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Hosted by author, speaker, and coach Kim Olver, Life = Choices; Choices = Life explores how personal responsibility, emotional awareness, and intentional decision-making shape our relationships, leadership, and everyday lives.Drawing on the principles of Choice Theory® and…
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Teaching Students to Think: SEL, Character & Critical Thinking with Dr. Ed Dunkelblau | Part 2 (opens the original)
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What if the most important thing schools can teach students isn't more information, but how to think about the information they encounter? In Part 2 of Kim Olver's conversation with Dr. Ed Dunkelblau, they explore how social-emotional learning is evolving to meet the challenges students face in today's world. Ed introduces SECD 2.0, an expanded approach to social, emotional, and character development that goes beyond traditional SEL competencies to include purpose, curiosity, and healthy skeptic
Why Social-Emotional Learning Needs Character with Dr. Ed Dunkelblau | Part 1 (opens the original)
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What happens when students develop strong social-emotional skills without an equally strong ethical compass? In this episode of Life = Choices, Choices = Life , Kim Olver welcomes back Dr. Ed Dunkelblau, internationally recognized expert in social-emotional learning (SEL), safe schools, character development, and humor in education. Ed explains the five core areas of social-emotional learning and why SEL matters not only for academic success, but also for relationships, behavior, decision-making
What Mental Freedom Is Not (opens the original)
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Sometimes the clearest way to understand something is to understand what it isn't. Mental Freedom® is not positive thinking. It isn't blaming yourself for what happens to you. It isn't controlling your emotions, controlling other people, or striving for perfection. In this episode, I clear away five common misconceptions about Mental Freedom and explain what this work is purposely designed to help us do. Mental Freedom doesn't ask us to deny pain or replace every difficult thought with a positiv
What Is Mental Freedom... Really? (opens the original)
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Is it positive thinking? Emotional control? A way to avoid painful feelings? Or simply Choice Theory with a different name? The answer is no. In this episode, I explain what Mental Freedom really is, where it came from, and why I developed it after nearly 30 years of work as a counselor, coach, trainer, and educator. Choice Theory, developed by Dr. William Glasser, is one of the strongest foundations of Mental Freedom, but it isn't the entire framework. Mental Freedom also integrates insights fr
Mental Freedom Across Cultures: Choice, Agency & Empowerment (Part 2) (opens the original)
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What happens when people discover they have more choice than they thought? In Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Marcella Finnerty and Dr. Shu-Han Huang, we go deeper into how Mental Freedom® translates across cultures and what happens when women begin recognizing choices they may never have realized were available to them. Shu-Han shares an important insight from her work with Taiwanese women. While I often teach that moving from “I have to” to “I want to” can restore a sense of freedom, “I cho
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