Talking Emotions
Talking Emotions is a podcast centered on exploring theory, research, and practice on the importance of emotional growth. This podcast is for teenagers, young adults, and parents and mental health providers that support them. The goal is to explore important ideas to improve interpersonal relationships and personal well being.
To suggest ideas for new episodes on Talking Emotions visit the website: https://present-mind.org/podcast/
Talking Emotions
E36: Growing Comfort with Failure w/ Drea Gallaga (In-Practice)
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In this In Practice Episode, Drea Gallaga explores the benefits of failure, expanding on her years of running an entrepreneurship high school class. She talks hardships and successes, and the power of vulnerability to grow comfort with failure!
Drea Gallaga is currently the director of the Live+Serve Lab at North Shore Country Day School, where she has also spent over two decades as an upper school humanities teacher. The Live+Serve Lab is a JK-12th grade space that combines service and innovation to help students and teachers connect classroom learning to the real world; Drea works with colleagues and students to support projects in service learning, creative and design thinking, community engagement, and more. Drea has a lifelong and deep interest in the power of community, an interest furthered by being an educator, making music with others, and immersion in both Quakerism and Buddhism. She aspires to participate in and contribute to communities that are authentic, accountable, and hopeful, and that uplift young people and their contributions.
To learn more about Drea:
Email: dgallaga@nscds.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drea-gallaga-b1a37445
Timestamps:
2:50 – Personal Story – How Drea found failure
5:00 – Concept – Why talking about failure is important
12:00 – Idea – What failure looks like in class
18:00 – Concept – The core of failure is vulnerability
18:00 – Research – Concept: Vulnerability Paradox. Book. Daring greatly: How the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead. (Brown, 2012)
19:00 – Adult Strategy – Modeling Failure
20:00 – Idea – Hardships for acknowledging failure
21:00 – Concept – How students define failure?
31:00 – Personal Strategy – Debunking Perfection
36:00 – Parent Strategy – Offering Perspective
38:00 – Parent Strategy – Practice Failure in Safety
39:50 – Favorite Failure – Worth Connected to How Hard Working
Special thanks to musical artists:
Psalm Trees: https://psalmtreesbeats.bandcamp.com/
Josh Jacobs: https://josephjacobsmusic.bandcamp.com/music
To provide suggestions for new topics in future episodes, visit:
present-mind.org/podcast