Beautiful ideas. I think, if the education system could incorporate something like that along with a milieu that encourages emotional intelligence, we have a shot at making a big shift. I think it’s also where “self-help” stuff and art can merge and become one form in certain instances. I can’t help but to think of play therapy! Or art therapy....it’s in a way already happening but ultimately, we have to want to empower each other in that way. And I think it’s not going to come from the top down. The other day I saw a sign that said: “Everyone wants to change the world but no one wants to change themselves.” We are all complicit in taking the easy, black and white way out. “We”, whoever we are...which is a minority I think like those we deem as the ones in power...have that responsibility to reflect a new paradigm in the way we live and act and through our work and art and for sure through community. But art as the new religion for sure can and will be the next evolutionary shift in consciousness without making it “a new religion” that is...hope we get to see some of that in our lifetime!
Couldn't agree more. Responsibility and accountability for one's own positionality in the world is essential. As education becomes more and more Digital these perspectives have the ability to reach broader audiences, but the support of in-person community driven educational practices is essential to support this. It starts with the individual and it expands up and out from there.
Beautiful ideas. I think, if the education system could incorporate something like that along with a milieu that encourages emotional intelligence, we have a shot at making a big shift. I think it’s also where “self-help” stuff and art can merge and become one form in certain instances. I can’t help but to think of play therapy! Or art therapy....it’s in a way already happening but ultimately, we have to want to empower each other in that way. And I think it’s not going to come from the top down. The other day I saw a sign that said: “Everyone wants to change the world but no one wants to change themselves.” We are all complicit in taking the easy, black and white way out. “We”, whoever we are...which is a minority I think like those we deem as the ones in power...have that responsibility to reflect a new paradigm in the way we live and act and through our work and art and for sure through community. But art as the new religion for sure can and will be the next evolutionary shift in consciousness without making it “a new religion” that is...hope we get to see some of that in our lifetime!
Couldn't agree more. Responsibility and accountability for one's own positionality in the world is essential. As education becomes more and more Digital these perspectives have the ability to reach broader audiences, but the support of in-person community driven educational practices is essential to support this. It starts with the individual and it expands up and out from there.