Carlson's cult was the subject of an episode of the Dr. Phil Show the prior year. It highlighted how Carlson told her followers she could repair people's brains and perform spiritual surgeries. It also described how Carlson said she would ascend to the 5th Dimension and that she had been reincarnated 534 times. She also claimed to have been Joan of Arc, Marilyn Monroe and Cleopatra. Love Has Won's unusual practices allegedly included standing for very long stretches of time without any sitting and getting a minimal amount of sleep.
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The episode speaks to an atmosphere at Facebook in which employees feel pressure to place the company above all else in their lives, fall in line with their manager's orders and force cordiality with their colleagues so they can advance. Several former employees likened the culture to a "cult."
This culture has contributed to the company's well-publicized wave of scandals over the last two years, such as governments spreading misinformation to try to influence elections and the misuse of private user data, according to many people who worked there during this period. They say Facebook might have have caught some of these problems sooner if employees were encouraged to deliver honest feedback. Amid these scandals, Facebook's share price fell nearly 30 percent in 2018 and nearly 40 percent since a peak in July, resulting in a loss of more than $252 billion in market capitalization.
I love your website and and content. I also have to agree with the comments posted about getting back into the classroom. As teachers, we could work 24 hours a day and never feel we are doing enough. I do the best that I can to create authentic learning experiences for my students, knowing that most likely I am failing them at some level. Also, I arrive to work everyday at 6:30 am and quite often sub on my prep. There are limitations to what we can feasibly accomplish. And the on top of that, my students are high risk and school is not their top priority. While I agree with what you are saying that it the students are failing to learn the fault mainly lies with me. But, as a middle and high school teacher, students also need to take responsibility for their learning as well. Missing assignments, phones in class, and behavior interruptions are daily. I can only do so much. I also have a husband, children, friends, and personal interests. Teaching is an important job and my personal life should also be meaningful. You left teaching when your children were born, therefore you know how hard it is to balance work and home life. We can only do so much and believe me, I am trying.
Until now I did not feel the urge to react, now I have to.
Do not go back to the classroom. We, teachers/coaches need you and your team to do all those things FOR US and OUR STUDENTS, since we do not have the time after school to do all that ourselves!!! We need your research, results, inspiration, good advice etc. We can choose from this rich input and we are allowed to use it!! You can do a lot more for a lot of people now, instead of going back to the classroom. And about being authentic? In every post you send I feel the real teacher behind the information and topics, a passion for teachers and students and education. Keep the good work going!
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Marjon
Over-documentation is a real struggle too. My Catholic school is being evaluated this year by the ministry and the Catholic school board. We are required to have detailed unit and day plans for EVERYTHING, with all the curriculum, religious ed and aboriginal perspectives links. Our consultant actually recommends teachers front-load all their lesson-planning at the beginning of the year. Saves on planning later, but how do we keep it flexible and responsive enough to student needs and interests in real-time? It feels like paperwork for the sake of paperwork sometimes.
I agree with your approach to teaching 100%. I also agree with the obstacles to good teaching that you listed. But there is another element to this equation that must be included in the discussion. That is the buy-in from students. In any project there are certain skills necessary. There is also a needed level of commitment on the part of the participants to make the project feasible, let alone successful. This means cooperation and effort on the part of the students. If you have 2 or 3 students who are a management challenge or who lack the basic skills needed, that is doable. But there is a threshold, that once crossed, make a project impossible.
I like what you said about kinesthetic work and how kids need to do something with their hands to really help them visualize a new thing or process. I imagine it helps to have something that is consistently effective for children, like play-doh. If my child were having difficulty staying on task, this might help with his education!
BAMFORD: Yeah. Well, I mean, I think every - I mean, with the - I think I put the definition at the beginning of the book of - that it's just a group of people with a unique set of beliefs. So I think sometimes I don't always realize when I'm adhering to a set of beliefs that are odd, you know, that not everybody is. You know, I think show business is definitely sort of a cult thing. I live in Los Angeles, and, you know, it's not questioned of, like, if your business calls, you do whatever they say, you know?
