Lesson 2 - The Trek - A Guided Visualization

 

Guided visualization is something I do often with my class, and since there will be some returning students I expect them to handle the “close your eyes” part easily. It is too intimate an activity for the whole class. I will spread an Indian print cloth on the floor, put on folk music of the region, light a butter lamp, if I can get one, or a candle, and possibly burn a little incense. I will point out the Indian sub-continent on a map, before we begin, and keep an ammonite for the end. The children will be sitting in a rough circle on or against the benches in our Meeting Area

 

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When the visualization ends, I will probably ask how they felt about the experience and if there are “pictures” which stay in their minds. Then let them share as much as time allows. There won’t be time for much more follow up just then, but I might ask them later to draw something they saw or write about the whole experience.

Then I will show the ammonite. It is a gift of the mountain, but what is it? A seashell at the top of the world? How did it get there? Someone might know. I might give some hints or a short answer, but eventually that ammonite will lead us into a study of the science of plate tectonics and mountain formation.