SNC is a collective open space for the exploration of truth.
All of the SNC residents (adults and children) willingly take collaborative responsibility for the nurturing care, protection and encouragement of each other’s creative exploratory learning, as well as their overall physical and emotional well being; an intentionally collaborative mutual support upon which we base this inter-related journey so called life.
सह जीवन saha jīvan is a holistic approach to collaborative co-living in order to foster a creative atmosphere where, through multigenerational supportive relationships among various age-groups, together we can explore the truth of reality.
Children are not separated into different grade levels (KG, 1st, 2nd, etc.), nor do we categorize ourselves as students or teachers according to age. Thus we can eliminate the concept of inadequate student-teacher ratios which occur as a one to many mode of communication within a lecture setting, by replacing the pyramid hierarchy model of classroom management of the authority figure at the front of a group of obedient students sitting in orderly rows, with a more interconnected cyclical model, as a many to many mode of communication, fostering a new sense of peer education through cross-generational open dialog, children, youth and adults together, discussing, exploring and discovering (ie. learning) side by side and from one another. An adult can learn just as much from a child as the child might learn from the adult. The learning and teaching happens simultaneously in multiple directions across the circle. Through dialog we travel together on this journey of curiosity, exploration and discovery.
This interconnected cyclical structure is also a model for our organizational structure where each co-living, co-learning resident at Space for Nurturing Creativity takes their own initiative to participate in day-to-day activities, as well as to take on various responsibilities according to their individual expertise or interests to learn. Just as household and organizational management responsibilities are not delegated, is it not a requirement to attend classes, participate in activities or complete assignments, and so by eliminating the pressure of “having to do so” and creating an encouraging and inspiring atmosphere, one becomes naturally inclined to do so.
सहशिक्षण saha śikṣaṇ
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