But, yeah, I've been in - have attended Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous, Al-Anon, which is for friends and family of alcoholics. I've been to Alcoholics Anonymous mostly just to their meetings just when I'm out of town, just as a place to go and see some - have some face-to-face - F-to-F - because I do believe - for me, anyways, this is how I use these groups - is it's cognitive behavioral therapy or just the healing eye contact of other individuals talking in a place that's authentic and trying to do something more positive with their lives. And it's also harm reduction. If I'm in my - in a church basement for 90 minutes, that's 90 minutes I won't be alone in a hotel room compulsively ordering nitro cold brew.
One thing that you've been very open about is your intrusive thoughts. I think you actually talked about it quite a bit the last time you were on the show with Terry. And basically, it's a form of OCD where these thoughts come into your head, and then they can be overwhelming because you ruminate on them, especially when you were younger and you were a child. You didn't have coping mechanisms. Can you describe it, that loop?
BAMFORD: So one of the one of the primary ways of treating it is exposure response prevention. So here's another intrusive thought. Like, sometimes people have a fear that they're going to hurt somebody, like push somebody into the subway. OK, so they never take the subway, and that's - all of a sudden, they've started avoiding all these things so that they make sure that they never push anybody to the subway, even though they've never done that before. They have no plans to do it. They - that's - desperately don't want to do that. So that's why they're even - maybe not even going out, maybe staying in their apartment so that they avoid hurting people. So one of the exposure response prevention things might be you go with your therapist to the subway. Your therapist stands in front of you on the subway platform, and then you just stand there. And you could push your therapist into the subway, but the whole thing is the realization that you don't.
BAMFORD: And that brought a whole slew of new other obsessions and fears. And it's kind of whatever is taboo in your culture, that's what you're going to be afraid of acting on. So if - there's religious obsessions, there's ethical obsessions. There's - one that's very common is with new mothers who have - that they're afraid they're going to hurt their baby.
MOSLEY: That's powerful, that it destroys the things you love, and your mind can't turn this off. So you have to find coping mechanisms 'cause I think to a certain extent, like, we've always heard that every thought we have is OK. Even the craziest, most insane thoughts are OK as long as you don't act on every thought. But if there's an intense fear that you're going to act on it, then it takes away your joy. People can talk to you about that 'cause you've opened the door with your intrusive thoughts. But - right? - these are not thoughts that we can just share with everyday people. Like, you have this lens into people's minds, you know?
BAMFORD: No. No. And you can get - yeah, be careful who you share intrusive thoughts with. If they have any - they need to have some OCD background therapy. I once was kept in the psych ward for 10 extra days because I tried to explain to the psychiatrist. He - the weekend psychiatrist had asked me - was like, oh, what's your history? And so I explained to him. And I was hypomanic. So I was kind of excited to explain to him what intrusive thoughts OCD was. And he was like, no, you're a danger to others. And so he locked me down for 10 days. Also, I went to a therapist who did not have any experience with OCD, and I basically paid her 75 bucks to call the police. She cashed that check, and the cops didn't come 'cause we're in Los Angeles and they're too busy. But, yeah, so it's not always - people can be very frightened or disturbed by you sharing something...
BAMFORD: Yeah. I think it's about actually asking, you know? Like, I mean, if you really genuinely are concerned about somebody, you can say - I know I get comments on YouTube - this is a cry for help - you know, and fair enough. I'm glad that they care, like - but I think - yeah, it's about asking 'cause I definitely - I just took a peer specialist training - a class through the Painted Brain here in Los Angeles, and you can train to be a peer specialist. It's usually 80 to 90 hours of training. All you need to have is lived experience with mental health or a drug or alcohol addiction. And there's many jobs that are available nationwide in these positions to help. It's a different experience from when they just call the cops. Now they call these psychiatric emergency teams. And so a peer specialist will often go with them or often answering suicide hotlines, et cetera. But that's something you can train to do in the - and it's a fairly good wage. So I like to tell people about that. I just got certified...
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