Teaching in the Spirit

Teaching in the Spirit:

I spent many years working as a classroom teaching in the Public

Education system. I later specialized in working with kids with social, emotional and behavourial issues. It was a wonderful, wacky, and sometimes frustrating ride, and I came to know some very special young people.

My main takeaway was that everyday we teach in the same worn out paradigm, we are missing an amazing opportunity to show our kids there is a better way to live. 

As adults we may think we have life all sussed out. But we're stuck in Ground Hog day. The same old shit just repeats itself in every generation. 

The world won't change through through religion, politics or even activism. It will come from each person who passes through it. If our kids come to an awareness of who they really are, learning compassion and equanimity, then maybe there is a chance for a better world. 

That gives adults a pretty awesome responsibility. We can't just wing it anymore. Perhaps we have to first admit that we haven't been doing such a crack up job of guiding our youth.

Teaching in the Spirit is meant to be a path to helping our kids towards that better way of living. Drawing on many of the messages of the masters throughout history, with practical ways of implementing them in the classroom, it offers teachers and others who work with kids, ways of putting meaning into instruction, without upsetting the sacred apple cart.