THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE

Friday, September 3, 2010. Today I am grateful for the wind, the rain, the sunshine, the storm.

Thursday, September 2, 2010. Today I am grateful I had the opportunity, back in about 2001, to visit New Zealand from Tonga, where I was facilitating higher student achievement by showing teachers the “Strategies to Inspire Active Learning,” by Dr. Merrill Harmin.

One of the stunning lakes in New Zealand’s South Island.  Nov 2003

Image from: http://www.gratitude-rocks.com/pic-accept,feellight.html

I am so grateful for Nature’s inspiration to us daily, even if it is storming.

I hope I always have the humility to always keep learning from Nature’s inspiration, and from energizing people who live close to Nature’s example, such as Dr. Harmin and Grace Pilon, the great innovator of “Workshop Way” (TM).

Doc Meek, Thursday, September 2, 2010, at Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist http://www.docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Wednesday, September 1, 2010. Today I am grateful for being able to feel appreciation. Appreciation for family, friends, the whole wide world. There is much good in it, despite the desecrating turmoils.

Doc Meek, Wednesday, September 1, 2010, at Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist http://www.docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Tuesday, August 32, 2010. Today I am grateful for the bumblebee. Aeronautical engineers have determined that it cannot fly. Its wings are too far forward and too small and the resultant weight and balance problem means it would fall to the earth, backwards, if it attempted to fly. Here’s the good news! No one told the bumblebee!

Videos for bumble bee song

Bumble Bee 3 min – 18 Apr 2006 Uploaded by MidnightMoonlight www.youtube.com

I have taught new and seasoned teachers who are trying to learn new ways of helping kids to learn more successfully: “Go into your fear and just bumble through. Persist. You’ll feel foolish at first and fail at first. And then . . .  success.”

One teacher reported: “If Dr. Meek hadn’t told me I would fail [at first], I would not have kept trying. My class failure rate has gone from way high to way low in just one year’s time.”

Here’s to bumbling, persisting in the face of failure, and learning new ways along with our students and children!

Doc Meek, Tuesday, August 31, 2010, at Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

P.S. Thank you Anita [my older sister] for preparing a family dinner today for the extended family! I am grateful for you and your service to the whole family and to many other people as well, over many years.

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist http://www.docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Monday, August 30, 2010. I am grateful today for people who can enjoy self-deprecating humor. Abraham Lincoln once said (when accused of being “two-faced”): “I submit, if I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?”

Esther Hicks (aka “Abraham”) and her husband, Jerry Hicks, travel extensively and lecture about “The Law of Attraction.” In the following video, Esther’s voice-over is spoofing about their work, their books, their advice:

“Get Happy” video from:  http://www.lawofattractioninteraction.com/

Get Happy

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To all those who can laugh at themselves!

Doc Meek, Monday, August 30, 2010, at Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist http://www.docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Friday, August 27, 2010. “Today I am grateful for the healing power of humor and laughter.” – Doc Meek

“A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” – William Arthur Ward

Image above, and article below, from: http://jameswoodward.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/laughter/

Laughter
An extract from H. A. Williams’ book Tensions, Necessary Conflicts in Life and Love

God, we believe, accepts us, accepts all men, unconditionally, warts and all. Laughter is the purest form of our response to God’s acceptance of us. For when I laugh at myself I accept myself and when I laugh at other people in genuine mirth I accept them. Self acceptance in laughter is the very opposite of self accusation or pride. For in laughter I accept myself not because I’m some sort of super-person, but precisely because I’m not.

There is nothing funny about a super-person. There is everything funny about a man who thinks he is.

In laughing at my own claims to importance or regard I receive myself in a sort of loving forgiveness which is an echo of God’s forgiveness of me. In much conventional contrition there is a selfishness and pride which are scarcely hidden. In our desperate self concern we blame ourselves for not being the super persons we think we really are. But in laughter we set light to ourselves. That is why laughter is the purest form of our response to God.

Whether or not the great saints were capable of levitation, I have not the evidence to decide. What I do know is that a characteristic of the great saints is their power of levity. For to set light to yourself is true humility.

Pride cannot rise to levity. As G.K. Chesterton said, pride is the downward drag of all things into an easy solemnity. It would seem that a heavy seriousness is as natural to man as falling. ‘It was by the force of gravity that Satan fell.’

Laughter, on the other hand, is a sign of grace.

“Women laugh seven more times a day than men and live seven years longer. (Tell us something?)”

“Here’s to those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall see God.” – Doc Meek

Doc Meek, Friday, August 27, 2010, at Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist http://www.docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Thursday, August 26, 2010. Today I am grateful that I can have feelings of gratitude. I am grateful that I am able to smile at myself, and even laugh on occasion.

“Calavin & Hobbs” laughter image from: http://natalieshell.com/2007/01/26/doctors-prescribe-laughter/

1. Natalie Shell Says:
   March 2nd, 2007 at 5:45 am Another story -
   19th Century teaching of Rabbi Bunim, who said that each of us should walk with a slip of paper in our left and right pockets. One paper should contain the phrase from the Talmud, “All of heaven and earth was created for me.” On the other should be written Abraham’s refrain from Genesis: “I am but dust and ashes.”

