Love this so much! With my students, we always sit in circle at the beginning of class and share something (depending on the season, etc...) but having a consistent ritual with these 4 same questions is brilliant. Can't wait to implement this with my students. Many thanks!
I feel such gratitude for the communication skills I learned during these morning check-ins. Morning circle helped me grow as a relational being and an emotional being.
You definitely put in the time becoming as skilled as you are at relating to yourself, others, and the Earth! It's a pleasure to be your literal and figurative kin!
I agree - creating rituals rooted in caring and relationships is so important - the repetition of the questions is like saying grace at the table - a pause to think and be grateful (if it's being done right - often grace was something enforced as a rules based routine, rather than a ritual of caring)
So maybe in a way - it is not the questions that you share that are the most important - but the way they are asked, and the permission the space gives to responding to them. Sometimes questions get answered "factory" style rather than forest style.
So the idea of ritual rather than routine is about shifting the adult attitude, as well as the attitudes of children (if necessary because they have become blind to the forest) to create the space, freedom and permission to slow down enough to notice - our selves and others (human and more than human) and to create that mwe feeling.
Love this so much! With my students, we always sit in circle at the beginning of class and share something (depending on the season, etc...) but having a consistent ritual with these 4 same questions is brilliant. Can't wait to implement this with my students. Many thanks!
Aww...How sweet! I'm so happy you're finding these posts useful. I'm in that elder stage where passing on what I've learned seems vital to me.
I feel such gratitude for the communication skills I learned during these morning check-ins. Morning circle helped me grow as a relational being and an emotional being.
You definitely put in the time becoming as skilled as you are at relating to yourself, others, and the Earth! It's a pleasure to be your literal and figurative kin!
I agree - creating rituals rooted in caring and relationships is so important - the repetition of the questions is like saying grace at the table - a pause to think and be grateful (if it's being done right - often grace was something enforced as a rules based routine, rather than a ritual of caring)
So maybe in a way - it is not the questions that you share that are the most important - but the way they are asked, and the permission the space gives to responding to them. Sometimes questions get answered "factory" style rather than forest style.
So the idea of ritual rather than routine is about shifting the adult attitude, as well as the attitudes of children (if necessary because they have become blind to the forest) to create the space, freedom and permission to slow down enough to notice - our selves and others (human and more than human) and to create that mwe feeling.
I agree! It comes down to how we are with kids.