On the 23.05.18 a psychologist, the mother of a child of second primary school of Vrontados, came to school in the evening.
In the school library she gave a presentation about a topic which was interesting for both, parents and children.
Initially it was more theoretical.
She tried to explain how to deal with negative emotions, in specific anger, in the best way.
Based on a powerpoint presentation she pointed out, that there are two complementary parts of the brain.
One part is more thoughtful and rational and one part is more impulsive, emotional.
Respectively she recommended to reflect the own brain and to see, in which situations you can maybe involve the other brainhalf more in order to acquire oneself a more even-tempered personality.
If someone was just in his head and could not feel emotions he would tend to be lethargic.
But on the other hand, when someone was just acting out his impulsiveness without controlling the emotions through rational thoughts he would create a mess, for him and for other people.
What I appreciated very much was, that the psychologist showed also many pictures.
For example one metaphoric picture depicted an ice berg.
The upper part of the ice berg was above the water surface and there was written the keyword anger.
Being maybe five times bigger than the top the bottom part of the Ice berg contained many many other “negative” feelings.
The obvious interpretation of this was, that there can be many causes for anger.
Some people get angry when they are jealous, some when they are lonely and other because they are afraid of something or someone.
The difficulty is, that most of the times you can only see the anger, but not the actual origin of this emotion.
With this knowledge however, you can now try to understand the person instead of judging him/ her for the always bad mood.
The other big part was more practical.
She gave practical advice and methods concerning dealing with anger, especially suited for children.
As some children got invited to try a couple of her methods the audience got engaged too.
One of her tips was to give the children spices to smell.
The sweet smell of cinnamon for instance reminds the children, but also the grown ups of christmas, so that we calm down more easily.
Also she presented and demonstrated breathing methods supposed to simplify the process of relaxing.
In the end she gave the audience the possibility to go on a fantasy journey with closed eyes in order to deepen their senses of inner stability.
All in all it was an interesting meeting.
We volunteers could also contribute through preparing the technical devices and taking plenty of pictures.
To see all the pictures go into our gallery!
