Jagriti 53rd Batch

Listening and looking for feelings, accepting and acknowledging them and receiving feelings is a NEW language for many of us. Learning a NEW language, one of the feelings, does not mean that our other languages, of denying feelings, giving solutions, doling out gyan, reprimanding, sympathizing etc, was wrong. It only means that we are learning a new language while keeping the old languages with us. Learning a new language of understanding, only means we are increasing our choices. We have one more way of connecting to the child .   At this link you will find a workout for the session on feelings (workbook in PDF format). Please download it or save it in your google drive or print it. You can either just refer to it or fill it on paper or online using an online PDF editor or simply use it to do your own thinking in a notebook. You need not share with us in email, though parts of it you can share in Whatsapp group as per your wish. Recordings of all sessions are added to  this  YOUTUB...

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When we see through one window - we only see a limited view. The view itself is neither good nor bad, though we may like it or not. To change the view, one option is to change the view itself (eg change my behaviour, change the child or change the world) To change the view, another option is to change the window - which will give us another view. Also, Sometimes, I may change the window not to change anything, but just to enjoy another view. In which case now I have two views to keep. and so on. Some of us, once we open another window and get a new view, like to share the same with others. These are called bloggers, authors, poets, scientists, journalists, social workers, activists, and FRIENDS Posting your thoughts/experiences in WhatsApp group helps you open your windows as well helps others see new ones. That is why its called a community. That's why we want you to be our friend.

Session #3 - Feelings (this friday) The preparation is also available on Jagriti blog at this link 1. Look at the comic strip below. What are your thoughts? 2. Think of an y unacceptable behaviour of your child. If you do not have own child - this could be anybody else behaving with you in an unacceptable way - but preferably a child. Now fill up this online form . Please use only 2-5 words in each line. You can fill the form multiple times for different unacceptable situations. After submitting , what are your thoughts? 3. Watch this video (of a girl who does not want to go to school)- what specifically you learn from this video. 4. Watch this video (a clip from the movie I AM SAM) - think what would you say or do if you were the waitress . 5a. Today, the whole day, carry with you a small card or a notepad (or use your smartphone) and keep making note of the different feelings you experience during your day. Keep writing against each of the feeling - what/who was responsible...

Session #3 - Feelings 1. Look at the comic strip below. What are your thoughts? 2. Think of an y unacceptable behaviour of your child. If you do not have own child - this could be anybody else behaving with you in an unacceptable way - but preferably a child. Now fill up this online form . Please use only 2-5 words in each line. You can fill the form multiple times for different unacceptable situations. After submitting , what are your thoughts? 3. Watch this video (of a girl who does not want to go to school)- what specifically you learn from this video. 4. Watch this video (a clip from the movie I AM SAM) - think what would you say or do if you were the waitress . 5a. Today, the whole day, carry with you a small card or a notepad (or use your smartphone) and keep making note of the different feelings you experience during your day. Keep writing against each of the feeling - what/who was responsible for the feeling. 5b. In the same diary, against each of the feeling add - what ...

Many times we justify our beliefs based on our experience. But experience is a deceptive teacher.  We can never be sure what we have learned is valuable or not. Maybe what the experience has taught to us is relevant and meaningful. Maybe the experience is only causing us to adopt beliefs which are blocking, limiting or hampering us. Maybe. Which is why children - who are yet not contaminated or conditioned can often throw completely startling beliefs at us. But we think we are wiser. Really? Or we simply know more and knowing can be such a block to exploring. No wonder children learn much faster than us. Is the belief we get from exp erience more valuable than other beliefs? How can we be so sure? One way to look at experience is to call it stale learning. How will it be if we discard our experience as just an occurrence. What will happen if we emptied our cups to accept fresh learnings. Or maybe we kept many cups and kept taking new 'thoughts', neither as superior or inferior ...

I do not want to be tied down with my own beliefs. I do not want to imprison myself within my room of truths. I want to be FREE. All I need to do is to question, challenge, doubt myself. This makes me aware. Then I could play around with my views and experiment with my beliefs Also, I can open myself to others to question me, poke me, push me, pull me and I can do the same to others. Maybe all I need is a mind ready to learn, unlearn, relearn Or all I need to learn is to say (to myself): " Maybe ". At this link you will find a workout for the session Beliefs (workbook in PDF format). Please download it or save it in your google drive. You can either just refer to it or fill it online using an online PDF editor or simply use it to do your own thinking in a notebook. You need not share with us in email, though parts of it you can share in Whatsapp group as per your wish. Recordings of all sessions are added to  this  YOUTUBE PLAYLIST   We will not be sending individual rec...

