Glasser Climbs In

During my first steps into the teaching profession I had a wise principal named Judy Wells. She led the staff through some training by William Glasser. I was even certified in the Basics of Reality Therapy under her leadership. Today something nagged at me to look back into the books I read back then... here is what I found:

From CONTROL THEORY 1984
Chapter 1: Everything We Think, Do, and Feel is Generated by What Happens Inside of Us.This is really like Covey's first Habit- "What moves you to act is inside, not outside, of yourself. Nothing we do is caused by what happens outside of us." I also see shades of Senge's "Personal Mastery" in this chapter.

Chapter 3: The Pictures in Our Heads
This reminds me of what Senge calls "Mental Models". "We begin to create what is best described as a picture album in our heads... a personal picture album... I like to use the word pictures rather than the technically correct term, perceptions... it is not the same as memory... when we change important pictures, we change our lives... it is not easy to change our own pictures... we have to replace it with another- this can be done through negotiation and compromise."
I wonder if this negotiation is similar to reflection & analysis. If so then we could look at the work in Baldrige as a way to impact our personal picture albums (or mental models).