Öm Kids!
We are proud to announce a new kids program. We will be focusing on peaceful Buddhist principles to help our children develop compassion, respect, appreciation and mindful awareness.
The classes will have an underlying Buddhist theme, yet open to all backgrounds, and taught on a very light, fun and interactive level. The classes will be intended for children ages 4-11 with parent participation.
Families will be offered support in deveolping these attributes and to help bring these lessons into the home.
This year's intention for the 2008 ÖM Kids classes is to teach children ultimately how to embrace people they experience conflict with. We are going to do this through a progression of teachings working our way towards that end goal. The curriculum will start with working with challenging emotions such as anger and frustration, move into developing more positive states such as peace and loving-kindness, the we will do a series of classes focused on extending loving kindness towards others (this will include a service project), and then finally finish up with conflict resolution and extending compassion and loving kindness towards those we struggle with.
The age groups will be divided up and parents will also have their own group to work on learning how to bring the teachings into the home. There will be teaching, arts and crafts, fun experiments and experientials, and meditation instruction.
Pre-registration is required to enable us to prepare accordingly.
A suggested donation of $10 a family would be appreciated.
These exciting new classes will be held in the Buffalo Room at the
County Commons building in Frisco, except as noted
on the following dates for 2008 and their themes. All classes will be held from 10am-11:30am:
- Feb 17 - Working with Anger
- Mar 16 - emotions and the body
- Apr 20 - impermanent nature of emotions
- May - No class, Parent meeting TBD
- June - No class
- July 13 - Special retreat with Gen-la Chokyi Dhakpa
- Aug - No class
- Sep - TBD
- Oct - TBD
- Nov - TBD
- Dec - TBD
See the pictures from some previous Öm Kids! classes in 2007:
For more information or to register, please contact Lisa Dion
lisadion@comcast.net.
We encourage everyone who is interested to learn more about this wonderful venture!
