Design

For Change and Inner Dance:

An introduction Wherever this message may find you now, at this moment, today, remember this: We each arrive on the planet, in a space of Oneness, fully enlightened and absolutely perfect. Every child already has within him or herself the entire knowledge of the Universe, which is seen, when we choose to SEE it. Which is remembered when it is seen. I have been writing this letter to you for a long, long time. Every time we stand before a child, forgetting our own inner light, we are teaching them to forget their own. Each time we look into the eyes of a child and see their Infinite Knowledge and Limitless Love they remember it within themselves. A video and prezi to journey through, in remembrance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGzzBJ-X-qQ&feature=plcp http://prezi.com/x6vw7yichtja/is-design-for-change-for-you/ Since early 2010, I have been the Philippines representative of Design for Change (DFC) which is a global education re-form movement that is infecting the world with the I CAN bug. DFC is simply about reminding children and schools of their true purpose and is a truly magnificent platform in which our childrens magic is seen, heard and mostly felt. Some of the stories from across the world have been about community gardening, recycling centres at schools, responding to climate change, cleaning rivers, beaches, stopping smoking and child marriages just to name a few! In other words, children are being enabled and empowered to be the guardians of being that they already are. To find out more about DFC visit: http://dfcworld.com/ This 29th and 30th September, 2012 I will be attending the Be The Change Global Conference, In Ahmedabad, India and will be sharing Inner Dance with children and teachers from around the world. I will also be sharing inspiring stories from the Inner Dance and Maia Consciousness communities that span the globe. Stories inspired inspired by the Inner Dance and DFC processes. The DFC toolkit is a simple 4 step process to support adults in sharing their Beingness with children and giving children the opportunity to share a global platform with child change makers from all over the world. These are the 4 steps of the DFC toolkit which can be found online here: http://dfcworld.com/curriculum.html

1. Feel-What do you care about that you would like to change at your school or in your community? 2. Imagine-Visualise a long-lasting solution 3. Do-Decide on a time and do it (In a small group of 3-5 children who are guided by an adult mentor from our Inner Dance Community. 4. Share-tell the story on a global platform (video, presentation)

DFC, Inner Dance and Maia Consciousness

This is the DFC alignment with Inner Dance, Maia Consciousness and Inner Word process, curriculum frameworks shared in our community. Consciousness 1. Feel-What do you Crown Chakra-Inquiry care about that you would like to change at Love your school or in your Heart-Affirmation community? FLOW Birthing 2. Imagine-Visualise a Sacral-Manifestation long lasting solution. Insight 3. Do-Decide on a time Third Eye-Observation and do it (In a small group of 3-5 children who are guided by an adult mentor from our Evolution Inner Dance Solar Plexus-Intention Community. FORM Sustainability 4. Share-tell the story on Root-Embodiment a global platform (video, presentation) Communion Throat-Declaration

Would you like to be a part of this global education re-form movement?

1. 2. 3. 4. Do you have young children between the ages of 6-13? Do you have nieces, nephews or grandchildren? Are you a school teacher or do you have access to a school? Do you love children and wish to be of service?

If yes to any of the above, you can facilitate a DFC process in which our Inner Children everywhere are seen, heard and allowed to be simply magnificent. You can easily do this by mentoring a group of children who are keen to participate. These could be children who have either done Inner Dance before or children whom you can introduce ID to.

FLOW

For teachers, the process can be easily introduced to the learners in your class/es or even at a grade- level assembly. The real-life context of DFC empowers learners to be changemakers in their community and provides ample opportunities to assess the application of the curriculum through student led initiatives. For those with children or grandchildren, all you need to do is gather 4-5 children, invite them into the Inner Dance during which you guide them playing appropriate music and intuitively asking them, when they are ready, to visualise themselves in the the following ways:

Time to introduce the DFC part of the Flow.

standing in front of a mirror and seeing themselves becoming younger and younger until they are within the womb of their mothers before they were born, in space, as a beautiful light being playing and dancing as light, sound and colour looking at the earth, seeing and feeling how beautiful it is travelling back to earth, feeling free, having fun and going to their favourite place on the planet.

1. FEEL: What do you care about that you would like to change at your school or in your community?
During ID process, in which children are in the deeply meditative space, ask them to visualise themselves in the following ways: at home, at school, or anywhere in their community having an experience when they didnt feel so good at home, at school or anywhere in their community changing something in this place that allows them to feel good and makes this place more beautiful.

