Comments for Glasser Australia https://glasseraustralia.com Ignite the Power of Choice Tue, 26 May 2026 09:05:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Comment on FROM EXTERNAL CONTROL TO CHOICE THEORY AND SELF‑EVALUATION by Dave Smith https://glasseraustralia.com/from-external-control-to-choice-theory-and-self-evaluation/#comment-3621 Tue, 26 May 2026 09:05:32 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=15541#comment-3621 ). Many people have similar, if not as prominent, personal journeys with Choice Theory. Dave Smith (South Australia; one time Secretary, WGIA)]]> Excellent article John, thanks, (but you can self-evaluate that 👍).
Many people have similar, if not as prominent, personal journeys with Choice Theory.
Dave Smith
(South Australia; one time Secretary, WGIA)

]]> Comment on FROM EXTERNAL CONTROL TO CHOICE THEORY AND SELF‑EVALUATION by Ivan P Honey https://glasseraustralia.com/from-external-control-to-choice-theory-and-self-evaluation/#comment-3618 Tue, 26 May 2026 00:42:37 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=15541#comment-3618 Great article John; Thank you

]]> Comment on Simulation (How Emotions are Made) by Jane Newman https://glasseraustralia.com/simulation-how-emotions-are-made/#comment-3234 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:44:13 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=15458#comment-3234 Thanks for the informative video!

]]> Comment on Choice theory: Ellen Gelinas at TEDxVaughanWomen by Jane https://glasseraustralia.com/choice-theory-ellen-gelinas-at-tedxvaughanwomen/#comment-2601 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:46:50 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=15310#comment-2601 I love Ellen’s Tedx talk … was one of the first ones I ever watched on the topic!!! Highly recommend.

]]> Comment on A closer look at the Caring Habits by Jane Newman https://glasseraustralia.com/a-closer-look-at-the-caring-habits/#comment-2161 Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:40:17 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=15230#comment-2161 Thanks Sue,
What a powerful reminder of the transformative power of that single, conscious pause.
I especially appreciate your extension to self-care. That question “Am I being the self-caring person I really want to be?” feels like the missing piece for so many of us who may be kinder to others than we are to ourselves.
Thank you for this reminder that transformation can begin with one honest question.
With gratitude,
Jane

]]> Comment on Rethinking Behaviour: A Shift Towards Understanding, Not Judging by Gwen Sands https://glasseraustralia.com/rethinking-behaviour-a-shift-towards-understanding-not-judging/#comment-1905 Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:15:29 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=15207#comment-1905 Great article, Jane. Clear and succinct – a really good resource for sharing

]]> Comment on Involuntary Behaviour, Very Brief signal. by lizzie https://glasseraustralia.com/the-choice-theory-brain-chart-and-the-involuntary-behaviour-very-brief-signal/#comment-514 Sat, 28 Jun 2025 05:41:49 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=15064#comment-514 Thank you Gary. I found this very helpful and really appreciated the simplicity as well as bringing in examples to choosing thoughts and actions and the triggers.
I work in the trauma area thus the relationships with the survival brain was also useful. Thank you for your time and willingness to add value to our theory into practice.

]]> Comment on Involuntary Behaviour, Very Brief signal. by Glasser Australia Team https://glasseraustralia.com/the-choice-theory-brain-chart-and-the-involuntary-behaviour-very-brief-signal/#comment-513 Sat, 28 Jun 2025 01:30:12 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=15064#comment-513 In reply to Cath.

Thanks for your contribution to the conversation. We look forward to hearing more of your thoughts on this fascinating topic.

]]> Comment on Involuntary Behaviour, Very Brief signal. by Cath https://glasseraustralia.com/the-choice-theory-brain-chart-and-the-involuntary-behaviour-very-brief-signal/#comment-512 Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:54:30 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=15064#comment-512 Thanks for a very succint explanation of the involuntary signal, Gary. Noticing this ahha moment (positive or negative) and responding rather than reacting is so important!

]]> Comment on Perception and Reality – Cath Whalan  by marian Ruyter https://glasseraustralia.com/perception-and-reality-cath-whalan/#comment-60 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:57:08 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=14887#comment-60 Thank you Cath for sharing your thoughts on Perception. I recently attended a recorded, online workshop with Bessel van der Kolk. A big take away for me was the brain research he presents in the workshop, on how trauma effects the body, the brain. For me simply stated, how the emotional brain is highly fired up; after trauma, perceived trauma, neglect, abuse, and one can include continual critique, (maybe receiving controlling habits from another person?) and how this impacts on how one perceives the situation. The fired up right brain Emotional brain, causes the thinking brain, Per-frontal cortex, to be out of order, not thinking properly. So one is reacting. This is what Chris Argyris describes as well, the reaction, that we may hold our beliefs subconsciously. I interpreted Van der Kolk’s words as that our rational mind goes off-line, and we are then subject to the emotional response, often irrational, and from created habits and expectations from our warning, alert emotional system, as” it is happening again”, I cant handle it”, or other negative beliefs that come from the old experience. I do like how you quoted John Dewey: “we do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience’.. And then having the courage to make the decision, the choice, to reconnect with the rational, thinking mind, and respond using the caring habits, with focus on the quality of the relationship, from internal psychology.

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