{"id":4206,"date":"2018-06-18T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T17:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4youth.gr\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2018-07-30T11:24:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:24:03","slug":"dealing-with-anger-presentation-2nd-primary-school-vrontados","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4youth.gr\/index.php\/2018\/06\/18\/dealing-with-anger-presentation-2nd-primary-school-vrontados\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with Anger presentation – 2nd primary school Vrontados"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 23.05.18 a psychologist, the mother of a child of second primary school of Vrontados, came to school in the evening.<\/p>\n

In the school library she gave a presentation about a topic which was interesting for both, parents and children.<\/p>\n

Initially it was more theoretical.
\nShe tried to explain how to deal with negative emotions, in specific anger, in the best way.
\nBased on a powerpoint presentation she pointed out, that there are two complementary parts of the brain.
\nOne part is more thoughtful and rational and one part is more impulsive, emotional.
\nRespectively 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.
\nIf someone was just in his head and could not feel emotions he would tend to be lethargic.
\nBut 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.<\/p>\n

What I appreciated very much was, that the psychologist showed also many pictures.
\nFor example one metaphoric picture depicted an ice berg.
\nThe upper part of the ice berg was above the water surface and there was written the keyword anger.
\nBeing maybe five times bigger than the top the bottom part of the Ice berg contained many many other “negative” feelings.
\nThe obvious interpretation of this was, that there can be many causes for anger.
\nSome people get angry when they are jealous, some when they are lonely and other because they are afraid of something or someone.
\nThe difficulty is, that most of the times you can only see the anger, but not the actual origin of this emotion.
\nWith this knowledge however, you can now try to understand the person instead of judging him\/ her for the always bad mood.<\/p>\n

The other big part was more practical.
\nShe gave practical advice and methods concerning dealing with anger, especially suited for children.
\nAs some children got invited to try a couple of her methods the audience got engaged too.<\/p>\n

One of her tips was to give the children spices to smell.
\nThe sweet smell of cinnamon for instance reminds the children, but also the grown ups of christmas, so that we calm down more easily.
\nAlso she presented and demonstrated breathing methods supposed to simplify the process of relaxing.
\nIn 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.<\/p>\n

All in all it was an interesting meeting.
\nWe volunteers could also contribute through preparing the technical devices and taking plenty of pictures.<\/p>\n