2. IMAGINE: Visualise a long-lasting solution:

During ID process, ask the children to see themselves creating change in their community by visualising themselves in the following ways: choosing one thing that they would like to change at school or in their community, something that they can do mostly by themselves and that they will be able to do in a week making a list of all the things that they will use to create this design for change, preferably things that they can find easily at school, home or in the local community travelling through time and looking at the place they have created change, one year later to see how the people feel about all the wonderful changes the children made that are still being maintained. looking at a map of what they saw from the time they started the Inner Dance journey to the present moment. You can guide them back into the space and provide paper and pens for them to record all the things they saw and felt. Gather into a circle so that the children can share their dreams with you and each other. FORM

3. DO: Decide on a time and do it.

As a mentor you will assist the children in choosing a suitable time to implement the design for change. Some things to remember: the children are the leaders and you are there in support of their process

4. SHARE: Tell your story on a global platform

the focus isn't on the product or the DOING. Its really all about the process of remembering the inner KNOWING and BEING before DOING. Allow the DOING to flow from the inner space of the childrens dreams, guide the flow of innate consciousness by keeping within your flow choose a week in which to implement the change document everything and take photos and videos of the whole process.

This allows the healing resonance to be shared with the whole world and is a very powerful stage of the process. Here are some guidelines: The most effective way for the story to be shared is to make a video as this medium captures the flow in a very fluid form. If you are able to make a video you can do it yourself. If not, seek some assistance. However you could simply share the story in a word document or power point. Allow the children to contribute to this and whilst holding space as the observer who is seeing the highest potential as this is what the story communicates. When your story is ready to be shared email it to we.are.all.one.ph@gmail.com so that I can upload it onto the Philippines site. http://dfcworld.com/PHILIPPINES If you are in another country you can still send it through to me and I can send it through to the country representative of the country you are currently in. Or you can find the country on the DFC site and contact the team there. There are currently 35 countries participating including Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries in which we already have formed Healing Circles. Those holding space and participating in these healing circles are already experiencing their own design for change through Inner Dance process. It is time to share the healing resonance with more children. CARPE DIEM! DFC is pure magic. All these children shining their light into the darkness we call global issues, which are just symptomatic of the inevitable climate change. Everything I do, is for our children and it is actually sometimes quite difficult for me to not be in classrooms as I miss the every day magic with the kids. Yet I know I am where I am supposed to be. Each adult who remembers their Inner Child through the Inner dance process starts to look at the essence of the children around them. They start to see the light that is pouring out of our amazing guardians of being. They start to surrender their egos and be like we are, in service to our children, by being the change we wish to see, simply by seeing that the change already exists. The world transforms when we see the transformation happening inside our hearts. Every child is born with a seed that is to be planted, cared for and nurtured into growth. That seed is the very reason why the child has been born. We call that seed a birth vision. As DFC is empowering children to be the change, the Inner Dance is allowing adults to become more aware of their inner child and remember their birth vision, their reason for being here. Within us, is the innate knowledge of the whole Universe. Every child holds a seed that, when sprouted, leads the whole world to evolve as it allows their inner Knowledge and wisdom to flow through. DFC is illustrating the power that each child has in transforming the world into a more evolved planet. Each baby is born in a space of Oneness.

Have a look at these previous DFC winning stories to see how a remembrance of Oneness, our inner connectedness to all life on the planet leads children to create long term sustainable solutions which impact on the school environment, whilst in alignment with the school curriculum. Every child not only has a seed, but is a seed of limitless wisdom and infinite love. Design For Change is illustrating the power that each child has in transforming the world into a more evolved planet. http://www.dfc2010.designforchangecontest.com/dfc2010/node.aspx?nid=75&Country=34 Children are our guardians of being. When we listen, we can learn a lot from our children. As long as we nurture their creativity, provide opportunities for their growth and are inspired by them, together, we can be the change. By reminding children of their inherent beautiful and powerful beingness they go through a process of heightened awareness of themselves, their community, the world and then instinctively want to heal it. They see their interconnectedness with all life and then want to spread the word and lead the change. Children being empowered to be and lead the change in designing solutions, transforms our world by reminding adults of their inherent beauty and the power of BEING. The DFC challenge is an opportunity to plant seeds of love that can nurture self, community and the world. In every story of change, children amaze and inspire teachers, parents and their communities by solving problems with passion and determination. Aware. Enabled. Empowered. Documenting the stories, allows our children to re-write the history of humanity. Its time for the joy, beauty and love that children give in abundance, to be released into the world to remind us of our own power to transform and live our lives in harmony with each other and the Earth. Let's listen to our children. We can learn a lot from them.

Gratitude I thank you on behalf of every child, in every class and in every country that I have taught in. I thank you for your resonance as I thank them for all the lessons we learned together. Our choice to recognise the magnificence in children is equally our choice to surrender ourselves to our inevitable evolution. Children are our guardians of being. Let us see in them Who We Really Are and Why We Are Here, on the planet, at this time. Let us remember that whoever, whenever and however we live, We Are All One.

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