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Inside Awareness Legacy Project for balancing transition in early childhood somatic learning to conceptualized intellectualized learning

While continuing to expand the Learning Center’s objectives for continued consulting, teaching, coaching and mentoring Mindful Lifestyle choices through education, a new goal was announced in late 2025 for creating a legacy impact through education for balancing the two learning streams of consciousness.

The first stream of consciousness each human is born with includes patterns that develop abilities to navigate and process the world. The second is the conceptualized intellectualization development by man that separates the body, mind and spirit from the first organic and natural pattern. This legacy work will be under the umbrella of a non-profit that will be created or an existing one that is compatible will be joined.

This non-profit will develop foundational learning materials and technology based upon the existing patterns created during the past 26 years of teaching them in the community. The target audience will be early childhood educational programs that will align with the existing curriculum. There was recognition of a need for a focus in early institutionalized education when children are impressionable in that transition from one learning pattern to the next. This would include those who are entrusted with the children’s care. If you are interested in donating to this project, we would enjoy your support. This support will go to value-based curriculum and integrative somatic learning patterns for balancing both the early learning patterns of intellectualized conceptualized learning, focused on short-term and long-term memories. The patterns include logical, basic training in patterns to process information in healthy and productive actions.

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Legacy Project Donations

While continuing to expand the Learning Center’s objectives for continued consulting, teaching, coaching and mentoring Mindful Lifestyle choices through education, a new goal was announced in late 2025 for creating a legacy impact through education for balancing the two learning streams of consciousness. The first stream of consciousness each human is born with includes patterns that develop abilities to navigate and process the world. The second is the conceptualized intellectualization development by man that separates the body, mind and spirit from the first organic and natural pattern. This legacy work will be under the umbrella of a non-profit that will be created or an existing one that is compatible will be joined. This non-profit will develop foundational learning materials and technology based upon the existing patterns created during the past 26 years of teaching them in the community. The target audience will be early childhood educational programs that will align with the existing curriculum. There was recognition of a need for a focus in early institutionalized education when children are impressionable in that transition from one learning pattern to the next. This would include those who are entrusted with the children’s care. If you are interested in donating to this project, we would enjoy your support. This support will go to value-based curriculum and integrative somatic learning patterns for balancing both the early learning patterns of intellectualized conceptualized learning, focused on short-term and long-term memories. The patterns include logical, basic training in patterns to process information in healthy and productive actions.

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Announcing ‘The Teaching Labyrinth’ @ Brentwood Bay School!

Children's Peace & Nature LabyrinthInside is pleased to announce that ‘The Teaching Labyrinth‘ program will be one of the four workshops at the World Children Summit on Peace and Nature being held May 28th, 2015 at Brentwood Bay Elementary in Saanich.  This is one of Greater Victoria Communities!  Our program, The Teaching Labyrinth, will be one of four at Brentwood Bay Elementary.  The three other workshops will be; Storytelling, Photography and Nature, Music with the Ukulele.

To find out more on how you can host The Teaching Labyrinth workshop at your school please contact us here at Inside.

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Peace Pal Ambassador of Peace Children’s Art – in Greater Victoria #yyj for ’15

Inside is hosting #yyjpeace.com Peace Pal Ambassador of Peace Children’s Art this year!

Our first showing will be at the #4th Annual Creatively United for the Planet Earth Week Festival over the weekend of April 15 & 26th.  Please join us at the festival to view art along Education Alley.  Come to discuss the art with Renee at the Canadian Peace Initiative Booth where we will be supporting long time local Peace Activists, Saul Arbess and Penny Joy.  Saul and Penny have been tirelessly working towards getting  a Department of Peace recognized in Canadian Parliament.

This exhibition is available to your school house or classroom during this year to add to your ‘Peace Education.”  Please connect with us here at Inside to find out more on availability and how to arrange this.

If you would like to know more about Educational Programs for kids; Speaking Peace – being Peace, Creating a Culture of Value, Kids Peace Bus Yearly Calender of values integration program and the Teaching Labyrinth,  please connect with us or visit our Children’s Educational site – www.cultureofvalues.com.

2015 International Peace Art Contest 

Get your kids involved in submitting their art for this year’s, (2015’s) contest.  The deadline is May 30th.  Find out ore at Peace Pals International.

Integration or “embodying” personal change through self realization can be challenging for many!

Written by Renee Lindstrom, Nov 19, 2014 – Note from author:  I believe school warehousing of students was for simplifying group management to maximize numbers and group learning.  This author has noticed the  two other styles of learning mentioned in this article are being blended back into some educational systems.  Consider that the original intention of school was the bright idea of one person who thought it was the best way to go.  

