Creating Aha! Moments in the Clinic

by | Jul 16, 2012 | Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, Clinic, Creativity, Docere, Education, Exams, Motivation, Naturopathic Principles, NPLEX, Philosophy, Professional Development, Student, Teaching English as a Foreign Language

As a summer English as a Second Langauge (ESL) teacher I often attend teacher training workshops.  In a recent training session I attended, a grammar workshop, it was impressed upon us the importance of creating a learning environment in which we allow students to experience the language rule for themselves, rather than simply standing at the blackboard, teaching it to them.

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Spring Simplicity

Spring Simplicity

by | Jun 20, 2012 | Balance, Breath, Cleaning, Creativity, Emotions, Family, Finding yourself, Humour, Letting Go, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Organization, Philosophy, Self-care, Student, Summer, Toronto, Writing

A few days ago I was faced with the challenge of moving out of the third floor of Nonna’s house.  This meant that I was going to have to complete the impossible task of squeezing the entire contents of an apartment-sized room into my modest-sized childhood bedroom.

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“Eat Me”

by | Apr 10, 2012 | Art, Art Therapy, Balance, Creativity, Education, Exams, Finding yourself, Mindfulness, Motivation, Nature Cure, Naturopathic Philosophy

In Alice’s world there was a pill to make you smaller and another to make you taller.  In the world we live, however, we have pills that cover us for virtually everything – even racism.  My pharmacology group recently presented an article on how blood pressure medication reduced racial prejudice by 66%. (An aside:  perhaps more people should be on this medication.)

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