The KidSpirit group guides are intended for youth leaders and teachers who are interested in integrating KidSpirit into their curriculum and are looking for a place to start the conversation. If you prefer to encounter the material without any preconceptions, skip directly to each issue’s table of contents. Following are free downloadable pdfs for each of KidSpirit’s online and print issues with topics and questions to help you frame a discussion.
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Are competition and achievement related? What does it mean to be a “healthy” competitor? These are some of the difficult questions that writers tackle in feature articles about standardized testing, cheating, and whether or not competition brings out the best in us. This issue includes a special article by Amira Mortenson, daughter of Greg Mortenson, who talks about work with her father in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the subject of his bestselling book Three Cups of Tea. In PerSpectives, Peter Benson, President and CEO of Search Institute, reflects on finding and developing your inner spark in his article, “Thriving Starts on the Inside.”
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Perhaps the experience most central to life–change, and its attendant loss–is made palpable for us all in this probing issue. Feature articles explore divorce, moving, cultural traditions surrounding mourning, and the death of a grandparent. The issue includes an excerpt from Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now with an introduction by a KidSpirit Editor. PerSpectives author Julie Ross, Executive Director of Parenting Horizons, asks how much we should cling to loss, and to what extent change helps us grow.
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This exciting issue examines the dance of science and spirit: how it has evolved and how it continues to do so. Feature writers ask if science can explain religion, what science can tell us about the effects of meditation, whether there is a limit to what we should know, the pros and cons of genetic modification, and mysticism. The PerSpectives article by Gary Zukav, author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters and the Seat of the Soul addresses how science can help us understand our inner growth.
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In this issue we look at the power of myth in human history and in our lives today. One feature explores the history of archetypes, another delves into Aboriginal myths. Four writers tell us about their favorite mythical figure: Merlin, Odysseus, Loki and Quetzalcoatl. The PerSpectives article by Jonathan Young, PhD, founder of the Center for Story and Symbol and the Joseph Campbell Archives, discusses the role of mythic stories in self discovery and mentoring.
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Our first quarterly issue examines the apparent conflict between our materialistic culture and our deepest values. Featuring a Kids’ Guide to Advertising, a teen diary about boredom, and articles about food miles and happiness. Lama Surya Das, called the American Lama by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and founder of the Dzogchen Meditation Centers, writes our PerSpectives piece, and tells a Tibetan Teaching story about “The Search for Happiness.”
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Our premiere issue explores our connection to the earth from many points of view. Features include articles on climate change, science, Tai Chi, and an interview with a professor of food studies. In his PerSpectives article, Clifford Duncan, leader of the Northern Ute Indian tribe, shares a Ute Creation myth. A special feature by Matthew Fox, theologian and Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award winner addresses the “Interfaith Roots of Spirit.”
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