Learning Problem Solving with Friends - Compassion Skills is part of a comprehensive problem-solving curriculum. This book focuses on compassion skills as the target skills for problem-solving, which include four (a) offering help, (b) telling white lies, (c) making a concession, sharing, taking turns, etc., and (d) stopping an action or a topic.
From this book, Learners will learn to flexibly generate strategies using visualization (i.e., the Problem-Solving Map), relational framing such as perspective-taking (Hayes et al., 2001), and talk-aloud about the thinking and planning process (Glass, 1992; Johnson & Chung, 1999), to effectively solve the following four corresponding types of novel social problems through multiple picture (a) Others need help, (b) Telling the truth may hurt others' feelings, (c) There are conflicts of interest due to a lack of resources. (d) One's behaviour makes others not comfortable.
The curriculum is based on Contextual Behavioral Science (CBS).
Stephanie Chan, also known as Stephanie Dogfoot, is a writer, performer and educator from Singapore. She is the author of a poetry collection called Roadkill for Beginners, published by Math Paper Press (2019).
In 2010 she won Singapore’s 2nd National Poetry Slam Championships and represented Singapore in the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam Championships later that year.
In 2012 she won the UK Farrago Slam and went on to represent the UK at the European Slam in Championships and the Poetry World Cup.
She has performed her work on various stages in 11 different countries, including the Glastonbury Festival, the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival and the Shambala Festival, as well as tours of Australia and Germany.
She is an editor and moderator of SingPoWriMo (Singapore Poetry Writing Month) 2017 and 2018 anthologies. Passionate about organizing and helping to build spoken word scenes. she has been hosting and running poetry nights in London and Singapore since 2012. In 2017, she founded Spoke & Bird, a monthly poetry night in Singapore which features local and international artists. Herwork can be found in various local and international anthologies.