On February 15 and 16, the cycle of regular meetings with families began in the Parque Tibetano School, with the psychologist Celina Estela Santo as the leader.

With significant experience in guiding parents in the field of education, Celina and the managing team feel it is important to have a discussion with parents and teachers on the stages of the development of children and youths, in order to generate pertinent thoughts about each age group and about common challenges that concern education.

Aline Rezende, 4th year teacher in the School and mother of two students, believes that these moments of reflection on the process of creation are essential, because she sees in the similarity of the situations experienced by parents, the possibility of discussing among one another with the mediation of a person “that brings up the subject with appropriateness and lightheartedness at the same time,” being able not to reflect “from a position of guilt, but rather to go in another, more balanced direction … and that is what the child will remember,” she comments.

Begun in 2019, these meetings developed because of the need for information and guidance on child development and the complexity of the challenges family life brings.  In this way, the objective is to build spaces so that these families can share the issues experienced with the children, so that, from this point on, they may come into contact with knowledge  that allows them to reflect and absorb new ways of conducting education.

In this beginning of the cycle, conducted under the light of Psychology,  Anthroposophy in particular, various subjects were addressed, guiding and clarifying doubts of the families regarding the stages of development of their children, which are in the School range of ages  3 to 15.

  

While the 26 parents participated in the round of conversation, 5 volunteer teachers accompanied the children in activities that had to do with the Plant Kingdom, games, chalk design, and free play.

Diego, the father of a student, felt the wealth of that experience, which brings light to the specifics of the growth of the child. Remembering a talk of Trigueirinho on education, Diego also speaks about self-knowledge as a guide in the way of teaching, since “the real learning for children will be what we live around them,” he says, considering as very important the continuity of this nourishment he experienced in this first meeting.

The Parque Tibetano School is an institution of formal education, free of charge, made up of volunteers, and is aware that education is something alive, because it goes beyond the the classroom, and that, when welcoming a child, the school also welcomes the whole family.

The meeting was a collaboration between the Light-Community of Figueira and the House of Light on the Hill.

Find out more about the Parque Tibetano School, contact it by phone: +55 35 99975 7228 – Luciana, or send an email to: coordenacao.escola@comunidadefigueira.org.br