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- 6. Be aware of the influence of personal inner experiences on classroom events, and to have the ability to work with the personal and subjective inner and outer world experiences.
- 7. Be able to sense the emotions of others, identify emotions, and, on occasion, articulate them.
- 8. Focus on the heart of individuals and on the heart of the classroom community.
- 9. Know that acceptance does not preclude limits, responsibility, or even disliking.
- 10. Realize that community development is an underlying value, and to facilitate this development.
- 11. Be knowledgeable about the psychological dimension related to individuals, intersubjective, and group experience within the educational environment.
- 12. Be aware of the so-called external forces, such as family, peers, culture, and educational values and methods, that impinge on the educator, the learners, and the entire ethos of the educational environment.
- 13. Be attuned to the idea that there are unconscious forces at play that have a powerful influence on life in and out of classrooms.
- 14. Be sensitive and open to the possibility that there is something beyond the individual that lies within and behind all things and permeates a classroom.
- 15. Be aware of the soul’s blueprint for each person, or at least that this is present.
- 16. Be conscious of the blueprint of the classroom community’s soul.
Education needs to shift from the purely discursive and rational to the heart of being of individuals, groups, and all things. What do I mean by the heart of being? I do not mean only emotions. I do not mean just thoughts. I do not mean just physical reactions. I do not mean vague or even strongly felt intuitions on their own. I do mean an integrated sense of being, emotionally, intellectually, physically, and intuitively, that is responsive, reflective, and proactive in the world, that is reaching for a depth and breadth of meaning in a natural, therefore optimally energetic way (wu-wei in Daoism), and that seeks the source of all things.