Intuitive Pedagogy
Lectures, seminars and workshops
Attention and presence by understanding playing
About IP
about playing
Someone said "playing is learning". It's a truth without modifications.Playing must not be "degraded" to just being fun, pastime or pleasure. It is not something that should stop when you get older. Playing sharpens our minds and fosters our attention. We like Sudoku, crosswords and other «intelligence» games to keep our heads running smooth and quick, it's good and fun, but a bit unilateral. We exercise muscles and fitness but often forget to exercise/practice bodily control, presence and alertness. This is what we try to do when we play. Waldorfeducation tells us that the child is our curriculum, then we first have to learn to "read" the child. Intuitive games/playing is a beginning. Through it we get an insight into what it's like to be a learning, playful human. We practice and sharpen our attention. Without that, we can not seriously call us educators.
Johan