Hi Kim,
I'm reading the replies to your first question with interest as this is
all new to me but your second question I can offer something to. Perhaps
you are expressing the dawning realization that OST and home need not be
separate and that when considering your children, the default option for
their learning goes on outside the home. There is plenty of thinking
and writing on this topic, it runs very deep in modern western culture.
However, for a mother, there is the question of alignment, continuity
and sustainable integrated value. Our family are home educators,
unschoolers and spaceniks. This works, as it always does, and worth
every single moment. Plenty of topics, endless opportunity and with
that it just grows. Open space within the family.
Best wishes
Daniel LeBel
Westport NZ
Kim Willing wrote:
Hello everyone!
Well this is syncronicity. Whilst attempting to overcome a bad cold
and take a desperately needed break from my 2 children (1 is 20 months
and the other just over 3 years old) I was lying (hiding) in bed
reading Harrison's book on peace and wondering how it is I could
possibly adopt an Open Space mentality in the care of my kids!
Preface this with the fact that I am operating in my own facilitation
business (mostly Open Space), aiming to work an average of 2 days a
month and spending the rest of the time being mum.
I am currently in the process of preparing myself to conduct another 2
Open Space gatherings later in the month. In this role I have found
my experience of Open Space and of myself to be calm, bold, completely
unflappable and grounded........ but then I come home to my mum role
and it seems the opposite is true! I am very challenged here! Thank
goodness the people sitting in the circle, can't see what was going on
before I left home! (Something like changing roles from cruel
autocrat to Buddhist monk - I'm sure it's not quite this bad all the
time but it is winter and I am feeling a little run down!). Somehow I
seem to be running out of space at home. In the grand plan to have a
regular break from kiddlies, my 2 attend a creche in Hobart every
Thursday. I knew that they used a Reggio Emilia approach there but
didn't have a clue what it meant - only that I like (and the kids
like) they're experience there. So, I am excited and relieved to
discover it has links with Open Space and would like to:
a) find out more about it - can anyone refer me to anything here (if
and when I get time to read it) and
b) post this question from a mum who feels like her experience of Open
Space is far from home - How do we do it? (ie: with toddlers, 24hrs a
day, at home?)
Love from Hobart town.
Kim.
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