Evie's Creating Calm Counselling

At GGLPS my counselling focus is on supporting students and families to flourish by fostering positive mental health and wellbeing through individual, small group, and family counselling.  We provide pro-active programs which provide skills and strategies for self-care, maintaining positive relationships, positive learning behaviours, belonging, and strong connections with family and community. 

Have you heard about “bucket filling”? 

Bucket filling “fill-osophy” stems from Carol McCloud’s book Have You Filled A Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids.  In the book, the reader learns that everyone has an invisible bucket that can be filled or emptied.  When our bucket is full, we are happy, and when our bucket is empty we feel sad and lonely.    

Carol McCloud has also written another book: Growing Up with a Bucket Full of Happiness: Three Rules for a Happier Life. These rules are also the foundation of many of my conversations with students hoping to instil kindness in everything that we think, say, and do.

1. Be a bucket filler by doing or saying kind things to fill someone’s bucket with happy thoughts and feelings. When you fill someone’s bucket you fill your own bucket. 
2. Don’t be a bucket dipper by saying or doing mean things. By the way, when you dip into someone’s bucket, you dip into your own bucket. Saying or doing mean things removes good thoughts and feelings from your own bucket.
3. Use your lid to protect the good thoughts and feeling from being removed from your bucket when someone says or does mean things.

YOU can be a bucket filler too. You can fill your child’s bucket, your neighbour’s bucket, and your parent’s bucket. 

Did you also know that each staff member at GGLPS has a bucket too! 

If you would like to know more about bucket filling visit the bucket filling website, www.bucketfillers101.com

Evie Donoghue

School Counsellor