©
Dick Rauscher
The
art of creative spiritually parenting is an important part of any spiritual
journey in life. The future of our world requires that we become
skilled in helping our children grow into the authentic persons that
they were meant to be.
Attachment
theory is showing us clearly that it is only when our children experience a
safe and secure base, where their attachment needs to others are fully
satisfied, can they move out into the world confident and trusting
enough to explore, grow, and mature
Creative
parenting enables and encourages children to explore and discover what
they care about. What is really important to them. Spiritually
mature parenting helps children learn that to be happy in life, they
need to learn how to give in healthy ways to others. To put others
first without losing site of their own spiritual needs. Creative
parenting encourages exploration into self awareness. Spiritually
mature parenting teaches children the spiritual disciplines required
to walk the middle path in life. A self-aware life path that
embraces all truth, and teaches children how
to live their lives in ways that does no harm to others or to the earth
they live on.
Finally,
creative and spiritually mature parenting teaches children that for
creation to be perfect it requires all of creation
working together. It teaches children that diversity is not simply
a democratic concept, it is an essential part of reality. It
teaches them that a spiritually mature developmental path requires
that we learn to transcend a procreation focused humanity and develop
into spiritually mature “universal humans” with the skills
required to live in community as co-creators with all of Creation.......to
become a spiritually mature human species that has the spiritual maturity
to live with all of Creation and do no harm to it.
Parenting
workshops offered here at Stonyhill focus on becoming creative and
spiritually mature parents. The primary focus of our parenting workshops
is grounded in attachment and the developmental needs of children,
and the various spiritual practices that work to support those important
developmental needs. We can only lead others as far into the
wilderness as we have been willing to travel ourselves. Stonyhill is
dedicated to training parents the skills needed to lead their children
confidently into the wilderness of our modern world.
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