Reggio Emilia and Open Space with Children

[luca audrey niko daniel]

Hi Kim,
I'm reading the replies to your first question with interest as this is 
all new to me but your second question I can offer something to. Perhaps 
you are expressing the dawning realization that OST and home need not be 
separate and that when considering your children, the default option for 
their learning goes on outside the home.  There is plenty of thinking 
and writing on this topic, it runs very deep in modern western culture.
However, for a mother, there is the question of alignment, continuity 
and sustainable integrated value.  Our family are home educators, 
unschoolers and spaceniks.  This works, as it always does, and worth 
every single moment.  Plenty of topics, endless opportunity and with 
that it  just grows. Open space within the family.
Best wishes
Daniel LeBel
Westport NZ


Kim Willing wrote:

> Hello everyone! 
>
> Well this is syncronicity.  Whilst attempting to overcome a bad cold 
> and take a desperately needed break from my 2 children (1 is 20 months 
> and the other just over 3 years old) I was lying (hiding) in bed 
> reading Harrison's book on peace and wondering how it is I could 
> possibly adopt an Open Space mentality in the care of my kids!  
> Preface this with the fact that I am operating in my own facilitation 
> business (mostly Open Space), aiming to work an average of 2 days a 
> month and spending the rest of the time being mum.
>
> I am currently in the process of preparing myself to conduct another 2 
> Open Space gatherings later in the month.  In this role I have found 
> my experience of Open Space and of myself to be calm, bold, completely 
> unflappable and grounded........ but then I come home to my mum role 
> and it seems the opposite is true!  I am very challenged here!  Thank 
> goodness the people sitting in the circle, can't see what was going on 
> before I left home!  (Something like changing roles from cruel 
> autocrat to Buddhist monk - I'm sure it's not quite this bad all the 
> time but it is winter and I am feeling a little run down!).  Somehow I 
> seem to be running out of space at home.  In the grand plan to have a 
> regular break from kiddlies, my 2 attend a creche in Hobart every 
> Thursday.  I knew that they used a Reggio Emilia approach there but 
> didn't have a clue what it meant - only that I like (and the kids 
> like) they're experience there.  So, I am excited and relieved to 
> discover it has links with Open Space and would like to:
>
> a) find out more about it - can anyone refer me to anything here (if 
> and when I get time to read it) and
> b) post this question from a mum who feels like her experience of Open 
> Space is far from home - How do we do it? (ie: with toddlers, 24hrs a 
> day, at home?)
>
> Love from Hobart town.
>
> Kim.
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