Educational Outline
Evolving Human Consciousness Towards a Kinder, Saner Future
*Currently seeking collaborators, and cultural change agents who want to transform the focus, content, and experiential modes of how elementary education is accomplished. Standardized education is failing to produce students who value themselves, others and life.
HOW
Through interactive and experiential modes: storytelling, drawing/painting, animation, videos, multi-media, puppetry, acting/guided improvisation, dance, making music, songs and song writing, dyad, triads, quartets, and whole group processing, practices, exercises, poetry, journaling, noncompetitive games, distinctions, peer-teaching,….
Teachers need more freedom to relate to their students and create enriching experiences without the restrictions of "standardized" testing.
To be implemented in existing and emerging structures, such as schools, homeschooling, online, or village, and in summer camps, foster and juvenile homes, and other places where children learn and play.
A simultaneous parallel education is needed for parents/grandparents, caregivers and teachers.
GRADES 2 AND 3: Knowledge of who and what you are
2 hours a week, consecutive or divided. For one semester or the whole year.
2, 3 -- UNIVERSE STORY
New cosmology. Evolutionary timeline. We are all made of the same star-born stuff. Energy and matter. Non-separation. Each existence is unique, a miracle. Each human has a wanted genius, is precious. Universal needs of all life. Diversification, interdependence and unity. Abundance and gratitude. Visible and invisible. Quantum reality. Materials provided by Sisters of Earth. Watch here.
2, 3 -- LIFE, ANIMAL NATURE, & BODY WISDOM
Embodied awareness. Basic and universal needs of living bodies. Inter-cellular communication happens chemically, electrically, and energetically (vibrationally.) Seeds, sun, water, and soil. Mammals’ belonging needs. Body systems. Nervous system. Brain role. Heart role. Emotions. DNA/RNA. Non-separate kinship with all breathers: respect/humility and connection. Earth Family: care – not harm – safety, clean non-toxic habitat. Ecosystems. Abundance. Reciprocity and sharing. Regenerative responsibility. Health/Hydration/Movement/Rest. Freedom from toxicity. Nutrition, food combinations, whole organic foods, eating together. Adaptation. Self-reflection.
2, 3, 4 -- EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Noticing and distinguishing feelings (anger, sadness, fear, joy) through internal sensations, and behaviors: body language, facial expressions, words, and actions. Honor emotions as signals pointing to needs (met or not met). Self management. Collaborate to innovate how needs of all can be met with least harm. NVC key assumptions and communication. Jackal & Giraffe thinking. Conflicts as opportunities for growth and innovation. See materials provided by Gina Simm.
GRADES 4 AND 5: Your Relationality
4 hours a week, consecutive or divided. For one semester or the whole year.
4, 5 -- SELF(S) -- IDENTITY
Stages of development. Each child with unique and wanted visions/gifts/purpose. Family, Tribe, Earthling. Thoughtware. Choice and consequences. Values. Vision. Self awareness. Authenticity. Identity and Self-hood. Ancestral lineage. Global/cosmic identity – we are all in the same boat. Interdependence, non-separation. Generously sharing resources -- sameness of other and me. Ethical considerations. Characteristics of initiated Human maturity and levels of responsibility. An ecological humanity.
4, 5 -- TRAUMA, INNER PARTS & EMPATHY
Any overwhelming feeling that you were disempowered to express became an emotion attached to certain adaptive coping behaviors/ strategies. Parts of self. Internal voices. Ancestral and collective trauma. To heal requires a culture that generates safety for feelings to be fully experienced, and to integrate exiled parts, which will otherwise keep you stuck (frozen) until fully experienced. Self-sabotage appears in order to get attention. Attachment styles = conditioning in how we approach or avoid conflict. Self-Empathy first allows empathy and compassion for others. Validating what you give your attention to. Choosing where to give your attention.
4, 5 -- PARTNERSHIPS & the PLANET'S FUTURE
Relationship skills. Friendships. Teams. Agreements. Conflicts. Apology. Consent/Boundaries. Mating. Love languages. Parenting. Co-creators. Collective evolution. Relationships and responsibilities to self/ others/ Earth/ Great Mystery. Precautionary Principle. Legal foundations to protest industrial incursion on streams, air, soil, forests, lakes, oceans, wildlife, climate. Power with others to generate social, economic, institutional, and legal shifts of human priorities to be life supportive.