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2. Natalie Shell: think talk walk » Blog Archive » Perhaps it is time to REALLY laugh? Says:
   June 1st, 2007 at 5:21 pm [...] to take it from me – all sorts of people including Buddha and that Doctor in India recommend [laughter]. Sholom Aliechem recommends it. And I believe there is a story of man who laughed himself to health from cancer [...]
3. “Thank you, Natalie Shell!” – Doc Meek ………………………………………………………………………

There was a time in my life when I was over-focused on problems, complaints, and difficulties, and did not understand that I had many things for which to be grateful.

I needed to learn to take myself less seriously and make my own happiness. I am still working on that.:o

My wife Jeannette has mastered the art of being happy, even in adverse circumstances, long ago. I have a long ways to go to catch up with her. I may never catch up!

I am grateful for my wife Jeannette.

Here’s to self-involvement in our own learning about how to smile at ourselves, and even laugh at ourselves . . .  gently.

Doc Meek, Thursday, August 26, 2010, at Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist http://www.docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Thursday, August 26, 2010. I am grateful the Facebook Team invited me to listen to McKendry’s “Rediscovering Learning as Your Fountain of Youth.”

McKendry in “Rediscovering Learning as Your Fountain of Youth” Friday, August 27 at 7:00pm Location: A SIP PODCAST @ http://www.facebook.com/l/b961a;www.blogtalkradio.com/spiritualimageproductions

http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=139228539452107&mid=2deba12G2508f1feG52fa96fG7&n_m=docmeek%40gmail.com

I hope that all parents and teachers and children and students will be open to learning as a way of life for all of life! Let’s keep us all young, mind and body!

Doc Meek, Thursday, August 26, 2010, at Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

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J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist http://www.docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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Wednesday, August 25, 2010. I am grateful to discover that Edmonton REALTORS have supported the e4c school lunch program in Edmonton for many years:  http://www.realtorscommunityfoundation.com/e4c-school-lunch-program

Since 1997 the REALTORS® Community Foundation has provided over $534,000 to feed hungry school children in Edmonton…

Through the years the REALTORS® Community Foundation supported E4C’s School Lunch Program through various fundraising activities such as the Ride for KIDS and the Goldstick Relay. REALTORS® Bessie Goldstick and Sid Vander Meulen also helped raise funds for the school lunch program, collectively raising close to $100,000!

Part of the mission of the REALTORS® Community Foundation is to support charities involved in homelessness, hunger and crime prevention. It would appear we have done our part!

All about Bessie Goldstick…

A lady the REALTORS® Community Foundation holds very dear is REALTOR® Bessie Goldstick. Through Bessie’s tireless efforts she has raised over $50,000 in support of E4C’s School Lunch Program.

If you have a chance to chat with Bessie she will enlighten you with the fact that there are over 2,300 students in 12 schools are presently involved in E4C’s School Lunch Program. Bessie believes that every child deserves to be fed and nourished because it is hard to concentrate on learning when you are hungry. Bessie says, “Children don’t know how to ask for help, so I ask for them”!

Tuesday, August 24, 2010. Today I saw a sign on a bus in Edmonton:

“HUNGER MAKES LEARNING HARDER,” put there by http://www.e4calberta.org/eslp.html

I am grateful for people who try to see to it that children don’t have to be in school hungry.

I’ve taught for years: “Proper nutrition makes learning easier.”

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Please join us for the final presentation in the Edmonton Speaker Series

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March 13, 2010 marked 40 years of E4C serving this community.

During the past 40 years we have worked tirelessly for our community – working with people to meet their basic needs, build on their strengths and move towards a better life. Our vital, innovative programs help families and individuals of all ages, backgrounds and life situations.

Throughout our years of service we have gained the trust of people in need, neighborhoods and the community at large. This includes many people who have supported our efforts to build better communities through their volunteer work in our programs and/or through their financial support. We are indebted to and value the partnerships we have built with all who have joined with us over the years.

E4C is one of the most diverse organizations in Canada. We provide a broad range of services, working with children, youth, adults, families and seniors. We provide education, job training, shelter, affordable housing, nutritional services and much, much more. Our work is focused on building competency and strength in individuals, families and neighborhoods.

Throughout 2010, and into the future we will continue to grow and apply the lessons we have learned to confront the serious problems facing our community and to look for new and innovative ways to create opportunities for lasting change.

We invite you to join us in making a better world and a safer, stronger community.
To watch our new E4C Anniversary videos please click the links below:

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All E4C programs are guided by our belief that everyone is entitled to a full measure of dignity, respect and compassion. Together with our program participants and our partners, we are building positive, vital lives for individuals, families and communities.

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Thank you e4c!

Here’s to caring for the belly and the mind!

Doc Meek, Tuesday, August 24, 2010, at Sherwood Park, Alberta, CANADA

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J. Collins Meek, Ph.D. (Doc Meek)
“What if you are smarter than you think?”
Learning Specialist http://www.docmeek.com

For brain health, ensure heart health (short video):
http://www.amiraclemolecule.com/themeekteam
More on heart health http://www.themeekteam.info
Ph (801) 971-1812 (Jeannette); Fax [801] 282-6026

THE LEARNING CLINIC WORLDWIDE, INC.
CANADA: P.O. Box 3105, Sherwood Park, AB T8H 2T1
TONGA: Mele Taumoepeau, P.O. Box 60, Nuku’alofa
USA: 3688 W 9800 S, #138, South Jordan, UT 84095

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