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Roxanne Matthews's avatar

I love this James. Like you say, simplifying can be so helpful as long as you know that’s what you’re doing. As a forest schooler, I’m very familiar with this sort of holistic breakdown. I’d love to see spiritual in there though, bc for us, it dovetails with relational; relationship with self, with others (human and more than human), being mindful, being connected. Without that, it’s also so difficult to learn, I think. Has to stop somewhere, I totally get it, but I always measure those 6.

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Xanadan's avatar

Its an interesting framework and its strange to think but it might actually be controversial!

A lot of the discourse I see online (I know, I shouldn't go there) actually tells kids there is no excuses for the physical, emotional, behavioural and relational elements and they need to suck it up, sit up straight and learn, no excuses.

Now these places tend to get great results, so there may be some pushback to your model.

Anyway, they are easy to trigger, so you can have some free publicity for your book if you want!

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