A campaign to teach students, teachers and parents to have
Mental and Emotional Fitness
Enhance Student Achievement, Student and Faculty Wellness
FREE Speaking and Training for Schools
There are four simple but important cognitive life skills we could and should be
teaching to all our young people that we currently are not.  The four simple but
important cognitive life skills are:

  1)  To have Unconditional Self-Acceptance (USA) and Other Acceptance
  2)  To have an Internal Locus of Control
  3)  To evaluate their own thoughts, feelings and actions
  4)  To recognize and correct irrational thinking in themselves and others
  5)  To approach any life event in a step-by-step fashion that allows them
       to get into the best possible cognitive and emotional place to make the
       healthiest possible choice for themselves and others
To learn more about these skills, why they're important, and how to teach them,
click on the tabs below
Page 2      The Problems. The Causes. The Solution
Page 3      Why Unconditional Self-Acceptance is Important
Page 4      Why Developing an Internal Locus of Control is so Important
Page 5      Recognizing Irrational Thinking
Page 6      Correcting Irrational Thinking
Page 7      The ABC Steps
Research has repeatedly shown that teaching people these life skills

   1)  Would free those young people who are to stop behaving in unhealthy
        and self-defeating ways
   2)  Would help all students get in the best cognitive and emotional place
        to better access and act on helpful health advice and information and
        make the healthiest possible choices both now and in the future
   3)  Would make students more ready, willing and able to learn, and able to
        function at levels they are capable of.  

It would give students, teacher and parents the mental and emotional fitness that
would be necessary or helpful to face any challenge in the future
                                     Available Program Titles

        1)   Raising Healthier, Happier and more Hopeful Children
       2)   Become Mentally and Emotional Fit - Teaching your Children to be
       3)   Teaching Resiliency Through Cognitive Restructuring
       4)   Increasing Student Achievement through Life Skills Training
       5)   Mental and Emotional Fitness for Students, Teachers and Parents
       6)   Preventing Tobacco, Alcohol and Drug Use and Abuse
       7)   Preventing Violence, Bullying and Other Problems
       8)   Help Young People make Healthier Choices with Sex and Relationships
       9)   Preventing Suicide in Young Adults
       10) Becoming a More Effective Parent / Teacher
       11) Eliminating the Daily Stresses of Being a Parent / Teacher
       12) Improving the Relationships in Your Life
       13) Eliminating Job Stress
       14) Feeling the Way You've Always Wanted to Feel
       15) Breaking Bad Habits - Starting to Behave in Healthier Ways
I am committed to encouraging the addition of these five important skills to the
education students now receive around our country, and encouraging the
paradigm shift that may need to occur in my fellow educators for that to happen.  
That's why I am currently willing to speak to teachers and students for FREE.  
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There are some important pluses to doing so:
 1)  Starting to teach these five skills would NOT require any new teachers,
      classes, or funds at a time when schools are struggling financially  
 2)  It would be the quickest, cheapest and most effective way to target and do    
       something about the underlying causes of so much that goes wrong  
 3)  It would be good for teachers and parents to learn and teach such skills.  
      It would make them more effective, reduce their stress, and improve         
      classroom and family harmony
B.S. Health Education
M.A. Curriculum and Instruction
Health Education Instructor 33 years
30 post-graduate hours in
Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy and Education
including the Primary Certification course
See page 8 for complete bio
Motivational-Educational Speaker
Ray Mathis

The ABC System of Cognitive, Emotional and Behavioral
Self-Management and Self-Improvement
Target the underlying causes of
Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Use and Abuse; Suicide
Violence, Intolerance, Bullying, Harassment; Obesity, Eating Disorders
Unintended Pregnancies, STDs; Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Anger Problems
Classroom and School Discipline Problems
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