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?