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TO INSPIRE YOUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY
Amrita offers evening presentations to inspire conscious community
and a stronger commitment towards each other and our children.
Amrita brings her basket into your school community.
What she brings is many years of experience of working with youth and also with adults. The basket is full of her passion, experience, stories, sense of village and the gifts she carries as she travels from place to place. She brings this basket to your school.
In your school there is a vast amount of collective learning.
If yours is a Rudolf Steiner school you have his philosophy and amazing vision. There are teachers who carry the pedagogy for the children, there are those people who support the structure of the school - the staff, administration, gardeners, cleaners… and there are the parents.
All these people are a part of your school community.
Everything in your school is here to give the best possible experience to the children who attend. How closely is the basket of your school woven are you?
These presentations have slightly different themes but follow a similar thread.
WEAVING RITES OF PASSAGE WEBS
This inspirational presentation introduces the topic of Rites of Passage.
A Rite of Passage acknowledges that something is changing. It offers a time of reflection - where have I come from and where am I going. There is a time of flux; a liminal space where something new is forming - a true Rite of Passage has a spiritual element to it. It offers a challenge. The changes that occur can be conscious and they can also echo through time to resurface down the path of time.
Through stories, songs and personal experience we will discover why Rites of Passage can make the transition from child to adult less confusing. This presentation also speaks to adults who may not have been welcomed into their own community.
This talk informs parents of events that warrant marking in the lives of their children. It also explores the adults’ role of mentoring young people.
Go here for information about the workshop - Rite of Passage Journey and see what you can offer to yourself.
CREATING CONSCIOUS COMMUNITY
Does it take a village to raise a child?
We explore our adult responsibility to create a village that holds its children safely. We look at what that means, what it could look like. Creating the village can offer a powerful alternative to the media and popular culture.
This talk offers insight into how your school or organisation can become a conscious community - committed to assisting children through their growing up experiences.
SEXUALITY - WHAT TO TELL THEM, HOW AND WHEN!
For parents of both boys and girls from kindy into adolescence.
Explores how can the facts of life be brought to children in a sensitive and imaginative way that is appropriate to the developmental stage?
How can we weave attitudes of caring, respect and reverence for our bodies and physical relationships from an early age?
How are you modelling intimate relationship to your children.
Explores these issues, answers your questions and is full of practical suggestions.
Your work is fascinating and deeply inspiring. In our western society
today, there is so much need to create community and to reach our young
people. We have lost much of that. Our adult’s are in many cases
carrying deep wounds – mostly unseen and un-acknowledged – the
repercussions of which are being passed on to future generations both
implicitly and explicitly and reflecting in crime, health
(mental/physical), our social structure, etc. What a wonderful
opportunity to make a difference in the world! Leslie Purkiss, Consultant, Vancouver.
MOTIVATION
If young people are unable to speak with their parents about what is happening for them or parents do not know how to speak to their children - who can they turn to? By offering a formal structure your community can assist young people are floundering. Most of us learn by trial and error, without adult guidance and support. This is not ideal! Adults can step forward and help this process by creating opportunities, listening, caring and being there.
If you become a community offering young people formal circle time and/or Rites of Passage experiences you can:
- open conversations about the physical and emotional changes they are going through with a group of adults,
- open up conversations about issues that are usually taboo in our culture in age appropriate open and honest ways,
- offer the children in your community some of the things that could have marked your own growing up journey in powerful ways,
- assist children and teenagers to recognise who they are,
- help young people to be aware of the forces around them - peer and media pressure to become someone they are not,
- create a container that is safe for them to mature,
- acknowledge transitional times your children pass through – helping them to grow up in healthy ways,
- become mentors, a village of adults who have a caring and committed role in the lives of the young,
… create the village for your children to grow up in.
GOING A STEP FURTHER
Boys cry out for the presence of men in their lives; girls yearn for the Mysteries to be revealed and recognise the power of this.
As a mentor Amrita offers an invitation to adults to become involved in forming a mens’ and womens’ council. These groups could support both girls and boys to relate and experience their place within their own gender circle as well as learn from adults of the other gender.
Are you willing to support children to grow up with formal and structured support. You have all that is required. Calling men and women to participate in a life changing process. By taking on the role of mentor you find ways to grow yourself up. There is no other time like now.
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