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Join us for a conversation with Becca McSweeney, a Montessori educator, parent coach, and toddler classroom teacher! Becca joined The PEACE Program as a Facilitator in 2022 and works with families internationally through our Masterclass.

In This Episode:

Becca and Mariana take on Sensitive Periods!  What are they? How do they work? What observations can be made of the child in a specific Sensitive Period? And so much more! As fellow Montessori teachers who’ve lived and breathed this age group in Montessori schools, they both discuss their experiences, insights and more to help you start to spot Sensitive Periods with your child and then know how to use them to meet your child’s potential at home.

Connect with both Mariana and Becca in the Montessori Masterclass

Welcome to the Financial Changemakers podcast with Gretchen Betts – Managing Director at Magenta Financial Planning and Olivia Parnell – Coach, New Horizons, Voluntary Norfolk.

This podcast series is for you if you are interested in learning about diversity and inclusion and are keen to embrace and make positive change in your life, business, management style or company ethos.

In this eighth episode, hosts Gretchen and Olivia, discuss Practicality and Language with their guest Anj Handa - Founder of Inspiring Women Changemakers. 

Anj supports organisations by working with them to keep their policies and practices up to date in relation to inclusive communications, diversity, and good governance. Diversity underpins everything.

Anj talks to us about how businesses need to be aware of what’s really going on in their working environment.

• Staff turnover
• Grievances
• Exit interviews
• Staff Absences
• Lack of Participation

If we collect the information, provide a healthy workspace, and provide the training to facilitate this this will lead to better diversity and inclusion outcomes. 

If people in roles of leadership aren’t diverse. What difference will the changes truly make?

Key Take Aways from this episode:

• Corporate policies can only go so far.
• It is about people. Workplaces are shaped by the way people interact with each other.
• Take the time to think about how you can have more positively influence the way people within your workplace are interacting with each other.

Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Don’t be complicit. If you see something is wrong, say something.

This podcast series is about creating a safe place for discussion and ultimately enabling you, our listener, to be a Changemaker.

Let’s listen. Let’s Discuss. Let’s Learn. Let’s Implement Positive Change.

Believe it or not, there is a connection between all these questions.

The first question came into the foreground for me when I first moved to Britain to do my PhD and was regularly doling out guidance to my student housemates. One of them was convinced that I ‘got’ her in a way her boyfriend didn’t.

I didn’t have the heart to tell her I don’t think anyone ever truly ‘gets’ anyone else.

Clearly ‘getting’ someone means to ‘understand’ them, but in the same way that you ‘get’ the punchline of a joke. To get a joke means that you have access to all the assumptions on which the joke is based. (In linguistics these are called implicatures.)

But jokes are simple, and people are vast and complex.

And you are not a joke. You are nothing less than a wild, mad-cap, unsolvable mystery. By definition, ungettable.

But that doesn’t stop us from longing to be seen, understood, to feel held, to resonate with someone. To experience that beautiful sense of freedom that comes from not having to explain yourself.

I believe that this longing, this loneliness, is part of the human condition, and I believe that what causes it is language. To illustrate this point, I’ve rewritten my favourite fairy tale, Rapunzel, in a story called ‘Longing’ (which is available on my Grammar for Dreamers blog grammarfordreamers.wordpress.com).

According to my version of the story, the Earth once had a longing that only the Sorceress, Language, could fulfil.

What could the Earth possibly long for? The natural world is governed by interconnection and symbiosis. How could it possibly be lonely?

What if the Earth longs for longing itself? What if the Earth longs to experience the separateness that can only be experienced by a distinct, isolated self?

In my version of the Rapunzel story, I have the Earth abandon one of its beloved creatures (human beings) to the one magical being that could provide that (language).

Language creates the self.

What the self creates is, precisely, nothing.

If we see the self as a membrane (another of my favourite images), and when we look courageously at what’s inside that membrane, we see... nothing

Nothing we can grasp, nothing we can ‘get’, nothing fathomable.

Just a miraculously fertile void from which new ideas can emerge.

And when those new ideas emerge, we are in the privileged position of seeing them as other.

Like a magical doll in a fairy tale, or a wiser, more compassionate version of ourselves.

The Self and the Other allow us to experience mystery.

And through us, the Earth can experience mystery as well.

