Have a Go Spaghettio! teaches children that something about them,
'good' or 'bad' doesn't define them in a global sense. Yet, they/we
learn to abstract something, be it a competency or quality, from the
many that constitute the 'self' under construction, and decide it 'is' us,
we are it! Hence, children can start to think of themselves as
good/bad, cute, dumb, ugly etc. Emotional and behavioural upset
experienced by the young child, according to Rational Emotive
Behaviour Therapy theory, on which Have a Go Spaghettio! is based,
is linked to irrational, Brain Bully/Success Stopper thinking.
The belief we can be dumb/smart etc. is what General Semantics
calls a 'semantic disturbance,' where the persons upset is caused by
mis interpretations, mis perceptions.
Brain Friend thinking is taught via the Have a Go Spaghettio!
approach to social and emotional well-being which says the person
cannot 'be' a word ascribed them by themselves of by others. This is
'I'm worthwhile crocodile' thinking/believing or unconditional self-
acceptance as described by Dr Albert Ellis in his REBT theory.
Albert Ellis said the future of psychotherapy is in the school system
and Have a Go
Spaghettio! does that. The future is now!
Alfred Korzybski's quote below inspires these sentiments and influenced the work of Dr Ellis.
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