Soul Essence Education considers a reverence for life, an integration of family and community, and a respect for our elders as the fundamental building blocks for a healthy and well-functioning society. Therefore, we cultivate sacredness, respect and oneness consciousness as the foundation for any future learning.
Nestled in such an environment, each child freely explores their inner vocations and the boundless adventures of their learning paths. On this educational journey, we accompany each student by offering a basic curriculum upon which he or she builds out a personal curriculum.
The Basic Curriculum functions as a guideline for the educator and as a grounding foundation for the student. Specific to each Soul Phase, it offers the appropriate activities and approach in order to awaken and further the oneness consciousness in each child. Soul Essence Education understands that without an awareness of oneness, in other words, without a collective consciousness, we can never truly be fulfilled. Therefore, the basic curriculum lays the foundation whereupon the child can blossom into its full potential for the betterment of all life.
Nurtured within such oneness consciousness, personal growth can safely happen. Inspired by their interest and passions, students make up their Personal Curriculum. We acknowledge and honor the choices each one makes. We leave behind preset educational programs or preset notions about age specific teachings. We trust the child’s own timing for learning.
The educator observes each student very carefully in order to accompany them toward a harmonious development through physical, artistic and intellectual achievements. Any emotional reluctance or blockage will be addressed and resolved in a gentle manner. In the same gentle way, all personal curricula will be harmonized within the consciousness of oneness, for the betterment of all and everything. To build out their personal curriculum, the students present their desires for courses and look for a mentor that answers this request. In addition, the school organizes seasonal school gatherings where mentors have the possibility to present their expertise offering students choices.
And what about Academics ?!?
We place intellectual achievement
as a tool to one’s self-expression of love.
Our curriculum renovates the three R’s of today’s school system
(Reading, Writing and Arithmetic)
into three L’s: Living, Loving and Learning together.
What can be more important than Living? What can be more important than life, your life, the life you can create? That life is in you as a seed with all its potential to flourish into the full expression of its beauty, magnificence and uniqueness.
Life is powerful. Life is a force that transcends time and space. Yet, for life to express itself into manifestation, it requires water. Without water, the seed stays a seed and keeps its potential growth within. Water, the symbol for Loving, is the fundamental and essential element to instigate the seed into its development.
Becoming the divine being you are, is a process. The seed grows into a tree by putting its roots out. Rooting yourself is Learning to become who you are. Learning is that inner journey of exploration of your unseen potential into a visible manifestation. When we cut the roots from the tree, the tree will die. When we cut off the journey of exploration, the self-expression will not survive. Learning is not ‘to be taught.’ Learning is discovering ‘who you divinely are!’
It can only happen in its magnificence where the divine life is honored and true love is offered!
Such a way of Living, Loving and Learning stimulates our innate curiosity and passion. Discovering ‘who you truly, divinely, are’ ushers you into an intricate understanding of life, creation and the universe.
Such study goes further than the outside, objective observations. Soul Essence Education recognizes that our soul creates our reality. Today’s science explores the inner, subjective world of nature and shows that one’s consciousness influences how one experiences reality. Our education fosters the deep meaning of this statement. Our students receive the opportunity to explore their inner world, the soul world.
The essence of the soul world is a loving co-creation. From that state of mind, consciousness experiences the merging of the heart and the mind. The mind will look through the eyes of love; the mind’s understanding will perceive the inner essence of oneself and of nature.
Such knowledge is given according to the degree of love. When we link learning and loving intrinsically with each other, consciousness opens up towards new sciences that surpass anything we could even imagine. Together they will bring about new aspects in life, unnoticed before. ‘Living, Loving and Learning together’ represent the three fundamental subjects in our educational curriculum.
In this ambiance of ‘Living, Loving and Learning’ it is safe to develop intellectual faculties and explore abstract and complex thinking. Soul Essence Education fosters the capacity for imagination to be the foundation for intellectual understanding and the expansion of all its possibilities.
We are born with an innate capacity for imagination. It represents an open door towards the soul world and is very alive in a young child. Imagination is a faculty of the heart that allows images to arise in our consciousness. Those images speak to our consciousness in a way that is far more elaborate than outside explanations. Foremost, those images touch our heart and anchor within the realm of our feelings. In this way, abstract thinking is grounded into a real experience and will be authentic for the student.
Through the specific knowledge of each science we learn the connections that maintain this miracle called life. Soul Essence Education brings forth how the study of science offers a doorway through which one may discover the Beauty of Creation. In doing so we connect with the sacredness of science. Such sacred awareness awakens our intrinsic divine responsibility as a human, intelligent being:
