Containers of safety, and behavioural change

Tundra is helping me illustrate that there are different ways to help someone learn, or try, or do a wanted behaviour. Using the concept of one person as containing the heart, brain, and body centres of intelligence allows us to communicate with

each one separately. This can really strengthen the desired response! However, it is also so important when dealing with a new learning activity to build in the possibility of confusion, unexpected fear or defense reactions, and maybe just distractibility. Ensuring there are both physical and emotional containers of safety, as well as providing the cognitive safety of a consistent lesson (try not to change the rules mid-stream!) will all help the process be fun. Because really, the relationship is the point, not the tasks within it!