Creativity Is Movin’ On Up (With Our Help)!
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What’s YOUR take on all this? I look forward to hearing what you have to say on this subject and seeing the positive change that will no doubt come about in your family life and community involvement… especially if you’re teaching by example.
Remember, next week you won’t get TRIKAYA TUESDAY in your inbox. We’re scaling back to once/2 weeks. We’ll try it out for awhile and see how it goes. If you want more, all you have to do is ASK.
Have a blast today, and do one thing that truly scares you.
I’m serious.
All the love,
Kris
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I totally agree. I think there should be equal emphasis on finding and developing a child’s natural talents and tendencies as there is on general studies. It’s definitely the way we need to redirect our education systems, but I believe it starts in the family. This was very insightful. Thank you SO much for sharing it. I’m bummed that I won’t get Trikaya Tuesday next week. Why are you changing the frequency? I wonder if others feel this same way?
Excellent clip and it makes perfect sense. We do tend to stifle our children’s creativity for the sake of mental education. I am sending this to my friends in education. Thanks
P.S. I am sorry that we won’t be receiving the newsletter once a week. It is always a high point of my week.
Kris, please don’t stop the weekly messages. Your Tuesday messages keep me connected to the world outside myself and feed me hope for our Universe. I have no idea how you find these marvelous messages but they are critical to my evolution. A week without the Tuesday Triakya email, reminding me how fantastic Life is and how important it is for me to make a differnce and contribute to It, would have a huge missing for me. You make a differnce that ripples throught millions of lives that touch all of us who spread your passion. Please reconsider and thanks so much for all you do!!
I’ve seen this video before and it always inspires me to see the talents and gifts of my children. Thanks for the review! It also makes me look at myself in a different way and see my talents that I suppress because they may not fall into what society thinks is valuable.
Kris:
I respect your decision in whatever you decide. I do highly recommend getting on TED Newsletters or visiting their website. There’s many videos of talks to choose from. Wide range of subjects.
Graham Nash’s wrote “Teach Your Children” back in 1970 and it remains one of his best songs. Often, audience are encouraged to sing at CSN and everyone applauds each other.
Know they love you.
I don’t even remember being a child, I was always a mini adult. The message is powerful. I hope we listen. I believe
Ansel Adams had a similiar experience in school during that
time period, and although his father home schooled him grooming him as a pianist, Ansel created a new outlet, photography as art for enjoyment. He may not have had that chance without his father’s homeschooling efforts. What a pity it would have been to miss that! The message is definitely one critical for our conscious evolution.
PS will miss the weekly message, maybe teach us to do our own creative searches based on our particular growth needs.
I’m lucky. I was educated in public schools in Ohio and Pennsylvania back in the day…I was taught by public schools how to play the clarinet from the 4th grade through my senior year. I also had art classes as a standard part of the curriculum through my senior year, as well as PE. Physical education was not some lame activity. I was quite the accomplished gymnast. In addition I had 4 years of Latin as well as physiology and trig and calculus. What happened to public education I can’t understand. But it is true, that when I graduated valedictorian with a 4.o and wanted to go to art school, my parents said, “NO.” “Valedictorians don’t go to art school.” So, yes, he is correct. Down the years watching my two sons grow up and go to the best public schools in San Diego County, they were truly not encouraged to be who they are. One son blew it all up and took his own road, refusing to be “brain washed.” Although he was definitely made out to be a “bad boy”.
I’m encouraged to see that the public school system as it is now is crumbling; I truly hope it is replaced with Montessori type environments that allow each to find his own voice and support that. All is well. Things are changing perfectly.
I truly enjoyed this jewel of radiant light that is a fantastic reminder/wake up call for us ALL to pay attention + actively participate in the evolving education system for our children. The public school system is beyond just a 9-1-1 call. It is not just a resuscitation trip to the ER. It is in need of a major heart transplant! Figuratively + literally.
I was blessed with a private school foundation. My entire life remains greatly impacted as the person that I am evolving into from this unique + elite opportunity. Though I am not the Ive Leaguer as many of my classmates were, I know that studying French from the 1st grade through 10th grade gave me an unmistakable AWARENESS of a bigger world outside my own neighborhood. Even with the high caliber academics placed before me, I was “programmed” to succeed. I was also lucky to have my mother encourage my creativity constantly. Thanks, Mom!
While I have never captured the “American Dream” as my own, I am immensely grateful for the education that I had, the small classes I was fortunate enough to have, and a system that did encourage drama, the arts as well as all the top tier academics. What I also got was the gift to think, broadly; some of that came from school + some from the family. To the extent that I have learned to solve problems creatively + choose to live outside of the box others call success.
We cannot, must not, forget the lessons we offer our children EVERY single moment of EVERY single day. Even when we think they are too young to understand, their curious + open brain receives impressions that they may NEVER understand. But a contradiction is still conflict. A positive sign of reinforcement is still SUPPORT. A harsh criticism or belittling remark is NOT love. And these elements in the home have perhaps MORE impact than the bully at school or a teacher who is not prepared for a gifted student.
As I read the concept of “HOPE” that Daniel Goleman creatively explores as part of “Emotional Intelligence”, I cognitively + emotionally embrace this factor as a strong indicator of success. I have seen what a difference it makes in my own life, in my own family and see others who have struggled painfully without it. If we do not offer our children hope, what is the love that we offer them?
As always, thanks for the fuel!
This man and what he has to say is so inspiring and brilliant. Thank you for posting his lecture, Kris. I nearly cried twice and can’t count on both hands how many times I laughed. Someday there will be a “superhero” school that paves the way for creativity and movement in education to be at the top of the list. I have personally felt pressured by family and the educational system to do something “reasonable” and brainy. People I love very much who were brilliant in the arts fell back on a job “in the system” and have regretted it their whole lives, feeling unable to be accomplished financially and emotionally in “the real world.” I am hopeful for this positive shift in thinking and teaching to embrace the arts with wide open arms.
Hi Kraig (and Kris) you were my original mentor in DT. I always appreciated the great work you did their and now finally see why you moved on. Your brillance and Kris’s needed a way to allow itself to blow -up. Thanks for taking on what you have. I’m 67 years old and a retired educator. And from the time I entered I always wondered seeing it from the inside how it continued to function. Now I see a bit of what keeps it in place. Thanks for the exposure and Thank You and Kris for the contribution you are making in your new way.