"I used this quote [above] with teachers in staff meetings for years," writes Nancy Rosenow, in the book, Heart-Centered Teaching Inspired by Nature, "and it always elicited discussion about how hard it is to allow ourselves to fully ‘own’ our own power. To use a nature metaphor, it’s challenging to really let ourselves ‘bloom’…
Once, during a workshop for teachers, I asked people to describe qualities they appreciated about themselves and was met with awkward silence. One woman finally said: ‘I don’t think I have any qualities I appreciate.’ I found it sad and a bit frightening that someone whose work it is to help children develop into their full potential hadn’t allowed herself to celebrate her own…
A second part of the Marianne Williamson quote above continues like this: ‘As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.’ I have seen great examples of this happening throughout the years as I watched teachers and administrative staff taking risks to ‘bloom’ into who they really are."
For an opportunity to support yourself more fully in a heart-centered approach to your work and life, join Tina Reeble and Heather Fox for an Early Childhood Investigations webinar on May 2: https://www.earlychildhoodwebinars.com/presentations/heart-centered-leadership-people-centered-approach-inspired-nature-rich-work-environments-tina-reeble/
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