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Last week, I was asked to hold a workshop for middle school children and their parents. The agenda included a listening exercise, an improvisation game, and a quick bullet-point presentation on how intuitive storytelling helps us find the present moment. I was excited about it. I see the middle [...]
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Attention, Affection, Approach and Allowance.
These are the four pillars of Intuitive Storytelling – and what do they all have in common?
The letter A. Alpha.
The sound of openness.
In Eurythmy – the art developed in collaboration [...]
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In the middle of an intuitive storytelling workshop for the Camp Glenbrook staff of roughly fifty councilors, CIT’s and other staff members, I demonstrated an ‘impasse’ in a story, where it was unclear what the central character should do next. I used the first pillar of Intuitive Storytelling, ‘Attention’ and [...]
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By David Sewell McCann
My eldest son was sitting stiffly in the dentist’s chair looking a little pale. The hygienist had just ticked through what was about to unfold and my boy wanted no part of it. He wished to be brave, however, and he locked his eyes on me and asked, “Can you [...]
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A Book Review by Nancy Parsons
Homemaking as a Social Art: Creating a Home for Body, Soul and Spirit Veronika van Duin
$24.00
I longed for a book like this when I was a young mother and wife. I felt so alone in my desire to create a home in [...]
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With the recent earthquake in Japan, resulting in the instability of several nuclear reactors, many people have been asking what they can do to protect themselves from radiation exposure or poisoning, or what they can do to naturally detoxify their system if they are exposed. The following is a compilation of the research I have [...]
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Let’s remember to make every single day Earth day. We live in relationship with the earth and her rhythms. What are some things we can do with our children to nurture our relationship to Mother Earth and her rhythms as well as to care for her?
1. Approach life with awe and wonder. Stop [...]
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“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”- Elizabeth Lawrence
The first grade child is still in a consciousness of at-one-with-the natural world. First graders, kindergarteners and nursery children experience nature through song, story and verse in the Waldorf [...]
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Here’s a peek at Nature Tables from all around. Send us a photo of yours and we’ll post it here with a link back to your site.
This is from Marianne Frost’s Ruby Morning Playgarden:
Mrs. Thaw close up:
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I am a chicken farmer. Well, I’m a writer who owns a chicken ranch. Or, to tell the truth, really my family keeps a few hens in our suburban backyard in California. Oh, and as of February 17, we now have ten growing chicks in our house, too. So, although we didn’t set out to [...]
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