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The Essentials of a Curriculum for Self-Understanding: The Body-Mind-Heart Framework in SSS
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” -Aristotle “Whenever your heart space, your mind space, and your body space are all present and accounted for at the same time, you can experience pure presence, a moment of deep inner … Continue reading
“Dealing with the Accuser: Befriending Your Inner Critic” by Sangeeta Bansal and Marty Schmidt
All of us have a running stream of voices that direct critique inwards, which when well-managed can serve us well. However, for many students these voices become far too powerful, leaving them with low self-regard. In this blog entry guest … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, depression, happiness, human nature, instructional strategies, meditation, spiritual practice, wisdom
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Introducing the Wisdom Way of Teaching: Educating for Social Conscience and Inner Awakening in the High School Classroom
This entry, written as an introduction for a future book, explores how the yin-yang symbol offers a model for the integration of service learning and spiritual practices in school curricula. Such an approach is needed to meet the deep needs … Continue reading
Education’s Most Needed Reform: An Orientation to the Universe
This stunning image of the Buddha from the Golden Temple in Dambulla, Sri Lanka communicates the truth that spiritual growth is often associated with luminosity – which I experienced, strangely enough, when grading my final World Religions papers earlier this … Continue reading
How to Search for A Meaningful Life: Introducing the Tripartite Heart
Dear Students, When it comes down to it, for all your hard work that will support an affluent lifestyle, I think that most of you would agree that ultimately happiness comes down to creating a meaningful life. And what that … Continue reading
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Teaching Teilhardian Hope in Hong Kong: A Response to Cynthia Bourgeault’s “Teilhard for Troubled Times”
More than two years ago Episcopalian priest and spiritual teacher Cynthia Bourgeault named 2015 the “Year of Teilhard,” encouraging study of the work of 20th century French paleontologist and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955). Over the last month … Continue reading
Disconnect: Technology and the Web of Relations at an International School
“Unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that is able to keep abreast of our technological genius, we will not save our planet.” – Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth, p. 137 As one final weekend fling before … Continue reading
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Tagged depression, disconnectedness, international education, technology
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Social Conscience and Inner Awakening 