Giving & Getting Thanks (Strokes)
Dear teachers, school staff, childminders, how are you doing?
As part of our #thankyouteachers campaign, each Friday until half-term, we are providing you free, one of the tools from our Schools' Mark kit to help you to deal with the challenges you face while continuing to be useful & kind and inspiring our children.
When we were little and before we had language, we partly got our needs met by being ‘stroked’, touched or held and we developed an understanding of how to be in the world by responding to the myriad messages we were given from authority figures and this developed when we knew what they were saying to us. The French American psychologist (Transactional Analysis) Claude Steiner used this idea to describe a way of thinking about the kind of feedback we give and get and he called them ‘strokes’.
Here is a quick tool to help you check in with yourself.
This tool will help you to:
understand how you give and receive feedback (strokes)
how you and others respond to feedback (strokes)
develop your self-awareness and awareness of others
improve your relationships
Ready to give it a go?
Download the working PDF by completing the form below.
More help?
You might also like to read our help with Behaviour Change tool which will help you understand how to make the changes you want to see for yourself, others and the world.