CONGRATULATIONS TO TRIM YOUTHREACH

Friday 5th March is an incredibly significant landmark in Irish education.  It is that day that an education centre declares itself as in full flight as a Glasser Quality School.  This is not a spur-of-the-moment thing for Youthreach Trim Quality Centre of Education but something that has taken years to put into place.  There is firm evidence of its success in the well-nigh 100% attendance record and the joyful atmosphere of learning that pervades the centre, obvious even to the casual visitor.

The Glasser Quality School approach represents a radical change from traditional education.  Fortunately many elements of the approach are to be found with increasing frequency in mainstream education and have been the unwritten philosophy of the marvellous Youthreach Centres and Community Training Workshops that are dotted around the country.

Today we celebrate with the students of Trim, their parents, community, teachers and the management of Co. Meath V.E.C.  Today is not the end of the process but the celebration of firm foundations and firm commitment.  Like any good relationship that between students and staff will be reworked every day, constantly assessing new factors and working together in a powerful spirit of collaboration.

The William Glasser Institute Ireland is a non-profit making body established in 1989 to help plan and co-ordinate courses in Reality Therapy, Choice Theory, Quality School Education, Lead Management and Mental Well-being. Our goal is to help people improve the quality of their personal lives and relationships through the promotion and teaching of Choice Theory.

Choice Theory is a new explanation of human behaviour. It challenges many traditional views about human behaviour:

• how we live our lives
• how we relate to others
• how we interpret "mental illness"
• how we understand education
• how we view management

 Learning Choice Theory can give a whole new perspective on life:

• new ways to live our lives
• more satisfactory ways to deal with the relationships in our lives
• a deeper and more hopeful understanding of mental distress
• an alternative to many of the destructive practices in education
• a more satisfactory and productive approach to management

For these reasons our courses have a broad appeal as they can help people at an individual level as well as in relationships (partners, children, students, workers).