ARiSE Life Skills

Quote of the Day #70

Teri Richardson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:03:45 +0000

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.

- Toni Morrison

Quote of the Day #69

Teri Richardson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:36:17 +0000

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life’s affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion – of fun, love, or something that will outlast you – so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions.

- Destin Figuier

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420

You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière

Don’t wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau

Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. ~Jim Rohn

In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.com

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII

Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros

Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life’s affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion – of fun, love, or something that will outlast you – so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions. ~Destin Figuier

Could this be your child?

Michael Lynch — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:23:32 +0000

ARISE builds social and emotional fitness for the toughest kids on the planet.

Few, if any, evidence-based organizations have more documented experience than ARISE in educating violent youthful offenders in juvenile lockdown facilities. ARISE-trained staff facilitate interactive group sessions using the unique life-skills curriculum specifically designed for at-risk youth with learning and behavior problems. This is why positive outcomes can be guaranteed when the ARISE interactive curriculum and ARISE group facilitator training are implemented.

Quote of the Day #68

Teri Richardson — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:37:20 +0000

You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.

- Steven D. Woodhull

Quote of the Day #67

Teri Richardson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:27:48 +0000

Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.

- Henry David Thoreau

Quote of the Day #66

Teri Richardson — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:32:29 +0000

Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

Quote of the Day #65

Teri Richardson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:11:53 +0000

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

- Turkish Proverb

Quote of the Day #64

Teri Richardson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:08:25 +0000

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

- Saint Vincent de Paul

Quote of the Day #63

Teri Richardson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:38:59 +0000

He who has health has hope; and he who has hope has everything.

- Arabic Proverb

Message from Bermuda

Michael Lynch — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:31:32 +0000

Lucinda Worrell, was instrumental in bringing the ARISE program to Bermuda in 2007. An ARISE Master Trainer from the states trained 18 public school teachers as ARISE Group Facilitators. The following is a recent email printed below with permission from Ms. Worrell one of the most genuine and dedicated individuals we have ever met.

Here is what she had to say about the ARISE program:

I LOVE ARISE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THANKS FOR CREATING THIS PROGRAM.I AM HAPPY IN ARISE.YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW ARISE IS SO MUCH A PART OF MY LIFE.

I AM ALSO A GREAT INSTRUCTOR. I DONT NEED ANY ONE TO TELL ME. THE CHILDREN SHOW ME AND THAT’S WORTH MORE THAN MONEY. DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH?? HA

I was in the Hospital again. SO what new. This is a habit now. Had an operation on my stomach. Came out Yesterday. I am alive and thankful. Some people don’t have the luck I have with this disease. God doesn’t want me yet and hell is afraid of me. I am wonderful. I am truly blessed.

I never shared this with you. For over a year now I start and end every ARISE lesson with the following Poem. All the children must open and close our ARISE Lesson with this. IT goes like this.

Here I am
Look at me
I hope you like
The person you see
Well are all the same but different too
Learn from me and I will Learn from you

I am just so happy today and I want the world to know. Can’t work for the next 3 weeks. Seriously speaking. I am not too sick to teach an ARISE Lesson if they bring the kids to my house. ARISE gives me Life.

Kind Regards
Lucinda Worrell-Stowe
Po Box 188, Devonshire DV-BX, Bermuda