TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Circle Sanctuary
and Its Presence
in the Room
The Heart-Mind
Preparation Before Entering
the Classroom
The Sanctuary Approach
and the Pristine Moment
Having Fun in School
Leaving Convention Behind
Interfacing the Academic Studies
with Our Partners
in Nature
What the Children Can Tell Us
and What They
Already Know
What Makes a Teacher
for the Sanctuary School?
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CIRCLE TEACHING:
A Teaching Manual for the Sanctuary School
By Patricia Jepsen
(2003, 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", 29 pages, stapled booklet,
US$6.00)
EXCERPT
The Sanctuary School offers
children a foundation in kind living
and love of nature by encouraging compassionate participation,
partnership with all life, and individual creative expression.
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Every teacher of the Sanctuary Program
must have a deep appreciation for nature and a respect for all
life. This is essential and is, perhaps, the primary note in
the Sanctuary Program. Children demand and command truthfulness.
They are very careful to sort out in their minds who is telling
the truth and speaking from the heart and who is not.
This means that a thorough self-examination
and understanding of your own capacity to guide the child in
the Sanctuary approach to education is necessary. If you can
say that you are a friend of all life and a respecter of all
living beings, as well as the natural environment, you will be
able to respond to the Sanctuary School approach to education
and living.
What matters now are your self-honesty
and your capacity to speak and listen from your heart-mind. This
handbook will explore with you the realm of heart-intelligence,
how it can be reached and utilized. When the heart is understood
as the sanctuary that embraces and vitalizes the circle of life,
the creative magic of the teaching circle can emerge to the delight
of the children and the well-being of our planet. Consciousness
can be lifted directly through the heart into a world of enlightenment
and compassionate service.
How do you trigger the heart-mind as
active intelligence and how do you create a teaching circle in
your classroom?
A teaching circle is a creative expanse
of energy that penetrates the classroom. It connects all life
into a single unit where no barriers can exist and no static,
rigid paradigm can remain. The fluidity of the circle moves energy
around from one conception base to another. It passes thoughts
into higher degrees of conscious awareness and allows revelation
to occur within the class. It creates mobility of
thought.
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