June 2024 This blog has been written by Acacia Moore, the Director of Online Courses and apprenticing Executive Director for LifeWays North America. This May, I completed a three year Curative Educator’s training from Robyn Brown, founder of The Mulberry Center for Curative Education. For these past three years, I have taken up […]
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May 2024 Today’s article has been written for LifeWays by Robyn M Brown. Learn more about her and her remarkable Curative Education work here! In the moment we are born we bring with us two distinct beings. We bring with us our highest and truest self and we bring with us a
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May 2024 Today’s article was shared with us by our LifeWays Board President, Shanah Ahmadi. When we purchased the property for our program (Rose Rock School) 12 years ago, the 4 acre lot included an inground pool. We discovered that the idea of a serviced pool on the premises disturbed parents’ nerves, so we
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May 2024 Today’s article is by Judith Frizlen, sharing a chapter from her book, Where Wisdom Meets Wonder, Forty Stories of Grandma Love. When Tools are Toys, Work is Play It doesn’t take a lot of space to experience the outdoor world. Our urban yard is small but big enough. There’s a an
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But what exactly do we mean by play? Let’s begin to narrow the field by looking at what this kind of play is not: Not driven by the commercial culture; not based on a movie, not “themed”, not initiated in order to sell merchandise, not packaged, not bought or sold. Not technological, does not
It is springtime and the abundance of Mother Earth is arising, sprouting up green and lush. Her seasons of abundance will soon be with us! Here is a Fairy Tale from Japan, shared with us by Sharifa Oppenheimer, that gives the children images of generosity and the abundance that is created by sharing. The Magic
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March 24th, 2024 Change is chaotic. Even seasonal transitions can cause disturbance. But fortunately, our greatest capacity as human beings is to adapt to change. That is, unless we get stuck in trauma responses and our survival brain. If we do get stuck, it’s time to return to the lessons of early childhood.
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March 10th, 2024 “The greatest gift we can give our children is to go out into our villages and neighborhoods alongside our children, living and learning as they live and learn.” -Teacher Tom I’ve spent my entire classroom career working shoulder-to-shoulder with the parents of the children I taught. As a cooperative school,
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March 10th, 2024 I have had the privilege to have worked with teachers who were gifted with the ability to see the unique gifts in each child and parent in their class. Their intuitive ability helped to form a healthy social structure that children and parents alike could rely on. When a space of love,
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March 6, 2024 “Self-care is the foundation of all other care . . . Without it, we are living a lie for we cannot say we love our children if we have not fully loved our own beings.” -Dr. Shefali Tsabary “You can’t pour from an empty cup.” I hesitate to start with such a
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