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我的名字叫罗恩·荷特尔，我是华盛顿州立社会情绪学习部门的主管。在过去十几年的时间，我有幸出版了几本书，并且在加拿大和美国进行了几百场帮助老师如何更有效教授学生的培训。

过去四年里，我很荣幸能够和Sherill 一起在“爱心学校计划”（Compassionate Schools Initiative） 中共事。爱心学校计划是一个多面多文化的项目，我们教许多家庭和专业人士来帮助生活中承受着有害压力的年轻人。研究持续证明，有害的压力是阻碍学生成就的主要原因。Sherill 事实上已经为上千位学生、家长、大学生、上班族等人群提供了人际关系和职业发展方面的咨询。她在爱心学校计划中展现的热情，是基于她坚信，人们只有真实的检视自己的内心，我们完整的自我才可能被疗愈和重塑的信念。

从我认识Sherill 起，她的目标就一直是让人们更有力量，能够更理解自己，能够在理解自己的基础上，活出真实的自我想要的生活，然后由此活的更满足。

Sherill 在咨询中非常能够同理他人，链接他人,尤其是面对各种不同的性格的人群，她可以帮助他们更好地适应人际交往，建立更有意义的，更顺畅的关系。这一点可以很好地在她的《实用人格手册》的课程中呈现。这个课程会让我们更好的理解我们自己的心理模式，我们怎样看待他人，以及理解我们所持有的偏见，会怎样影响我们认清自己的能力。

课程也会更好的帮助我们有更好的心理健康，培养我们的幸福感，还有我们与他人的链接感。

Sherill 在学术方面也是很厉害的——她毕业于非常有威望的纽约的哥伦比亚大学，还有好几年的临床实践经验。在她的工作中，她可以给到学生们洞察、技术，还有在生活中很实用的练习。

Sherill 网页上有一句我非常喜欢的话：“我们相信意识、反思、行动力、真诚、转变和精神世界，让我们的青年能够去过有意识的生活，鼓励家长们因成长中的思想而喜悦。”

我认为这节课在个人成长方面的帮助正是现在的人们前所未有需要的。对我们的自我有更深的理解，来更好的理解他人、与他人链接，这对于自我和职业方面的成长至关重要。根据我的经验，我强烈的推荐这节课，这是一个关心自我，也是关心他人的学习。我也非常相信Sherill，和她的正向理念，将会使每一个她接触到的人都生活的更好。

海明威，这位美国著名的作家，曾经在《永别了,武器》中说，“世界使每个人破碎，但后来他们的破碎之处，却变得更强了。” Sherill所做的工作更让我相信这句话了。

我非常荣幸在这里能够支持她的工作，非常感谢。

—英文版—

My name is Ron Hertel and I am the Director of Socio-emotional Learning for the State of Washington. I've had the opportunity and the privilege to author several works and provide hundreds of trainings in both United States and Canada within the past decade to help teachers become more effective with their students.

For the past 4 years, I have had pleasure working with Sherill Ren during the development of the Compassionate Schools Initiative, which is a multifaceted, multi-cultural framework that is designed to help families and professionals to work with youth who have been impacted by toxic stress in their lives. Research continues to clearly show that toxic stress often times stands in the way of student achievement.

Sherill has worked with literally thousands of students, parents, college graduates, working professionals, and others to provide counseling and couching in the areas of relationship and career-development. Her passionate pursuit with me in the development of The Compassionate Schools is rooted in her belief that only by taking an authentic look at herselves, can healing and restoration of our full selves become possible.

As I've known Sherill, her goal has always been to empower individuals to understand themselves better, and based on that understanding, to live a life that's closer to their true heart and thereby feeling more fulfilled. Sherill has an easily relatable approach to understanding diverse personalities, and to help them adapt in ways that make their interactions with others more meaningfully, more successfully.

This is clearly articulated in her class that's titled, "Understanding Personalities". This approach helps us to better understand our own mental models, and how we see others, and to see how the biases that we hold influence our abilities to see ourselves clearly, to embrace our own mental health, to nurture our sense of well-being, and our sense of connection to one another.

Sherill also has a strong academic background from a prestige University -- Columbia University in New York City along with several years of practical experience. In her work, she provides her students with insights, techniques, and practices they are able to use in real-world ways.  

Sherill 's website starts with the following words: “we value consciousness, reflection, execution, authenticity, transformation and spirituality, we empower our youth to embrace conscious living, we engage parents to celebrate growing minds.”

 I love that.

This bold approach to personal coaching is greatly needed in the world today, probably more than ever. Understanding ourselves deeply in order to better understand and relate to others is essential for our both personal and professional growth. Based on my experience, I highly recommend this approach to you, a compassionate approach to yourself and others. I have great confidence that Sherill and her strength-based approach will improve the lives of everyone she touches.

A great American author Earnest Hemingway said in his novel A Farewell to Arms, “The World breaks everyone, and afterwards they are strong at broken places.” The work that Sherill brings to the world make this especially true, and I really appreciate this opportunity to support her work.

Thank you very much.