A practical example of transcending “Green” [Podcast 7]

 

Exercising my capacity to judge and take immediate responsibility for my behaviour

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In this episode Mats Edin describes how to transcend the "don't judge!," every perspective is equal, unhealthy "Green" swamp. He uses the model "It's your choice!", the three step-model, together with a developmental scale. In this example he goes 180 degrees against the "Green" Swedish pedagogy and has students judge their own and each others behaviour. The result is nothing less than rapid and dramatic transformation out of a very troubled situation.

"I asked twenty four thirteen year old kids to give a number on a scale between one and ten as to how much they contributed to the emotional and psychological climate in the class. Ten means ‘I take full responsibility for the whole class and I'm doing everything I can and even more.' One means ‘I am totally destroying everything all the time, trying to sabotage.'"

"This is the next level. My goal here was to point out, confront and have students map them selves on a development map. Because when you do that you can move forward."