Foundation for Future Education is working with two education programs for children and youth, parents and teachers:
Education for self-empowerment and joy of life
Education created by teachers to empower children and youth with self-knowledge and skills, e.g. how to manage attention and negative emotions, how to find inner peace and meditate in a simple way. Today’s school system is mainly oriented on teaching about the outer world and we find it worrying that children and youth are diagnosed with stress, depression and other mental health issues at an even greater rate and in younger age (e.g. loneliness, worthlessness, meaningless, addictive or suicidal behavior).
We want to prevent such problems and want our children to become healthy and happy human beings. Inner peace also naturally affects the relationship that a young person builds with others and the surrounding and increases human ability to overcome contradictions and conflicts affecting our societies and living environments today.
The program includes training for teachers, children and youth, mentoring and follow-up. It can be included as well to complement the human studies program already part of the school curriculum.
It is created in Estonia and based on Practical Consciousness (previously known as Art of Conscious Change), an inner education program initially meant for adults, taught for 10+ years by modern wisdom teacher and master of kriya yoga Ingvar Villido (www.ingvarvillido.com).
Education for creating a positive and sustainable world
Children have an innate ability to dream, though their dreams may seem unrealistic to parents and teachers. Yet what parents see as fantasy is very much a reality for the children.
With this philosophy, Gunter Pauli and ZERI created a series of fables that form the starting point of a fascinating learning journey through science. These fables are based on teaching five intelligences: four intelligences – academic, emotional, artistic, ecological – can be combined so as to create a fifth intelligence: the capacity to implement change.
Learners of all ages connect best with stories. Stories engage the emotions and make content memorable. Learning science through stories is unorthodox, but it makes learning science both easy and enjoyable! The fables also present academic knowledge in a way that makes it relevant to daily life – it becomes a tool that children can use creatively when thinking about the challenges and opportunities of the world we live in. Eco-literacy enables to see connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena. For students to create sustainable communities, they must be able to use the systems inherent in nature as inspiration.
A learning system based on the combination of these five intelligences prepares youth for the challenges they will face in our changing world. With this approach, future generations will be full of creativity, ready to innovate, with clear ethical values. Most importantly, they will be determined to create a better world, such as their teachers and parents could never have imagined.
Today these learning systems and tools are used in more than 10 languages and countries, created by ZERI Learning Initiative (www.zerilearning.org) and visionary entrepreneur Gunter Pauli (www.gunterpauli.com) who dedicates half of his time to education starting at kindergarten.
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For further information please contact: Ave Oit, ave.oit(at)lilleoru.ee.
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