Highlights of the InnerScience Circles at the Celebrate Life Festival 2011

Family and Consciousness

This year we had a full program for parents – workshops, experience-spaces and coachings.

Topics were as multifaceted as in real life: contact and relationships as a base for development – what does my child need to have a secure bond – what can help me to be authentic as a mother/father and where are my limitations – how can we accommodate God (our spiritual practice) between changing diapers and exhaustion – what is the mood, the sound in our family – can I see the world through the eyes of my child – using Education advisors vs. listening to your inner voice – using resources and replenishing them, and what nourishes me as a mother/father – couple relationships and parenting – rediscovering intimacy...

The openness of the parents who were dealing with often very difficult topics was very touching and inspiring. The fact that parenting is a responsible and central topic of our time - and a grounded implementation of our alignment towards a more conscious life was emphasized by several of the spiritual teachers. In the workshops, it became obvious as well how many parents were moved by similar challenges. It was not as much about finding solutions as about asking questions together –about exploration and exchange. In this way, a creative, intimate and true togetherness developed. This kind of contact is what we experience as a basis for a happy and healthy development for our children.