Nature is the Place of the Soul and Man is the Soul of the Planet
February 11, 2012 – 6:03 pm | No Comment

 
CGIE interns just finished a training on a unit learning about nature and spiritual metaphors in nature. The activities included arts and a walk in the backyard and talk about our walk filled with enthusiasm, …

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CGIE Interns Planned and Hosted an Ayyam-I-Ha Celebration
March 3, 2012 – 11:48 am | No Comment

 
This was a wonderful celebration of Ayyam-i-ha or Intercalary Days (Feb. 26-March 1). My many thanks to CGIE interns for their creativity, planing and organization skills, their love and hospitality, their appreciation of oneness of …

Nature is the Place of the Soul and Man is the Soul of the Planet
February 11, 2012 – 6:03 pm | No Comment
Nature is the Place of the Soul and Man is the Soul of the Planet

 
CGIE interns just finished a training on a unit learning about nature and spiritual metaphors in nature. The activities included arts and a walk in the backyard and talk about our walk filled with enthusiasm, …

Marriage is Like a Garden for Raising Children, It Must be Well Tended
January 10, 2012 – 12:50 am | No Comment

 
Children are like tender herbs, in the garden of divine love. Children are like roses they need to be looked after and pruned properly to add to the beauty and fragrance of human civilization.  Children …

CGIE Offers Junior Youth Empowerment Training Program.
December 17, 2011 – 1:28 am | No Comment
CGIE Offers Junior Youth Empowerment Training Program.

 

CGIE is happy to adopt and offer The Junior Youth  Training program designed by Ruhi Institute. The program is already a global and grass roots social and economic development project aiming to help young people …

Is There a Role for Religion in Global Integrated Education?
August 18, 2011 – 4:09 pm | No Comment
Is There a Role for Religion in Global Integrated Education?

 
The answer to this seemingly obvious questions is it all depends!!
Somehow a story from my primary years of school keeps popping up in my mind whenever I am asked about a question such as the …

Integrated Education, Spiritual Attraction and Cultivating Healthy Minds
July 15, 2011 – 10:33 am | No Comment
Integrated Education, Spiritual Attraction and Cultivating Healthy Minds

I just returned from a week of presenting at Green Acre Baha’i School to a most enthused group of parents on the subject of Spiritual Parenting; A rearch based approach and application. The course examined …

Emotional Intelligence as Gateway to spiritual intelligence
June 23, 2011 – 3:35 pm | One Comment

 
 
Integrated education appreciates the crucial role of emotional intelligence and celebrates parents and educators who pay attention to different patterns of mind, heart and brain. Real education is a means to raising children who are …

Parenting Ten Best Practices! Do We Really Know it?
May 12, 2011 – 12:35 am | One Comment
Parenting Ten Best Practices! Do We Really Know it?

Recently I was asked to offer several workshops about spiritual parenting based on research and Baha’i perspective. At the end of June, I will present a whole week of workshop to parents and community activist …

Hardwired to Connect: The Scientific Case for Character Education
March 23, 2011 – 7:01 pm | 5 Comments
Hardwired to Connect: The Scientific Case for Character Education

A recent investigation into hundreds of studies from as early as the 1950s has linked psychological problems, such as anxiety and depression, to a lack of feeling connected to others. This link between a feeling …

Ten Ways We Really Feel Connected and Become It!
March 2, 2011 – 2:06 pm | No Comment
Ten Ways We Really Feel Connected and Become It!

Last Wednesday February 23, 2011 I asked Natalie Guerrero a senior at Pomona College and a member of the five campus Baha’i club and Stephanie Yuan, a freshman at Scripps College and an intern for …

What’s Love Got to Do With It? Everything
February 14, 2011 – 9:49 pm | No Comment
What’s Love Got to Do With It? Everything

Integrated education is not just talk. It must be translated into sustainable grass roots loving actions in all parts of the world and towards all peoples of the world.
Feb 14, is celebrated as Valentin’s day …

CGIE Interns & Baha’i Club of Claremont Colleges Join in Colaboration
February 1, 2011 – 11:22 pm | No Comment
CGIE Interns & Baha’i Club of Claremont Colleges Join in Colaboration

CGIE interns are looking forward to a joint dinner and collaboration to help the junior youth learn the art of consultation and organization of a Baha’i holiday.
The flyer for the even is here for all.

The Power of Meditation and Reflection While Asking a Question
October 14, 2010 – 12:05 am | No Comment
The Power of Meditation and Reflection While Asking a Question

Any system of education if deprived of the benefits of the spiritual powers of reflection, meditation, prayer and asking questions becomes quite anemic and undermines the unparalleled contribution of the other wing of learning and …

Happy Naw-Ruz to All on Earth
March 19, 2010 – 3:37 pm | No Comment

Naw-Ruz means a new day and is not only celebrated by the Persians also by all the Bahaís from all cultureal and ethnic backgrounds, it is also celebrated by our planet earth as the time …

Integrated Education and the Need for a Universal Auxilliary Language!
March 9, 2010 – 2:23 pm | 2 Comments
Integrated Education and the Need for a Universal Auxilliary Language!

Recently there was a tragic accident of a bus crashing in Phoenix Arizona the headline read: Paramedics hail 4th-grader’s heroism in deadly bus crash.    BY Meredith Kolodner DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, March 8th 2010, …

Celebrating Women’s Rights Day with a Note to My Daughter
March 8, 2010 – 5:13 pm | One Comment
Celebrating Women’s Rights Day with a Note to My Daughter

Dearest Nava
How fortunate you are to be able to  offer the fruit of your God given gifts and  labor to those who are less fortunate and share the bounties of healing, good will, oneness  and …

Explanation of CGIE Being a Bahaí Inspired Organization.
March 6, 2010 – 10:04 am | One Comment
Explanation of CGIE Being a Bahaí Inspired Organization.

Many of our friends and supporters ask about the meaning of CGIE being a Bahaí inspired organization and how this inspiration guides and leads CGIE in its vision and action. I found the following points …

Release of Human Potential and the Law of Oneness of Humanity
February 16, 2010 – 6:40 pm | 6 Comments
Release of Human Potential and the Law of Oneness of Humanity

I have had the fortune of teaching a masters course on Understanding Motivation and Emotions to the underprivileged Baha’i students In Iran who have been barred from attending university because of their beliefs for thirty …

Chinese Principals visit Integrated Education Sites in Southern California
February 4, 2010 – 5:31 pm | No Comment
Chinese Principals visit Integrated Education Sites in Southern California

The concept of educational reform has been very much at the center of Chinese education in recent years. China has had a long history of moral education and has a great appreciation for the challenges …