Healing the Heart of Education | Facing the Moment | Episode 12

Описание: In this conversation of Facing the Moment, Toufic Hakim speaks with Joanna Curry-Sartori about the mounting emotional and systemic pressures facing schools today and the everyday practices that can restore connection, safety, and learning. Joanna draws on decades of clinical and school-based experience to name how fear, polarization, technology, and pandemic aftershocks are reshaping classrooms, parent-teacher dynamics, and students’ inner lives. She introduces the practical PAUSE framework, a flexible, scalable process for pausing, connecting, and responding with self-leadership and shares concrete stories of teachers and schools who have shifted their culture through micro-practices of presence. This episode is for educators, parents, counselors, and anyone who cares about the future of schooling and the well-being of young people.

01:30 The crisis in our schools, what’s at stake
01:50 Joanna Curry-Sartori, LMFT, background & work with schools
05:18 What’s really happening on the ground, disconnection and community breakdown
10:30 Educator’s overwhelm
13:17 Parents under pressure
17:07 Students’ experience
26:54 Systems thinking: culture, invisible rules, and the fabric of school life
27:55 Behavior vs. groundedness
33:38 What ideal classrooms look like
33:50 The PAUSE model
42:40 PAUSE step-by-step: Pause → Aware → Understand → Search → Experiment
49:48 Real outcomes: teacher well-being, fewer escalations, ripple effects at home
52:19 Examples & anecdotes: classroom transformations and community repair
56:04 One small step educators/parents can take tomorrow
59:11 What a self-led school community looks like

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