October 12, 2020
Episode 6

We Are Wired for Connection

Featuring: Dr. Jody Carrington, Psychologist, Author, Speaker

Featured Guests

  • Dr. Jody Carrington

    Psychologist, Author, Speaker

    Dr. Jody Carrington is a Clinical Psychologist who has spent most of her career working with children and families who have experienced trauma. Today, she runs a private practice while speaking around the country about relationships, connection and her new book, “Kids These Days: A Game Plan For (Re)Connecting With Those We Teach, Lead & Love”.

Connections are the foundation upon which we educate. Learn from a psychologist about why they are so powerful and the policies, structures and personal biases that are driving disconnection.

Show Notes:

  • 3:05Where Jody’s passion for connections came from.
  • 5:20A time and a place for strategies.
  • 7:30Remembering why we do this work as educators.
  • 9:30We are all just walking each other home.
  • 11:20Connect before you direct.
  • 12:30The practices and policies in schools that drive disconnection.
  • 17:15The ACEs research on trauma and the childhood benevolence scale.
  • 21:00Checking our biases.
  • 25:15Implicit bias & cultural sensitivity.
  • 28:35Leaning into the emotional experience of discomfort.
  • 31:34Relationship knows no hierarchy.
  • 34:16Having conversations and starting a movement.

Significant Quotes:

You may not end up having a beautiful relationship with the kid you actually influence the most. The ones who need it the most are the hardest to give it to.

Dr. Jody Carrington
20:20

The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it’s connection. It’s understanding.

Dr. Jody Carrington
29:30

Relationship knows no hierarchy. Don’t ever underestimate your power.

Dr. Jody Carrington
32:14

Big people and little people operate very much the same, we are often as educators, much better with little people. We often forget that with the people on our staff, the hardest people to give it to are also the ones who need it the most.

Dr. Jody Carrington
32:42

You don’t start with the haters, you start with the people who are interested in having those conversations and you build a movement.

Dr. Jody Carrington
34:17

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