Description

This collection of keynote lectures from the WECAN Annual East Coast Conference 2014-2016 offers keenly observed and researched insights on how to assist the development of children's comfortable orientation in the world.

It also explores how educators and caregivers can support and strengthen their own sense of well-being.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Nancy Blanning

The Elixirs of Life by Susan Weber

Observing Life Sense Development by Ruth Ker

The Early Childhood Setting

How can we support the health of the developing life sense?

How can we actively set about developing our own soul-spiritual capacities?

What is earthly and cosmic nutrition?

Enlivening the Life Forces: Lessons from The Donkey by Patricia Rubano

Nurturing the Sense of Life and Well-Being by Adam Blanning, M.D.

Looking at Our Own Sleep Patterns to a Picture of this Pathway

The Life Sense from the Perspective of Point and Periphery by Barbara Baldwin

The Life Sense in Life

Point and Periphery Becomes Circle and Point in Curative Education

The Social Aspect of Point and Periphery

The Health of the Senses

Selected Bibliography and Recommended Resource