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 June 12^th, 2003         Send this email to a friend

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This year a number of international conferences focus on spirituality in education:

• Celebrating Spirit of Learning - Australia
• Nurturing Spirit in a Sustainable World - Canada
• Igniting Wisdom and Compassion - Co: USA
• Education, Spirituality and the Whole Child - UK
• International Conference on Children’s Spirituality - BC: USA

The aim of the Australian conference "is to create a nourishing and innovative learning community with an emphasis on transformation rather than information. It will be based on the values of integrity, inclusion and inspiration and aims to encourage the integration of soul, meaning and joy into education."

The Canadian conference "explores learning as a process that engages body, mind, emotions and spirit. The keynote speakers are Linda Lantieri, found Director of Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, and author of Nurturing Spirit in Schools and Satish Kumar, Director of Programs at Schumacher College in England and author of Path without Destination.

WWW Sites

Spirit of Learning

Books on Spirituality and Spirituality in Education

Jack Miller will be a keynote presenter at the Celebrating Spirit of Learning conference in Australia. Jack Miller has worked in the area of holistic education for over 30 years. Currently he is Professor and Coordinator of the Holistic and Aesthetic Graduate Specialization in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto.

Quote

"What transforms education,
is a transformed being
in the world."
Parker Palmer

In Education and the Soul he writes: "In the last few years we have witnessed an increasing interest in matters of spirituality. Some argue that we are in a spiritual renaissance... I prefer the term 'global awakening.' People in different countries and in different domains are awakening to a sense of the sacred and to the interconnectedness of life. I believe that the time has come for soulful learning. We have had enough of machinelike approaches to education that deaden the human spirit... Instead, we can learn to bring onto the Earth an education of deep joy where the soul once again learns to sing. Soulful learning nurtures the inner life of the student and connects it to the outer life and the environment."

For the classroom...

Are you a goose?
(171kb PowerPoint Presentation)

Seven Gateways to the
Soul of Education

• The yearning for deep connection
• The longing for silence and solitude
• The search for meaning and purpose
• The hunger of joy and delight
• The creative drive
• The urge for transcendence
• The need for initiation  

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more information

Planetary Thinking.... 

What's Happening to the Earth?  Environmental Rationality and Social Sustainability: An Holistic Planetary Approach

A PowerPoint Presentation (139kb)
by Victor Montero Cam from the Peruvian Institute of
Holistic-Planetary Thought

HENT Web Site and Discussion List

HENT has a comprehensive web site and there is a national discussion list on holistic education hosted by EdNA. 

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