Greg teams up with journalist to write a book.
Greg has teamed up with journalist, writer, author of several books and professional speaker, Monica Troughton (having once even shared a stage with Uri Geller and Deepak Chopra) to collaborate on the writing of a series of insightful books that support the personal and professional development of teenagers.
Monica, a teacher with 15 years experience, still operates in schools but as a facilitator, helping teenagers grasp a sense of the power of silence, getting them to listen to not only each other, but to their own inner voice, and exploring their own imaginative processes.
Their first book is being written as a novel and has powerful key core developmental messages embedded within it.
An example?
That we all have the ability to control our thoughts. And if you wish to go to the level of thought, you must remain silent for even good worthy speech can lose the impact of undiluted thought. Whatever a person thinks – this is where she or he is at.
Well firstly we want teenagers to become more aware of their hidden talents.
What might be a hidden talent?
A very useful hidden talent is to spot chaos and to be able to run away from it – but not run away from challenges. Difficult challenges help create miracles.
Secondly we want them to be able to identify excellent role models inside of their environment.
What is an excellent ‘role model’?
An excellent role model is someone who ‘allows’. Those prepared to change and realise that change, uncomfortable as it is, takes us all from ground zero straight to level one. Role models who do something way beyond their own natural tendencies and go the extra mile to find the diamonds. Control freaks do not make excellent role models. An excellent role model never gives up, is 100% committed to creating some muscle that will create miracles. Teenagers with good, clear, elevated teachers observe the bigger picture and become excited by personal transformation.
Thirdly we want teenagers to be able to notice individual supportive patterns of behaviour and repeat them.
What’s this then?
It can, in part be linked to discovering ways of combining thought with feeling, of analysis with intuition. The aspects of teenagers to do with being aesthetically and spiritually aware, being stable, honest, sensitive and compassionate. being able to articulate feelings and understanding the nature of giving. The value of self discipline, how to study, how to think, concentrate and how to deal with distraction.
Fourthly we will draw attention to unsupportive patterns and identify new ways of approaching them.
What’s this?
Intellectual and physical laziness that keep teenagers tucked up in comfort zones.
Fifthly we aim to teach teenagers emotional recovery strategies that will be helpful during their daily lives.
Stuff they can do at school, at work, and at home and for the rest of their lives. Resisting the desire to fix emotional pain is good, and instead accept pain as an indicator of what needs to change.
We will empower this group with a greater belief in their own natural potential.
Maybe mum and dad will find it useful too!
A story to keep the most difficult of kids alert and awake. Nothing at school will ever seem to be the same again.
Final musings…We know much more than we can imagine or think we know. So we too will stand back, trusting that all is well.