Dear parents, grandparents and teachers,
I believe classes like this can help us encourage the children in our lives, to think bigger than mainstream education that limits their potential and their future satisfaction and happiness.
Children are raised to be competitive in the job market so they can get the bigger house and the flashier car; but “things” do not satisfy us for long, since the house could always be bigger and the car could always be flashier and so often we get stuck in this pattern of always wanting more and never being satisfied. Not only do people get bored with things easily but they do not find them satisfying because they feed our ego’s rather than our soul or higher self.
So society encourages our children to prioritize things that do not feed their Spirit, since, Spirit thinks bigger and beyond oneself.
These classes offer ideas on how we can encourage children to develop their soul’s higher values so they can become happier and healthier adults that give back to their communities and develop a deeper sense of purpose and awareness of self.
Schools help develop children’s minds, but integrity, inclusivity, honesty, kindness, and many more heart qualities are developed at home and unfold over time, beginning at age 2. Therefore, these classes help parents, grandparents, and teachers deepen their understanding of self and children as incarnating consciousness, or souls. They also remind us of the importance of modeling higher energetic qualities – like kindness and generosity – as well as teaching higher truths, like brotherhood and goodwill.
This class is broken up into four developmental stages since, as children get older and understand more, they can deepen their existing heart qualities like kindness and compassion and develop new ones, like inclusivity and integrity. Humanity needs these deeper understandings and qualities desperately right now, and it can begin with this next generation if we prioritize their development at home. The overarching goal of this class is to help our children with the unfoldment of their innate heart qualities and light, which will support the development of their full potential and help bring a shift in consciousness – more light and love – into their families, friends, work environments, and the world.
The course consists of two parts:
Spiritual and psychological information on children, primarily from books by: Alice Bailey, Lucille Cedercrans, Rudolf Steiner, Maria Montessori, Jean Piaget, and Joseph Chilton Pearce.
Children’s activities and strategies that support that development.
Part 1 covered the original birth of the monadic spark, physical birth, and development to age 2.
Part 2 focused on the importance of the magical years ages 2–7, when children feel connected to everything, bugs talk and rocks have feelings.
Mind Development age 2-7
Driven to learn through strong will
Learns through senses
Magical years—feels connected to everything
Free play and fantasy very important
Heart Qualities age 2-7
Gratitude- natural heart quality since children feel so connected to beauty and nature at this age.
Compassion-towards family and friends
Integrity-begin discussions on telling the truth
Cooperation-related to home and school
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Wisdom is the enlightened application of knowledge (mind) through love (heart). We want our children to become wise adults, since that is their full potential.
I will share information from leading educators like: Rudolf Steiner, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Maria Montessori, and others. Also, spiritual leaders: Alice Bailey, David Spangler and more.
Evening 1--focus on the development of the energy system at this age
Evening 2- Cognitive development (2-7)
Evening 3 -Three "R"s of souldren: Reverence, Relationship, Responsibility
Evening 4- Long term goals for children --goodwill, integrity and harmlessness
Dates: TBD 4 evening classes
Where: on-line only. Meetings will be recorded
Times: 5:00pm – 7:00ish Pacific
Course fee: $200.
Please register by contacting me at: dimckeag@gmail.com
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We hope you will join us!
Diane and Barb