Re: something we can do to help

[C C <red.head.1@EXCITE.COM>]

A friend of mine at another school sent this e mail out to her school as a
suggestion for a lesson to use today.  Perhaps it will be of interest to
some in your schools.  Cathy Castelli

From: Schleider Stephanie on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: A suggestion to deal with the tragedy
To: Teachers


Dear Colleagues,

Last year we had an in-service workshop about the choice between good will
and contempt.  Each of us has this choice, and if we focus on how each of us
can make the best choices, we can feel empowered instead of paralyzed by the
events of the day.

Therefore, I recommend that your discussions with your students include
studying the choice between GOOD WILL AND CONTEMPT.  Because what happened
can be related to our lives in a way that supports a determination for
something positive instead of feeling hopeless and fearful.

Definitions:

Good Will:      The desire that good things happen to others and the
                        desire to know what those good things would be

Contempt:               The possibility in every person to think that by making
                        less of the outside world (hatred, prejudice, cruelty,
                        feeling superior to others, using drugs) we build ourselves
                        up.

One  way I have taught these concepts to my students is to use a T chart by
brainstorming  people, events and activities that illustrate GOOD WILL, and
those that illustrate CONTEMPT.

I am so grateful to the founder of Aesthetic Realism, Eli Siegel, for his
clarity about these concepts.  Studying them has changed my life, and I feel
it is imperative that instead of using this tragedy to affirm our negativity
and fear towards the world, that we use it to affirm our own
clear purpose to have 100 % respect/good will and to get rid of our own
contempt.  (More info. on Aesthetic Realism on internet.  It is taught as an
in-service workshop in New York City.)

If you would like any assistance, please let me know.





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