A Joyful Place
An Education and Family Resource Centre

Family, Adolescent and Educational Counselling
Dr. Marilyn Robb Ph.D.
Educational Consultant/Family Counsellor

Marilyn has created A Joyful Place to help you reclaim your joy of life, love, laughter and learning through emotional healing.
A Joyful Place offers services for individuals, groups and organizations


Personal and Family Counselling
A Joyful Place offers face-to-face and online sessions especially related to-: adolescent issues, family and parenting issues and relationships.Call for an appointment-(868)-221-8890
Visit my virtual counselling office at www.liveperson.com/marilynrobb for online counselling sessions.


Educational Consulting
Consulting services include workshops, professional development sessions and training, and on-going counselling and support for teachers, administrators, parents and student. Workshops and training sessions include:

Emotional Intelligence for Parenting
Emotional Intelligence for Teaching
Social and Emotional Learning in the classroom
Classroom Management/ Motivating Students
Understanding Child Development
Helping Your Child Through School

Workshops and training sessions are of different formats and time frames. Special arrangements can be made to have these workshops and training sessions presented at your organisation. Or you can have a workshop tailored to your organization's needs.

Phone:(868)-221-8890
email: joyfulplace@yahoo.com
website: www.ajoyfulplace.webs.com

More on plagiarism

Here is another recent article on plagiarism. This topic will live on perhaps for as long as the internet exists. It may also increase in complexity just as technology is becoming more and more intricate. Sometimes I think we are tying ourselves into technological knots, and we lose the ability to extricate ourselves.
But read the article and judge for yourself.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/education/02cheat.html

Listening to the Dalai Lama

I had the honour and privilege to attend a talk given by the Dalai Lama last Saturday at the Bell Centre in downtown Montreal. I was struck by his relaxed presence, his ease of talking to a crowd of 15,000 people and his playful attitude. Yet his message was powerful.

Some of the things he said that resonated with me included:

ü That we are all born with the same potential.

ü A more compassionate mind sustains the body’s immune system.

ü Too much anger affects the immune system.

ü When the mind is not settled, i.e. too much emotion stirred up then it is hard to think.

ü An experiment done with monkeys showed that those that were separated from their mothers were always in a bad mood and fought a lot.

ü A presentation at a seminar pointed out that people who used words like me, I, mine a lot were at higher risk of heart attack.

ü The most important factor for friendship is internal beauty not external beauty.

ü We are social beings and need a force to bring us together- that force is compassion.

ü The real cause of loneliness is anger, suspicion and distrust.

ü One element of compassion is recognizing that every one has an equal right to a happy life.

ü Real test of compassion is when you can extend it to an enemy.

He outlined the levels of compassion and talked about ways to extend this to all levels- individual, community, national and global. One day he was wondering about what is this global economic crisis about and he asked his friends to explain it to him. What he understood from them was that it was about greed and speculation.

It was indeed a special experience for me to be in that crowd and listen to the Dalai Lama talk so serenely about such an emotional topic. But the best part was that it was like hearing someone confirm my own thoughts and philosophies. All through the event I was being reminded of the values with which I promised to live my own life and convinced that I was on the right path.

Online Class

I have a new online class at LVS Online-
Understanding and Helping the Special Needs Child.

New session is starting soon.
Registration for the November 2009 session is open at LVS Online ~ Where Learning Is Fun!
For more information, go to http://lvsonline.com/update

Remember that returning students receive a 20% discount!

Receive a $5 voucher for EACH new student you refer to LVS! Advise referrals
to mention your name and email address in their registration form!
http://www.lvsonline.com/refer.shtml

Instructor-led classes begin October 31st. There is limited seating
So head on over to LVS Online to enroll now!
http://www.lvsassociates.com/register/