If we look at Montessori’s cosmic vision through the planes of development, we see that each plane can be summarized in a phrase. The first plane is cosmic wonder and exploration. The second plane is cosmic stories and imagination. And the third plane is cosmic action...
Sarah Denae
Listening to Adolescents
We approach adolescents in a different way, for our benefit and theirs. It is not that we, the adults, should invite adolescents to the table, and share our plan of the future with them. It is that we should hang out in their space, and hope to be invited to watch...
Adolescents as Guides
Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching’s great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience...
Seasonal Transitions
Seasonal Transitions By Marc Cobb, TIES Alumni The changing of seasons has long been a reliable marker of time. Early humans used the unwavering journey of the sun to track the hours into days — and then the days to track the sometimes subtle, often blatant...
Integrative Learning
LIVING JOURNAL (4) PROCESS: INTEGRATIVE LEARNING Entry: Isaac Levine LC24 – Washington, USA Taking integrative learning further, the boundaries between humans and other living forms—and eventually non-living forms—fades away. That is the lesson of the Universe story:...
Gaian Systems Perspective Entries
LIVING JOURNAL PROCESS: GAIAN SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE Entry: April Smith LC17 – Vermont, USA The world is all about relationship . . . not simply two things next to each other, or one using another for personal gain, but rather real, alive, dynamic, reciprocal exchanging...
Cosmological Perspective Entries
LIVING JOURNAL (2) PROCESS: COSMOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE Entry: Kristin Tarnowski LC15 – Oregon, USA An 8-year-old child in Kristin’s class wrote a poem titled, "I Am From" I am from trees. I am from the wind whistling in my ears. I am from rocks, ugly and beautiful. I am...
Eros Entries
LIVING JOURNAL (1) PROCESS: EROS Entry: Natalie Sardi LC16 – Colorado, USA Looking back through the lens of eros, autopoiesis, and phenomenology, and in directing my conscious study toward a previous unconscious emotional response, I begin to experience a deeper...
The Cosmic Citizen
The Cosmic CitizenBy Lauren de BoerPlanet Earth, turning and turning, transmutes the rays of the Sun to a dazzling multiplicity of form and expression, an alchemy of tassel and leaf, fin and feather, eye and bone; all are progeny of a planet in reverie. And the dream...