Friday, September 13, 2002
More Play, More Peace
Here's Peace Through Play - an organization in the UK "for transforming the Culture of Violence into
a Culture of Peace by realising the inborn creative potential on children, young people, yourself." Read "The Link Between Peace and Play":
In young children at play there is at times discernible a quietude and calm as though they possessed a deep, private and distant existence, which is just beyond the observer's understanding. It emanates a sense of peace. A fragment of this property, which might be defined as childish innocence, stays alive in each individual into maturity, but may remain dormant. Wisdom, and the flashes of intuition and inspiration that occur from time to time throughout life, spring from this same quiet place. This quality in young children, ephemeral as it may appear, is a powerful force, and lies deeply embedded in the psyche. It is culture-based and linked with the world of myth, magic and the imagination. Play is its natural expression, and in playing the creative energies are released. These may take the form of singing, dancing, music making, painting, sculpting, building, working in wood or other materials, including water and wind; embroidery, roleplay, story telling, poetry, or in many other ways; some original and inventive, some picked up from others. Play and creating are often indistinguishable from each other.
Then there's Let Us Play that seeks to build "peace and reconciliation through sports" and has been active in Bosnia. And the Canadian Organization Building Peace Through Play, and Playground for Peaces - "a joint project of the Middle East Children's Alliance and the Welfare Association," and "Peace Through Play"
Think there's a message here?
a Culture of Peace by realising the inborn creative potential on children, young people, yourself." Read "The Link Between Peace and Play":
In young children at play there is at times discernible a quietude and calm as though they possessed a deep, private and distant existence, which is just beyond the observer's understanding. It emanates a sense of peace. A fragment of this property, which might be defined as childish innocence, stays alive in each individual into maturity, but may remain dormant. Wisdom, and the flashes of intuition and inspiration that occur from time to time throughout life, spring from this same quiet place. This quality in young children, ephemeral as it may appear, is a powerful force, and lies deeply embedded in the psyche. It is culture-based and linked with the world of myth, magic and the imagination. Play is its natural expression, and in playing the creative energies are released. These may take the form of singing, dancing, music making, painting, sculpting, building, working in wood or other materials, including water and wind; embroidery, roleplay, story telling, poetry, or in many other ways; some original and inventive, some picked up from others. Play and creating are often indistinguishable from each other.
Then there's Let Us Play that seeks to build "peace and reconciliation through sports" and has been active in Bosnia. And the Canadian Organization Building Peace Through Play, and Playground for Peaces - "a joint project of the Middle East Children's Alliance and the Welfare Association," and "Peace Through Play"
Think there's a message here?
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