Engaged parents and a good atmosphere at motivation lecture in Birkenes, November 2018

Øyvind Mellem for the administration in Birkenes give thanks to John Petter Fagerhaug for a great lecture.

Wednesday 28. November Birkenes-parents filled the blackbox at Valstrand cultural arena to listen to psychologist John Petter Fagerhaug talk about motivation and life mastery in school. It was both inspiring and engaging to hear about how one can work with changing thoughts and patterns to experience more joy and motivation in the everyday, and parents contributed with a lot of good comments that Fagerhaug could «play around with». This was some of his message, that it is important to be able to «play around with» thoughts and perceptions. This was a new type of setting for the psychologist in our project, giving a lecture to parents with a focus on motivation work for children and youths, and we were curious about how the message would be received. Judging from the response, this was very successful, and something we hope to do more in our project.

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