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What is Gentle Teaching?

From the Saskatchewan Alternative Initiatives http://saionline.ca/gentle-teaching/ A look at the basics Gentle Teaching is a non-violent approach to interacting with people with challenging behaviours and/or special needs. Gentle Teaching focuses on four primary goals of care-giving: Teaching the person to feel safe with us; Teaching the person to feel unconditionally loved by us; Teaching the person to feel loving towards us; Teaching the person to feel engaged with us. Gentle

Welcome

We should be very thankful to Cam for his leadership in constructing this blog. Our hope is that this will be one more way to share our experiences and form a stronger and deeper gentle community around the world. We encourage anyone who wishes to make this world a more peaceful and just place to share their experiences in matters small and large. We are all like a bit of

Greetings from the Gentle Teaching International committee!

As you may be aware, the development of Gentle Teaching International into a registered international non-profit organization is currently underway. The purpose of this development is to ensure that Gentle Teaching International will strengthen its ability to: – Support and unify ongoing Gentle Teaching efforts across the globe; – Promote Gentle Teaching training opportunities; – Ensure the consistency of Gentle Teaching across the world, despite differences in its application within

Letter form Maurits Eijgendaal -Chairperson of the newly formed GTI board.

News from GTI-board At our last conference In Troy Michigan we gathered some people in an open meeting, in order to talk about our plans and form an official organization on an international level. Please find the paper on this meeting on this site! The most important job right now is to collect all the email adresses. This went somehow wrong last time and but now we will try together