this place, challenging behaviors dissolve.

It's a very effective tool. There are many tools and methods out there. So, what sort of philosophy of care is being implemented at your agency/place of work/school/home?

GT Educators coffee house is now open!

Welcome in to our safe haven! Mr. Jones has the fridge stocked with C2 (Pepsi drinkers are welcome too). Mrs. Jones has the coffee on strong.

We want to talk about gentleness. Gentleness in the workplace. Gentleness at home and at school. In the face of violence. Gentleness for mending broken hearts. Proactive gentleness for growing healthy children into strong adults.

There is a philosophy of care out there called Gentle Teaching, and as you may know, it is changing the face of care across this planet. Mr. Jones wants to talk about that, especially if you work with people with challenging behaviors due to intellectual disabilities or other life circumstances. He will even answer questions if you have.

Mrs. Jones wants those school grounds where our chitlins spend much of their childhood to be places of greater gentleness, and she wants to hear your take: on bullying, on teaching empathy (difficult!), on discipline, and more. Got some experiences to share? Spill!

So pull up a chair and get comfy. We've got a lot to chat about!