Wonderlearning requires that we hold space for the children in our care, while they explore a natural, and naturally wonder-filled environment; and that we get out of the way of their learning impulses and allow their paths to rise to meet their feet, as they step into their learning passions, their interests, and their soul’s desires.
Yet with humans being human; with baggage being baggage; and with the majority of us adults being somehow scarred by life, oppression, trauma, systemic pigeon-holing, unhealthy attachments, prejudice, deep-seated cultural fears, neurosis, anxieties, depressions, denials, resistances, blocks – as well as being in possession of our highest visions, hopes, dreams of possibilities, our wonder, our gratitude, our intention to do the very best by our children and our communities, our deep and true loving natures, our honesty, our delight at simple pleasures, our nurturing care, our commitment to those we love, our devotion to Mother Earth, our belief in the goodness of people – the simple practice of Wonderlearning can be anything but easy.
And with this, truly engaging with Wonderlearning is a path to freedom. Freedom for the child. Freedom for the care-giver. Freedom for the family. Freedom for the community. And outward therefrom.
Wonderlearning is a deep, energetic delving into trust. Trust underpins the human dance with the divine. When we trust, we are free. When we are free, we invite freedom in others. Being free is about the most important and the hardest thing for a human to attain, and about the only thing to aspire to.
Are we free? This is, in many ways, all that matters.
And we ask ourselves, are the practices and behaviors, the reflexes, the impulses, thoughts, dialogues, labels, relationships that I am engaging with, are they supporting my freedom, or are they not?
Are these same things supporting the freedom of others? If one’s practices, behaviors and beliefs support OUR freedom, then they will likely benefit others in the same way, whether the people around us are ready to engage with it or not. Whether they embrace us, or whether they stone us with doubts and criticisms. When we see a free person, when we are in the presence of a free person, do we wish to bathe in that freedom and rejoice in its beauty, allowing it to lead us skyward? Or do we attempt to bury, along with the person who has sprouted them, the wings that appear to taunt us while we furnish our cages with the fragile constructs of our egoic pride?
To what do we cling?
How present is our love?
How active is our respect?
How true is our effort to align with the highest energetic expression of ourselves?
How much do we want to live?