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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