By Mick Quinn and Debora Prieto | Co-Founders
We would like to begin this last report of the year with deep gratitude and thankfulness. Our students are brilliant so are our donors. We have had the honor of sharing a wonderful year full of potential and great surprises, and the best part is that it is not over yet.
The official school year ends in Guatemala at the end of October. During out last class then we asked the teens to tells us what they liked the most about this Critical-Thinking/Integral Philosophy Program, to share with us those insights that were more impactful for them over the year. This is what they came up with:
What they loved the most over the year:
- The talks on suicide
- The four perspectives in which all reality arises
- The use of meditation for being more calm and balanced
- Bringing in other teachers and engaging with their points of view
- Using the four quadrants as a tool to solve problems
- The inter-dependence of the four quadrants
- The power of transmitting knowledge to younger generations
As homework for their school holiday until we start up again January of 2015 we assigned our students to read the book “Love, Marriage and Evolution” by Amy Edelstein (translated by our co-founder Debora Prieto) and to write a report on their impressions. They are also reading “Integral Vision” by Ken Wiber.
This homework ensures that their potential and wisdom keeps growing over the holidays.
But as we said, the year is not over yet and the icing of the cake was the visit of Terry Patten to Guatemala. He did some home visits with us to see where our students live, participated with us in our annual meditate to educate day. And Terry also led a full day workshop with the title “Every Moment Is A Practice”.
We can summarize the whole visit in Jessica’s words (in the picture below): “On Saturday I understood the meaning of breathing to and from the heart; today I really embodied and I now know what it really means in a deeper and more integral sense”.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts to all of you who made this possible: all our donors, advisers, staff, lectures and, of course, our students. And please, have a wonderful and love-filled Holiday.
The Integral Heart Foundation.
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