GREEN CIRCLE is a Network Place dedicated to changing the internal and external lives of children to one of empathy. Recognizing that human reason, wisdom, spirit, and body are one, we are dedicated to understanding, appreciating, nurturing, and teaching for the diverse wisdom, spirituality, and compassion of all children. We are dedicated to changing the family, community, national, and international dinner and table conversation and priorities surrounding the internal and external needs and lives of children. We are a network of very concerned people who are dedicated to supporting the spiritual and wisdom lives of children living in a diverse world. Our collective work will make our world a safer and more compassionate one to live in for all children. We are families, parents, grandparents, teachers, librarians, mental health professionals, religious leaders, researchers, and others who share the human values of believing, belonging, contributing, and transcending. We promise to:
• Partner and collaborate with all secular centers, institutes, and faith systems that work in, or are ready to explore and research the Transformational Education needed for children and adults.
• Provide the necessary secular and inter-religious training resources, compassionate tools and practices, community building, educational research and consulting services to change, move and transform the conventional wisdom and understandings of human differences in our traditional institutions, both public, secular, private and religious.
• Create as well as cooperate with on-going national and international spiritual-reason-wisdom programs and processes that enhance sectarian and inter-religious understanding in our families, neighborhoods, communities, schools of learning, and religious and non-religious institutions.
• Connect the human spiritual and wisdom experience with both science and the ancient storytelling that educates caring for the environment.
• Create Inter-generational Trust conversations between, and among religious faith traditions, and with scientific explorers.
• To Create and build on existing bibliographies and libraries of inter-religious, and secular resources for children and adults that will be conducive to supporting the religious, spiritual, scientific and wisdom lives of children.
•Green Circle- An Empathy building process for children in Elementary School.
• New Games- An Inter-generational Play Experience that teaches the values of competition and cooperation.
• Capacitar—An active and interactive Trauma healing process developed for children and adults.
• Skill building in Non-violence and Peacemaking Circles for parents and Grandparents
