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Peace Circle and The Soul Bird

4/9/2013

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Every Wednesday morning at the Inside Outside School, we have Peace Circle.  We gather in the theater space together, light a candle, meditate to center ourselves and then one of us shares a story that connects to some aspect of Human Greatness.  When we were working with "Identity" we heard the story of the Soul Bird, the bird that lives in each of us, the bird that has the keys to open the little drawers inside of us that hold our feelings and bits of our self that we may open often or rarely.  Sometimes we tell the soul bird which drawer to open and what we want to think and feel and sometimes it decides all by itself which drawer to open.  The children did some amazing watercolors to represent the soul bird inside each of them.  In our lives, the soul bird dips into some dark sticky places where the drawers are stuck and when they open there are sticky feelings in them.  It is nice to know that we can handle feeling those things and that there are plenty of drawers to open that help us feel better.  As we work with big ideas like Identity, Integrity, and Intuition, we learn more about who we are and how we can be true to who we are.  This week we will be working with the dimension of "Imagination."  Do you think trees have feelings?  I wonder. 

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Mayra Alejandra Cabrera-Matlalcuatzi
10/4/2014 11:52:55 pm

I have to thank you for this post. Really. I loved the way you wrote about it and the activities you perform with children. The Soul Bird is one of my favorite poems for children and yesterday we read it in the reading club for the elderly I organized in the community church. I live in Mexico City.
In the beggining, we have an activity called "The Bubble" (where we think of sth that is bothering us and we visualize ourselves putting it inside a bubble to let it go, far away), and then we read and discuss the material assigned for that session (tales, poems, or excerpts of a book). Yesterday, additionally, I asked the participants to draw their own Soul Bird and the drawers they like to open, as well as those they do not really like to be opened by the little bird. Then, we exchanged the drawings and we explained each other's images. I took this from you, and I wanna thank you for the good idea, because it was the perfect conclusion for what was a very touching session of this reading club. Congratulations for your work and keep on doing it in such a wonderful way for the children: I think this kind of activities impact their personal, inner growth, which is much more important than just learning how to write and how to sum :)

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