GlobeStarNAVIGATOR_Spring 2014

NAVIGATING THE HEART

THENAVIGATOR SPRING 2014 Volume 8, Spring Issue

THE NAVIGATOR

GLOBE

STAR

mentoring a spirit of gentleness for individuals with disabilities

Gr wing together in a CULTURE of gentleness,

Learning and living in a CONNECTED community

Gentle Teaching is a person- immanent potential; (4) that this dynamic of

centered model of relationship- relating to one another benefits all persons and

based learning and moral excludes no one.

development. Being person-

centered instead of program- As we build collaborative relationships with
centered is what gives Gentle Gentle Teaching and reflect upon each one’s

Teaching its organic nature that
authentic, human nature and the elements that

cultivates a natural, learning environment and naturally support each one’s growth and

develops a growing community of gentleness.
development, we can see how these reflective

processes create the lighting for the framework

Having an organic or holistic nature is about an that recognizes basic, social/emotional needs of a

intrinsic capacity to develop and grow, human being and the inherent longing for

dependent on needed elements being available internal harmony that is basic to each person,

for cultivating this in the environment.
without exception.

As plants and trees can thrive in good soil with Gentle Teaching cultivates one’s intrinsic

varying amounts of sun and rain, so, too, human capacity to develop and grow, nurturing grounds

beings can thrive when trust can take root and of trust with elements of companionship that

one can feel that they are loved and that they value, teach, protect and reciprocate. The

belong, inseparably, to a greater context of person-centered model that engages through

being, with others, in a supportive, learning relationship-based learning, builds a sustainable

environment and in a living, celebrated structure for one’s life, upheld by the four pillars

community.
of language in a culture of gentleness: safe,

loved, loving, engaged. These four goals for
Being able to reflect upon human nature and the teaching and communicating invite and

elements that naturally support human growth encourage engagement and the integration of

and development is to think about, ‘how are we meaning and new moral memory for a person’s

connected?‘ ‘How do I relate to others?’ Gentle social/emotional aspect of awareness and

Teaching generates the quality of compassion as development, cultivating gentleness and

the organizational thread that connects us with expanding the learning environment into

one another. Its aesthetic value and guiding

inclined by the human condition to develop
(cont. on p. 2)

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