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Annual Educators for Higher Consciousness Conference August 13-14, 2018
2018 Conference Schedule
Education for Life Conference Schedule for 2018
August 13 & 14, at Ananda Village, Nevada City, California
Monday
6:15-7:45 Meditation at Crystal Hermitage Moksha Mandir
8:00 Breakfast on own (Market open)
8:30-9 welcome and name tags
9:00-10:30 Workshop Progressive Development & Teaching
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Discussion on Media Effects and Guidelines
12:30 Lunch on own (Market & EL open)
2-3:45 Teacher Exchange for each Stage of Maturity in classrooms
4:30 Car Pool to MR
5:00 Sadhana at MR Temple of Silence
6:30 Dinner at MR $10
7:30-8:30 Interactive EFL Game at MR Temple of Silence
Tuesday:
6:15-7:45 Meditation & Yoga at Crystal Hermitage Dome
8:00 Breakfast provided at CH, in silence until 8:30
9:00-10:00 Workshop @ CH Entering the Child’s World & Student Snapshots
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:15 Sharing @ CH on Service Learning
11:15-11:45 Break
11:45-12:45 Presentation @ Village Lawn/Community Center Creative Cooperative Games
12:45 Lunch on own (Market & EL open)
2:00-3:30 Workshop @ LWC: Creativity
3:30-4:00 EFL Success Sharing, Photo and Closing @ LWC
Go With Love!
Events at the Living Wisdom Center (LWC) unless noted otherwise: MR = Meditation Retreat, CH =
Crystal Hermitage
Events in bold will be streamed online
Payments
Cost for the conference is $150 (housing and food not included). EFL staff should check with their director. Checks can be made out to EFL International and mailed to 14618 Tyler Foote Road, Box 198, Nevada City, CA 95959. For more information contact Irene at irene@edforlife.org.
Watch Online
All are welcome to watch the main presentations online. Please contact Irene (irene@edforlife.org) to be added to our 2018 virtual participants’ list.
Conference Highlights
- The EFL teachers that have been in the classroom and behind the scenes for 10, 20, 30, or 40 years, and are so full of life and love and inspiration!
- The EFL Conference is fun! I enjoyed hearing success stories.
- The collective enthusiasm, dedication, and devotion that all the teachers exude for Education for Life.
- I love the star curriculum map! I am going to use it to plan my big units this year.
- I was inspired by the research-based presentations.
- I saw the importance of having fun, and how to use it to raise consciousness
- Learning to trust that I can dedicate time for mindful activities without feeling I’m taking time away from academics.
Watch a video of conference highlights
You can see highlights of the 2017 Conference at this link.
Education for Life Blogs
Joyful Education: Forty Years and Counting
by Nitai Deranja
In this blog I’d like to share various vignettes and insights that have come to me in the course of exploring our Education for Life philosophy.
A Living Wisdom School Blog
by Rachel Van Boven and Rose Neal
by Rachel Van Boven and Rose Neal
A Cucumber Seed is a blog devoted to telling the story of Living Wisdom Schools and Education for Life.
Educating Preschool Students From the “Inside Out”
by Chandi Holliman
Preschool-Kindergarten teacher shares inspiration and activities that work.
Education for Life in Public School
by Elizabeth Aguilar
Documenting how the EFL principles translate into the public school system.
Live in Laughter
by Premi Grenell
Co-creative, child-centered, experiential, and joyful. “Lightly I walk,” “Hands on!” “Proof is the pudding!”
by Premi Grenell
Co-creative, child-centered, experiential, and joyful. “Lightly I walk,” “Hands on!” “Proof is the pudding!”
More Than the Car
by Brian Powers
Welcome friends, to the Living Wisdom School’s Vintage Car Restoration and Preservation honors elective.
From Two-year-olds to Teenagers
by Irene Schulman
Experiences and valuable lessons I have learned from students of all ages.
Core Principles of Education for Life
Progressive Development and Specific Gravity
Progressive Development is the central principle of Education for Life, providing the underlying map for all-around student development. Generally speaking, growth along this dimension is motivated by a person’s desire to avoid pain and to achieve happiness.
Specific Gravity identifies the general level of consciousness along the Progressive Development spectrum that a particular child tends to manifest, so we can help guide them.
Curriculum Categories
Education for Life is child-centered, in the sense that every aspect of school should be focused on supporting the all-around, balanced development of each student.
The Tools and Stages of Maturity
The Goal of Maturity: As people advance along the Progressive Development scale, they experience a gradual expansion of consciousness that in Education for Life is defined as Maturity, or “the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.” The primary means for developing this ability are the Body, Feelings, Will, and Intellect, which are referred to as the Tools of Maturity.
Flow Learning
Flow Learning™ is easily adapted from its origins in nature education to a broad-based approach that lets teachers in any discipline help students gain an intuitive as well as an intellectual understanding of the subject matter. There are four phases to the process: Awaken Enthusiasm, Focus Attention, Direct Experience, and Share Inspiration. Read an interview with Joseph Bharat Cornell, founder of Flow Learning and the Sharing Nature Worldwide organization.
See 2017 Conference Schedule (PDF)