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yayyayina 4& PAGE 10 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1991 If you will learn more about yourself, you will be delighted at what you find. Selfâ€"discovery is always rewarding, because you are better than you think you are! Geoff Fellows operates the Human Resource Development Institute. P.O. Box 642, Cambridge N1R 5W1, providing effectiveness training for business and industry. It was Dr. Maltz who said that: ‘"The greatest psychological discovery of this century is the discovery of the selfâ€"image." What do you know about yours? "For real selfâ€"esteem is not derived from the great things you have done, the things you own, or the mark you have made â€" but an appreciation of yourself for what you are." If you are lacking in this area, it‘s because you don‘t know who or what you really are. If you would like to ‘get it all together‘ and discover the latent mindâ€"power you habitually fail to use, you may wish to attend the Saturday seminar at Conestoga College‘s Doon campus on Sept. 28 titled ‘Psychocybernetics â€" Mind Guidance‘. He recounts: "The housewife who felt that a facelift might casue her husband and children to appreciate her more really needed to appreciate herself more. Middle age, plus a few wrinkles and a few grey hairs, had caused her to lose her selfâ€" esteem. She then became supersensitive to innocent remarks and actions of her family." And here‘s his prescription for restoring your selfâ€"esteem: "Stop carrying around a mental picture of yourself as a defeated, worthless person. Stop dramatizing yourself as an object of pity and injustice. The word ‘esteem‘ means to appreciate the worth of. Why do people stand in awe of the stars and the moon, the immensity of the sea, the beauty of a flower or a sunset, and at the same time downgrade themselves? ‘ "Did not the same Creator make all? This appreciation of your own worth is not egotism, unless you assume that you are better than anyone else. And do not downgrade the product merely because you haven‘t used it properly, like the schoolboy who said ‘This typewriter can‘t spell.‘ Dr. Maltz was a noted plastic surgeon and in his practice he experienced many occasions when a patient‘s self.esteem rose remarkably, which was to be expected when he was able to correct a serious facial disfigurement. But also he had people coming to him for cosmetic surgery when the trouble was elsewhere. We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice." Jealousy, for example, which is the scourge of many a marmiage, is nearly always caused by selfâ€"doubt. The people with adequate selfâ€"esteem don‘t feel hostile toward others, they aren‘t out to prove anything, they can see facts clearly and aren‘t demanding in their claims on other people. Every once in a while, I pull down a book that I have enjoyed in the past and go through it again. Such a book is Psychoâ€" Cybernetics by the late Dr. Maxwell Maltz He writes: "Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, selfâ€"disesteem is the deadliest and the hardest to overcome; for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase ‘It‘s no use â€" I can‘t do it.‘ "On those days when we are most subject to fearful unbelief in ourselves â€" when we most doubt ourselves and feel inadequate to our task â€" isn‘t it precisely then that we are most difficult to get along with? "The penalty for succumbing to it is heavy â€" both for the individual in terms of material rewards lost, and for society in gains and progress unachieved. The hole we dig for ourselves § t 3 ;\““\:’%"\\:‘@“&x\@z\fi“‘@{ 5P ,¢fp¢gtgt y PERSPECTIVE & 8 «9 It‘s never altogether easy preparing for a new school year. For some students and their families, there are registration forms to be filled out, course selections to be made, and even considerations about which school to attend. And though the experience can be a bit nerveracking, with the help of school counsellors and administrative staff, most students get through it with little difficulty. But imagine how much more difficult it would be if you didn‘t speak the language spoken in the sc!xool you or your children were attending. Imagine how confusing the situation must be to someone newly arrived in this country who has no understanding of this country‘s educational system. By introducing two "Welcoming Centres", the Waterloo Region Roman Catholic separate school board has responded to the problem faced by nonâ€" Englishâ€"speaking families. The centres, at the St. Louis Learning Centres in Waterloo and Cambridge, will serve newly arrived immigrant and refugee students and their families by providing translation, orientation and placement services. Both centres opened yesterday, but program coâ€" ordinator Janet Groen says planning has been underway for more than a year, when separate board superintendent of education George Flynn and principal of St. Louis Adult Centre Teresa Gonzales decided a better approach was needed to work with immigrants and refugees entering the school system. "Before (the centres were developed), immigrants and refugees would just show up at Deborah Crandall Chronicle Staff P € House « Cedar 210 Regina St. N., Waterioo 885â€"1711 the schools, and were faced with all these forms that have to be filled out â€" they don‘t understand the language and there‘s often a communication problem," Groen says. "It was very, very difficult for the schools and for the families because there were so many communication barriers. It was felt there had to be a better way to make these people feel welcome and also provide better information to the schools." The Welcoming Centres are linked with several community agencies, such as the Multicultural Centre, which will direct newly arrived familes to them for assistance. Atthecent.res.aninterpteterwillbepmvidedno the refugee family can deal with the situation in their first language. ‘"‘For example, we have a family here from Portugal, and (multilingual staff member) Sandra Abrahim speaks Portuguese so she‘s helping them fill out all the forms â€" personal information forms, health forms, insurance forms, tax forms. All those forms can be explained in their first language," Groen says. ‘"She can also explain things such as school procedures, P.D. days, parentâ€"teacher interviews, permission forms â€"â€" all those things that would be unknown to immigrant or refugee families. And if the family has questions about the school system, all of that can be done in a better atmosphere." Thefirstintentoftheeentruis.ofcoum.w assist newly arrived families, Groen says. But its second purpose is to provide more information to the schools regarding the students and families â€" information that may otherwise not be obtained due to language barriers. $ (Continued on page 12)