Spirit Journey: SERENITY
Serenity – “mid-15c., “clear, calm,” from Latin serenus “peaceful, calm, clear, unclouded” (of weather), figuratively “cheerful, glad, tranquil.” How can we find serenity when…
There is a lot going on in teaching these days.
There is a lot going on in the world.
There is a lot going on inside of each of us.
Teachers, students, parents, administrators, the world…
EVERY ONE needs more calm and peace and serenity.
There is too much expected in too little time and too few resources or too little support or just TOO…TOO much, TOO little TO DO or TO BE. The perspective has changed from a place of abundance to a place of lack and Taking On Obstacles (TOO) that are constantly being placed before us.
Everything is a challenge to be overcome. There is struggle in everything we do. There is no natural flow of curiosity, gradual growth and exploratory learning. Where has all the joy gone? Why is passion now a curse in teaching?
The forecast in education is always stormy weather, stormy seas, dark clouds, high winds, lightening strikes and doom. Teachers feel like they are either in the middle of a tornado and have to escape to the shelter underground and hide or that they are being swept away and drowned by a tsunami-sized flooding of paperwork, meetings, to-do lists, checklists, deadlines, emails and expectations.
How can we as human beings, let alone super-human teacher beings, survive the stormy seas of education?