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A man who wants to learn ZEN gets redirected to a small tea shop that an elderly lady runs. He goes and asks her, "Can you teach me Zen?" The elderly lady, in response, SLAPS him hard. Shocked, the man runs aways only to come back the next day, disguised, just to find out why she slapped him. He quietly sits in one corner of her shop, afraid that he may get slapped again. As he sits there, he observes . He observes how she makes the tea, how she serves her customers and how her whole shop is and he observes every little detail about this lady and her tea shop and thereby he learns  ZEN. When somebody tells us that he or she wants to learn about children or how to facilitate them, we recommend three things you must do and those are: Observe  Observe     Observe   Most of what we have learned about children has actually come about because we observed and are still observing and learning. Which is why when people want to learn from us, we gently, but firmly turn them to learn fr...

  1. The next meal that you are having with family - do this. Please follow the instruction completely: After the meal you can click here (do not click here without doing the above)

I guess most of us like to take things easy. Children do too.  So you can often see them shirking from taking the tough way. But many times they take up the tough way. I guess the shirking happens more in tasks determined as important by us (eg: taking a bath). Obviously, initiative happens in things that they like. If this is how it is, then would it make sense for us to bring things to children in such a way that they like, and if they don't, then not expect it. So here is a situation: A child instead of writing a report on the trip he just came from, shares umpteen details with her friends. Is she in the comfort zone or the Challenging zone? What can we, as parents, do about it? Share your thoughts in Whatsapp. If you are lost regarding the zones, chances are you missed attending the first session - do catch up on the recording or read a small note below:  Lev Vygotsky's Theory of proximal development . The three zones  (comfort, challenge and frustration) which ...

Learning is... One of the biggest misconceptions modern education has taught us about learning is that it is immediate, specific and clear. Which is why modern education demands that the results of the learning can be tested, analysed and judged. So when the teacher teaches, say, Archimedes principle, it is expected that the learner would immediately know what is the principle, would be able to understand it separately and uniquely from whatever else the child knows ( specific ) and that the principle is amply clear in the child's mind. In this way learning is considered to be binary - you don't know, I teach and snap! now you know. But in my experience as a learner and as an observer of other learners, almost all - learning is slow (builds over time), it is messed up or mixed up with all that we know and it is confusing. I guess even for Archimedes it took a lot of time to learn it, and in that process, his thoughts were constantly changing and the understanding dawned, the Eu...

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Hi All Some of you are addressing us  as "Sir" or "Madam" But , w e 'Sir /Madam ' not. W e only a bell. In fact,  each one of us in this batch is a bell . It ' s is none of our responsibility that Jagriti sessions give you some value. It is your responsibility. You want sound? You strike the bell. You want to learn? You ask questions, counter thoughts, initiate discussions, participate ... You ring the bell. We start today. Timing of all sessions is 9 pm to 11pm -  2 hours For all our Jagriti sessions we would be using Zoom web conferencing.   Please  use this link  for all the sessions. ( Meeting ID: 419 708 176 with password:  awaken )     We  will login at 8 :30pm today - half an hour early - just in case you want to drop in early to check zoom in your laptop or mobile device . Looking forward to each one of us ringing lots of bells - Let ' s make cacophony! Do ensure you have joined the whatsapp group of the Jagriti batch -  Click here to join ...

I was chatting with a friend of mine and was suggesting she write blogs. She remarked that she was not good at writing. I said, "I never told you to write good blogs. I only asked you to write blogs - where did this GOOD come into the picture?" So many of us are trapped in this thing called GOOD. Can we not just do what we want to do and enjoy doing it. Not sure why so many parents stress upon children performing "good". Not sure why teachers do that. All I can think of is the value of doing . What I don't want to think is the horror of trying to do good. I prefer doing over doing good . What say you? We start DOING from friday night, 23rd Oct 2020  at 9pm  with  the first session For attending ALL the Jagriti   sessions  we will  be   using this ZOOM link Or you can use zoom meeting Meeting ID: 419 708 176 with password: awaken Pl do not share this link with anybody. Meanwhile,  If you are new to zoom - read on On smartphones install zoom app -  Android ...

The most disturbing thing about  Jagriti  is that it will not comfort you . The most comforting thing about  Jagriti  is that it will disturb you . If we  try to answer/solve your questions/problems, then  we will be called a QUACK If we  try to shake some of your unshakable ideas, then  we will be called a QUAKE Which one do you prefer? Either way, the action starts this  friday evening , 23rd Oct 2020  at 9pm  with  the first session For attending ALL the  Jagriti   sessions  we will  be   using this ZOOM link Or you can use zoom meeting Meeting ID: 419 708 176 with password: awaken Pl do not share this link with anybody. Meanwhile,  If you are new to zoom - read on On smartphones install zoom app -  Android app here  and  i-phone here On laptop/desktop - preferably  download their app here  but you can always attend the meetings directly from the browser. NOTES: This link is the same for all sessions. When you are logging in - when prompted - click on USE COMPUTER AUDIO  or USE DE...