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    Young People Growing Up: Children’s Education in the Federation of Communities
    Young People Growing Up: Children’s Education in the Federation of Communities
    Young People Growing Up: Children’s Education in the Federation of Communities
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    Young People Growing Up: Children’s Education in the Federation of Communities

    By Stambecco Pesco

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    How do Damanhurian educate their children?

 According to what values? 

What does it mean to guide them towards their future choices?

 This is the story of what it means to be parents living in a community, seeking and finding formulae to help their children be happy and independent.



Damanhur, with more than forty years of history and thousands of followers all over the world, is a social and spiritual experience that has a lot of stories to share with the reader.


    “Damanhur Con Te” represents a way to collect them and tell them so that you can take away with you a small piece of the wisdom – or the foolishness, it depends on how you look at it – that has led us in this adventure.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDEVODAMA
    Release dateApr 4, 2018
    ISBN9788894327052
    Young People Growing Up: Children’s Education in the Federation of Communities

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      Young People Growing Up - Stambecco Pesco

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      Damanhur’s children, de facto citizens

      Anyone who takes a stroll around Damjl – the first Damanhurian community – during a planned stay or a Sunday afternoon visit, is going to see many signs of toddlers and children: bicycles, balls, toys left about and a small but fully equipped playground.

      (This applies too, to a lesser or greater extent, to all Damanhurian territories.) If in Damjl you keep on walking and pass by the areas where the teenagers live, more than a state of untidiness it will be the decibels of blaring stereos that betray the presence of young people, not to mention their choice of music, a long stretch – shall we say – from the Music of the Plants that adult Damanhurians like to listen to.

      At the present time, around six hundred people live in Damanhur, ten percent of whom are the offspring of Damanhurian citizens.

      These range from the new-born to those who are well into adulthood, who live in the Federation of Communities, although not necessarily through deliberate personal choice of life path.

      Damanhur’s philosophy is one of life and living, not simply study or philosophical inquiry, in which every aspect of existence is included; thus, the presence of children and young people is an integral part of the lives of all its citizens, both the immediate parents and those who become parents through the experience of others.

      Many of the children were actually born in Damanhur: in fact, many Damanhurian women chose to become mothers by giving birth at home, where this was possible – in the early years thanks to the help from midwives from nearby towns, and subsequently with the aid of Damanhurian obstetricians, as new professionals joined the community. Other children were born in the local hospitals, when the prognosis made this advisable; still others arrived here, more or less grown up, along with their parents.

      The children are welcomed in the community as de facto citizens: they form a vital part of it, involved as they are in the extended communitarian family, in the relationship with the territory and the environment, in the running of the nucleos and in all aspects of everyday life. They do not form part of the body of intentional citizens – those who have chosen to live their lives within the project – nor they take part in the spiritual choices of their parents but they have the opportunity to participate in all the major celebrations such as the Solstices and Equinoxes, and thus feel included in the world they live in.

      Once they reach adulthood, they decide what to do with their lives, depending on what kind of personal dreams they want to fulfill: become self-sufficient, form a family of their own, complete their studies, etc. Consequently, some may decide to leave Damanhur, others may decide to become citizens. In both cases they leave their parents’ home. The objective of Damanhurian education is in fact to develop self-sufficient individuals, connected to a comprehensive reading of life and its meaning, able to make their own independent choices assuming responsibility for their own lives. When a son or daughter of Damanhurians decides to become a Damanhurian in their turn, this is cause for rejoicing for the whole community – however, if instead they choose to follow a different path this is to be celebrated too... since it means that the educational foundations laid have allowed the young person to become independent and able to guide his

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