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Youth Encouragement
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff." (J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye) As the waves attac the shore I send them off forevermore. This energetic and powerful quote from a young artist shows very deeply that you can lose only with indifference. The attempt at a rebellion against the totally overpowering can germinate in this song, even a wonderful ray of hope. The purpose of my private engagement is to strength the social skills and awareness of children and young people by experience, media and art uptake and the mediation of individual group-learning processes. Reinforcement and complementary to other training areas such as home and school are important elements of my work. To bring meaningful education to the youth is more than an easily consumable leisure service. These art to mediate needs well-prepared sensitive cool adults, because it encourages the personal development of young people to let them participate responsibly in the future for shaping a decent society. Relevant experiences over the years brought the definiteness that in the most associations problems take place because rival members missing often the real objective aims by bullying or incompetence. To prevent this crap, I decided to start something new in the rural calm environment around Berlin to realise my own vision of free living and reconnection with nature. A private enterprise to promote a meaningful art of life to send some colors in the hearts. It grew to more as an medium sized adventure then: |
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Art- and Body Experiences
The prospect of dangerous situations under safe conditions with mental training enriches the spiritual experience, touch the heart and strengthens the entire mind. Theory and practice in vanquishing of tasks, vigilance, movement and imagination in the creative context is target of a successful course. Overcoming fear, team spirit and confidence are the unique exchange of experiences. The role of ideas by the individual participants is particularly evident here: girls have no disadvantages, boys have not to be physically strong to achieve the objectives. Identify common challenges to overcome and face the problems, rather than evading them. During the last years arises its own philosophy: leisure fun and learn for friendship in life. Not only just during the holidays many families stay here to have the practice. Children and young people learn sensitivity and mental alertness. To enforce Free-Climbing you didn't need mainly physical strength but obviously even more balance and confidence. Together with art and music we have a special opportunity to continue to discover and promote talents. I'm very happy to have kept away a lot adolescents from a dubious future in many cases. The charms in mentally demanding brings much more attention for the most youngsters, than the media dumbing down on television or gaming PC. Unfortunately, we could hardly reach the parents, teens and twens of the rural population. Usually the required minimum attention could not provided from them, so now I put the responsibility in the hands of local social case workers. I wish good luck to all of them and refer anyone interested in my blog cause I retire now from this active work for private reasons. Joaquino, Berlin, Autum 2010 |
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