Finding Your Self: Exercises and Suggestions to Support the Inner Life of the Teacher

by Torin M. Finser

Our modern world places many demands on daily work, especially for teachers and parents. This book offers techniques for building concentration, awareness and a centered approach to life and child rearing. Through meditation, using the rhythms of the day, of the week, of the month and of the year, and practice in concentration, you can find practices that enhance the joy and insight in every day life, in teaching and in parenting.The stress brought to bear on ordinary things needs control and consciousness to overcome the tendency to only react and not to act. This little book will give the reader the chance to forge a new way and a new practice towards this important goal.Using modern approaches allows for a little time of quiet producing a great deal of improvement in attentiveness, observation, insight and self control. Here's the book for you!

80 pages, Paperback

First published October 10, 2013

About the author

Torin M Finser received his Ph.D. in educational leadership from Union Graduate School, his M.A. in education from Adelphi University, and his B.A. from Bowdoin College. He taught at the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, where he also served as faculty chairman. Torin has done extensive consulting with schools in organizational dynamics and leadership development and has been a keynote speaker at conferences all over the world.

He is the author eleven books, beginning with School as a Journey, which has now been translated into Mandarin, Farsi, Thai, Arabic, Korean and Spanish. Other books include: School Renewal, Organizational Integrity, A Second Classroom, Parent Teacher Relations in a Waldorf School, Leadership Development and Education for Non-Violence. His Guided Self Study is used by many as an introduction to Anthroposophy.

Torin has served as General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in America and Chair of the Education Department at Antioch University New England. A founder of the Center for Anthroposophy, he has recently pioneered their new Building Bridges Program for practicing teachers in independent and charter schools.

Reviews

[Alison · Rating 3 out of 5]

A new discovery in this book for me: the three-day process of holding an experience so that it can move from mental picture to feeling to concept. I have been trying that out while asking two questions: "what belongs to me?" and "what is mine to do?" I think I will be asking those two questions for a very, very, very long time.

The faithfulness verse is in here. I wept. Words rescue me. Words have literally saved my life. How is that possible?

The rest of the exercises in this booklet were familiar to me. Some I am drawn to, and others don't really speak to me. Still, I am committed to the love that stands behind them all.