THE BEGINNING
In an unexpected and fortuitous left turn in life, instead of landing a job with the Hawaii public schools, Linda began her career as an educator at Our Lady of Schools in Wahiawa, Hawaii. There she learned a new way of orchestrating a school environment to nurture the well being of students into model citizens. At Our Lady of Sorrows School, Sr. Joan Madden and an Adlerian psychologist, Dr. Raymond Corsini collaborated to create a revolutionary educational program then called Individual Education. Using Adlerian principles and Carl Roger’s self-actualization theory, this program emphasized the core values of the Four Rs: responsibility, respect, resourcefulness, and responsiveness to be modeled by the adults in order to foster these same values in the students.