Unlocking Potential: Validation and Self-Energy for Student Success – Closing the Gap Podcast

Dr. Robin Barre is a psychotherapist and depth psychologist specializing in Internal Family Systems (IFS). Robin has built a career working with adolescents, young people ages 11-20 starting her journey as a high school educator. In her prolific blog, The Shiftless Wanderer, Robin covers topics of common issues and conflicts caregivers, mentors, and educators often face when stewarding adolescence into adulthood.

In this episode of Closing the Gap, Robin touches on learning and validating students’ parts and fostering a safe space for students to develop their self-energy; shepherding students’ success in school, STEM, and into rewarding careers. Together we will explore the concept of trauma and how childhood traumas play into the way they interact with the world as teens and adults.

The Shiftless Wanderer Must Reads:

• When They Lie (Part 1)  – a three-part series
• Who Validates? The One Who Is Able.
• How to Have a Conversation with a Teenager
• Unpacking “Traumatic Invalidation”
• The Middle/High School Educator’s Most Powerful and Effective Disciplinary Tools

IFS Resources:

• Five Useful Resources for Youth Program Developers
• The Process and Practice of Validation
• Inside the Mind of Trauma Overcoming I’m Not Good Enough – Gabor Mate – Inside Serene
• Internal Family Systems Therapy – Psychology Today

adolescence, Internal Family Studies, psychology, student success, validation