{"id":999,"date":"2018-03-30T16:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T20:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/coe\/?p=999"},"modified":"2018-03-30T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T21:03:05","slug":"lisa-farley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/coe\/2018\/03\/30\/lisa-farley\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Big Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Left to right: Prof. Cathy Hartman, Dan Molodi, Dr. Lisa Farley, and Ghena Serri<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Lisa Farley
\nHuman Movement\u00a0& Health Science Education Professor
\nby Erin Morrisey<\/a><\/h3>\n

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When we meet some people, we want to do everything we can to become exactly like them, simply because they\u2019re so wonderful. Coming into the College of Education (COE), surrounded by so many bright, inspiring, motivated people, it can be difficult to better yourself without feeling the need to become like someone else.<\/p>\n

Dr. Lisa Farley voiced the struggle she faced finding her place in the COE; often, it\u2019s easy to think that, surrounded by so many wonderful people, finding your own \u201cbig idea\u201d to pursue like everyone else can be a challenge. Dr. Farley loves being the \u201cworker bee.\u201d She enjoys being a part of the support structure that permeates the COE, and believes much of the learning with her peers is more like being a worker bee than being a visionary.<\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s Dr. Farley\u2019s simple desire to serve that makes her a wonderful professor. She doesn\u2019t search for personal fulfillment or simply expand her own knowledge at the university. She simply wanted to make a difference, found her passion in health education, and serves the profession in whatever way she can. Dr. Farley helps students work on finding internships and pursing external relationships. She helps college students work on their research projects. She works with Dr. Hochman in IPS School 91, teaching first, second, and third graders while simultaneously training future teachers. And it was this work with grade school students that prompted Dr. Farley\u2019s latest \u201cbig idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Left to right: Dr. Lisa Farley, Jenna Cole, and Samantha Smith<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Farley is a health educator to the core. She believes that health is the foundation of everything we do, and she wants to involve health in\u00a0mainstream conversations, starting with grade school students. Specifically, Dr. Farley and Dr. Hochman are working together throughout this year to bring mental health conversations into the classroom, then plan to bring this conversation to Butler\u2019s campus through the first, second, and third graders. Dr. Farley\u2019s passion drives her desire to help students identify, understand, and talk intentionally about their emotions from as young an age as possible. Her big idea is to start one of the most complex conversations possible with children\u2014whom some claim aren\u2019t ready for such discussions\u2014hoping to spark a change in these children\u2019s lives for years to come.<\/p>\n

While Dr. Farley might believe this is her first big idea that can cause a major change in the world, she\u2019s clearly been enacting change for a long time. In addition to other work she\u2019s done, She shared with me one of her common practices: she texts a person she hasn\u2019t spoken to in a while, asks how their day is on a scale of one to ten, and then asks how she can improve that score by one. Dr. Farley\u2019s simple display of care for others moved me. She thinks that only big ideas are necessary for change, but she changes the world simply by caring for others. Sometimes, relationships are more important than any innovative idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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