
Spirit Course: Your Own Inner Teacher
Join us for this series of four vitally interesting and important courses on how we might meet the spiritual needs of our children. A topic we may have never considered before, but just as children have physical, mental, and emotional needs, so they have deep spiritual needs. These needs are not dependent on religion, but religion is one of many supports we can offer. This course focuses on you – and what Maria Montessori called the spiritual preparation of the teacher. We go in depth into the transformation of the adult that may be yours as you participate in the internal changes you see, both in yourself and in the children you are privileged to work with. We offer in this unit practical means to unfold the process of normalization within the child, when through concentration on appropriate work in the environment, children calm down and seem to find their own center. Montessori wrote about the spirit of the child and an amazing comparison between the life of Christ and the life