Check out my free course, ‘Writing through the Lens of Language’: bit.ly/lensoflanguage

Join my Patreon community for more linguistic inspiration: https://www.patreon.com/jodieclark

Follow me on Instagram @grammarfordreamers, Facebook www.facebook.com/Grammarfordreamers/ or Twitter @jodieclarkling

Subscribe on Apple podcasts, Spotify or wherever you like to listen. Rate, review, tell your friends!

Believe it or not, there is a connection between all these questions.

The first question came into the foreground for me when I first moved to Britain to do my PhD and was regularly doling out guidance to my student housemates. One of them was convinced that I ‘got’ her in a way her boyfriend didn’t.

I didn’t have the heart to tell her I don’t think anyone ever truly ‘gets’ anyone else.

Clearly ‘getting’ someone means to ‘understand’ them, but in the same way that you ‘get’ the punchline of a joke. To get a joke means that you have access to all the assumptions on which the joke is based. (In linguistics these are called implicatures.)

But jokes are simple, and people are vast and complex.

And you are not a joke. You are nothing less than a wild, mad-cap, unsolvable mystery. By definition, ungettable.

But that doesn’t stop us from longing to be seen, understood, to feel held, to resonate with someone. To experience that beautiful sense of freedom that comes from not having to explain yourself.

I believe that this longing, this loneliness, is part of the human condition, and I believe that what causes it is language. To illustrate this point, I’ve rewritten my favourite fairy tale, Rapunzel, in a story called ‘Longing’ (which is available on my Grammar for Dreamers blog grammarfordreamers.wordpress.com).

According to my version of the story, the Earth once had a longing that only the Sorceress, Language, could fulfil.

What could the Earth possibly long for? The natural world is governed by interconnection and symbiosis. How could it possibly be lonely?

What if the Earth longs for longing itself? What if the Earth longs to experience the separateness that can only be experienced by a distinct, isolated self?

In my version of the Rapunzel story, I have the Earth abandon one of its beloved creatures (human beings) to the one magical being that could provide that (language).

Language creates the self.

What the self creates is, precisely, nothing.

If we see the self as a membrane (another of my favourite images), and when we look courageously at what’s inside that membrane, we see... nothing

Nothing we can grasp, nothing we can ‘get’, nothing fathomable.

Just a miraculously fertile void from which new ideas can emerge.

And when those new ideas emerge, we are in the privileged position of seeing them as other.

Like a magical doll in a fairy tale, or a wiser, more compassionate version of ourselves.

The Self and the Other allow us to experience mystery.

And through us, the Earth can experience mystery as well.

Check out my free course, ‘Writing through the Lens of Language’: bit.ly/lensoflanguage

Join my Patreon community for more linguistic inspiration: https://www.patreon.com/jodieclark

Follow me on Instagram @grammarfordreamers, Facebook www.facebook.com/Grammarfordreamers/ or Twitter @jodieclarkling

Subscribe on Apple podcasts, Spotify or wherever you like to listen. Rate, review, tell your friends!

Steph from the Book Chat team joins us today on the DMPL Podcast to talk about books for Latinx Heritage Month! She has a book picked out for adults, young adults, and children and discusses what she loves about each. Be sure to check out the bookmarks in the Show Notes for more Latinx Heritage Month reading suggestions.

Show Notes

Steph's Picks

• My Broken Language, by Quiara Alegria Hudes
  
• Fat Chance Charlie Vega, by Crystal Maldonado
  
• Merci Suarez Changes Gears, by Meg Medina

Reading Lists/Bookmarks

Printing Instructions: When looking at printing options, you must DESELECT “fit to print” or “fit to page.”

• Adult Fiction
• Nonfiction/Biography
• Teens
• Middle Grades
• Early Readers
• Pre-readers

Yet another SLP grad crushing their interview. A big thankyou to Claire for debriefing over her interview success which helped her to land a job at a competitive hospital and community last grad round. We talk about the process, her part time work experience as a student which she talked about at interview and some good techniques to answer interview questions such as - How would you manage conflict with a colleague? Why do you want to work here and what can you bring to the team and of course the ever present service values question... We will be debriefing further about these questions in our facebook group which is perfect for early career SLP, OT, Physio and any other health students here - get involved to get an idea of whats involved with the job process! https://www.facebook.com/groups/418684682080119/

You can also check out our podcast with Tahlia who goes over her own questions and stay tuned for more interview skills podcasts coming soon...