With some regularity, when I am talking about a life-changing insight I have had, it dawns on me: this is similar to what the Guide said to me a few weeks ago. I used to be a bit embarrassed about that, even disappointed. At a certain point I got it how silly that is. It seems to me that IS the process of transformation: Life offers information that we hear either consciously or not, sometime later we have direct experience of what was being pointed at, it springs forth as insight, and we are changed.
Anyone who has been following the work in Kantolomba knows Cheri has been talking for a number of years about English literacy as the foundation of sustainable change. Last year we started a pilot immersion program for a handful of preschoolers. We have had informal conversations about a next step of offering English support to the older students, who are in government schools.
In a phone conversation with Theresa a couple of weeks ago she said to me excitedly, “Jen, we have realized something. We can put together an after school English curriculum for the government school children. It will make a big difference.”
I listened to her with a huge smile on my face. YES! They have made the insight their own—change has happened.
Gasshō,
Jen