The Western Linear learning style schools have adopted for warehousing students has dropped other learning style choices. Two of these other learning styles are: following natural cycles (turning of the seasons) and learning by listening and exploring the experience of those who have gone before us (elders). By only experiencing a linear style education there is a great need for trust and safety in exploring these other two choices.

In Inside’s movement awareness programs, learning is experienced by listening to talking points for references on where to focus and explore those movement patterns. The safety and trust then transfers from the speaker to the those experiencing the changes in themselves as they follow the patterns they hear.  (cannot be compared to yoga where you are shown and put into a pose, or therapy where you are fixed – something is happening to you)

In communication there is a blend of all three learning styles. Linear (for concepts), practice (experiencing the concepts), experience (storytelling).

In movement, the trust in the facilitator is generally readily available, while in communication there is skepticism and doubt until there is a connection to something personal and meaningful. This can happen much easier through experiencing the natural cycle of dialogue (conversations), yet appears to be the most challenging for many. This article has been written one day after leading  both movement and communication workshops by the author whereby this was observed.

It was observed that it was easier for participants to explore new movements than it is for them to practice new ways of talking. In movement there was acceptance and ease in going for it. In communication for many there was resistance and shyness. Yet, while watching others practice there was awe in the outcome of trying to speak with intention and consciousness.

Participants are challenged in the InTouch communication workshops by reduction of the linear learning style and increase in personal practice to encourage sharing for talking experiences and storytelling!

What this author believes from these two experiences of embodying personal change  have integrated as follows:

The participants have demonstrated a higher level of challenge in speaking responsibly and mindfully than those in mindful movement. This is interpreted that this due to the fact that relationships have had a tremendous impact and has the largest focus of a person’s attention, while movement is new territory for most. It reflects the cycle of learning here in the west. Up until school age, children learn through the turning of the seasons and from elders. Going to school the freedom of movement is limited and has a linear learning style, even in sports!

Message to workshop participants: so different, so courageous, so appreciative!

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Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication,  Empathy,  Values Coach since 2004, Art of Placement  since 2000, Labyrinths of Victoria since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Grassroots Calendar Founder, Vice-Chair of World Children’s Summit on Peace & Nature in 2015

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InTouch Talk in your community

14InTouch Talk programs are designed to speak abundance, integrate universal values and develop emphatic listening.

InTouch Talk has been shared in the following ways:

1.  Introductory and Integration Follow up in the workplace:

  • With counselors in talking circle setting
  • With employees to create harmony and respect for business owner
  • In business offices to align mission statements with ethical behavior
  • Early childhood educators for teaching

2.  Ongoing workshops in the community since 2007

3.  Ongoing workshops in Public Schools since 2007

4.  In talking circles since 2004

5.  Coaching since 2004

Intouch Talk has helped to improve relationships in the areas of:
  • Pre Marriage Coaching
  • Building Better Marriages
  • Deconstructing Marriages
  • Partnerships
  • Business Relationships
  • Conflict Resolution & Mediation
  • Parenting
  • Teaching
  • Educational Institutions
  • Organizations
  • Bullying/Anti bullying
  • Government
  • Policy Making
  • and more……

Connect to inquire or book your Introductory Workshop, In-House Integration Series or Coaching

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Announcing sister site focused upon creating a Culture of Values

Launching:

Culture of Value & Kids Peace Bus Value Based Calendar Education Systems this September!

peace bus for a greener planet

Kids Peace bus Calendar of Values is a structure of learning patterns that breaks through complex critical thinking due to its simplicity of experiencing.  These patterns model ethical and humane behavior that layered with learning empathetic listening  and speaking, children can learn to communicate using a language that values others and is inclusive.  The Kids Peace Bus Calendar of Values is the foundation that can make later development of complex social learning systems easier and less time-consuming.

The Kids Peace Bus Calendar of Values program is a value-based educational component that is also a structure of implementation that is easy.  It is a program that makes learning fun,  and can grow into an organic system for creating *green behavior!   

Integration programs include:  

  • yearly calendar of values to follow for easy integration,
  • setting goals for creating a community and social culture for learning support
  • Teacher’s agendas and personal workbooks for simple integration and value definition development
  • vocabulary building
  • discussion topics for listening and dialogue skill building (designed for organic honesty & empathy)
  • community building ideas  

 

Clear communication seems as elusive as the pot of gold

Speaking/listening, or a lack of it, has caused many of us a considerable amount of trouble. Clear communication seems as elusive as the pot of gold, perhaps because we were not educated in the topic as a child. As the new ‘children of light’, begin to find themselves in positions of power, it could actually be put on the top of the school curriculum, but for now…we’re on our own ……………read more 

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Personal Mentor/Coach, Educational Programs:  Business, School,  Organization
by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000
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