Gerds Event is less than one month away! Check out what he has to say about FLEXIBILITY and sign up on our website today! In my many years working as a Son-Rise Program Teacher with the most diverse levels of Autism and the most wonderfully unique children all over the world, one area of development seems to generate many questions. One of our 4 fundamentals in the Son-Rise Program Developmental Model is FLEXIBILITY. It is designed to help children on the autism spectrum to become less rigid/controlling and more flexible within all areas of activities, interactions, limits & boundaries, their relationships with people and their environment. When it comes to the question of how we encourage our children to be more flexible, I would like to share one particular perspective on this question. How about role modeling to the child that we are the most flexible creatures in the world and that we have fun, that we feel excited being flexible with no strings attached? So, the next time you go into the playroom after perhaps spending hours having prepared the most amazing game you wanted to introduce to your child and he/she just doesn’t show any interest (yet), or he/she takes the props/objects away from you immediately, or gives you a clear “no”, show your child YOUR flexibility by letting go of your intentions and totally going with your child. You might be able to get back to your intended game/activity later, but your happiness is in no way attached to any outcome. You can let go with ease, feeling really good about yourself having given it your all presenting the game with full 3 E’s and that you TRUST IN YOUR CHILD, that he/she will either get interested in it later, or not at all, or will turn the game into something completely different. How flexible can YOU be? Can you role model to your child that being flexible is one of the most exciting things in the world? Flexibility is often the last straw of Autism that the children are holding on to. Help them to let go and trust… by you letting go and trusting first… in the most compelling, inviting, inspiring way, wholeheartedly…with not a glimmer of unhappiness attached to the outcome. Have fun with it! Gerd Winkler https://facebook/events/266060416937472/
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 05:16:07 +0000
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