Magical Parent-Magical Child, the Optimum Learning Relationship - Softcover

Mendizza, Michael; Pearce, Joseph Chilton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1879118998 ISBN 13: 9781879118997

Publisher: In-Joy Publications, 2003

Synopsis

Magical Parent: Magical Child helps adults rediscover the playful, childlike genius of their own nature as they guide, learn from and mentor children. Discovering and exploring this fresh creative energy transforms the adult, which results in radically different learning environments for children. Changing the adult changes the environment we call childhood, which transforms the child. When children mirror this new creative energy it cycles back and transforms the adult. We call this playful, reciprocal dynamic, the Optimum Learning Relationship.

Our goal is to redefine the adult-child relationship as a transformative practice as demanding and powerful as found in any monastery, martial art or athletic training camp. We optimize the adult-child interface by applying to parenting and to education the proven strategies that allow top athletes and other performance specialists to respond to ever changing and challenging environments with grace, peak performance and true intelligence. The results, we believe, are radically different human beings, and therefore a different culture than we see today. Joseph Chilton Pearce and Michael Mendizza believe that this work is truly revolutionary, unique and exactly right for today's parents, families, coaches and educators.

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About the Author

Michael Mendizza has for two decades been a documentary filmmaker, and is the founder of Touch the Future, a nonprofit learning design center. He builds bridges of understanding between the visionary educational and research community and adults who are mentoring the future of humanity - parents, childcare providers, coaches and teachers. Michael has been inspired by and worked closely with David Bohm, J. Krishnamurti, Ashley Montagu, and his close friend Joseph Chilton Pearce.

Joseph Chilton Pearce is respected internationally for his visionary understanding of child and human development. He is the author of Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Magical Child Matures, Bond of Power, Evolution's End, and most recently The Biology of Transcendence. His lifelong passion has been understanding and describing our 'amazing capacities and self inflicted limitations.' His vision of the Magical Child and of our transcendent nature continues to inspire audiences around the world.

Review

Every parent should read this book ten times over, study it, challenge it, and watch the whole world transform itself. -- Peter Kline, author of Why America's Children Can't Think

Invites us to reconsider basic assumptions about learning, teaching, and being with children. Rare synthesis of visionary thinking and practicality. -- Rahima Baldwin Dancy, author of You Are Your Child's First Teacher

Redefines adult-child relationship as transformative practice as powerful as found in any monastery, martial art or athletic training camp. -- Michael Murphy, author of In the Zone, Golf in the Kingdom, Future of the Body

About this edition

• Publisher: In-Joy Publications
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1879118998
• ISBN 13: 9781879118997
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 220