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A person at work
Every educator knows the feeling. You get home after a big day, sit down, and realise you're still carrying the problems of the day with you. You've been home for an hour and you're still at work. We spend a lot of time talking about how educators should treat students: with warmth, patience and what Carl Rogers called unconditional positive regard. But what we see in our work at Greater Space is that once staff have acted that way for students, they feel as if there isn't a
Benji Gersh
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AEUnews - 12 December, 2021
The mental toll of teaching in a pandemic https://news.aeuvic.asn.au/in-depth/the-mental-toll-of-teaching-in-a-pandemic/ Benji was...
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Missing Pieces
It happened again. I just finished reading another trauma-informed education piece that proposes treating students with unconditional...
Benji Gersh
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Dumbo Feather - 30 October, 2021
https://www.dumbofeather.com/articles/shaking-off-the-flies/ "By acknowledging that educators (and all professionals) are not just...
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Australian Jewish News - 28 October, 2021
A profile of Ben & Benji in the Australian Jewish News
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Building Bricks
After many years of serious illness, relapse and recovery making sense of my experience has not always been easy. At times it has been...
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Aug 16, 20224 min read


Holding Complexity
There are lots of clichés out there about our mental health. The cliches exist because there are certain things that we know are good for...
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Aug 16, 20224 min read
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