Let me start with the question: WHERE DO I COME FROM?
Since childhood, I was constantly ill because of the traumas I experienced. The treatment that was given to me was ineffective. Then I studied pharmacy to find a prescription for my health, and worked scientifically in medicine, doing a PhD in immunology. Years later, I experienced professional burnout. And then I came across psychosynthesis – psychology with the soul. At the end of the 1990s, I was going to a psychosynthesis center in Italy – Poggio del Fuoco. Due to the long bus trip, I took two books with me. One of them was: CHOOSING TO LOVE. THE CHOICE IS YOURS by Eileen Caddy and David Platts. I met David a few years ago at the conference: Psychosynthesis for the Next Millennium in San Diego. And then I met Fiorenza – the architect, who took me to Vale del Sol and said that a center similar to Findhorn would be built there.
WHO AM I?
A year later, I found myself in FF at EXPERIENCE WEEK, where I was offered the role of RP. During this time and years after, I was working to understand why we get sick and what it means for a child to develop sustainably. I also created educational programs for children, parents and teachers, supporting health education. It was my understanding of sustainability, coming from myself – each person. When I joined FF, I realized that my model of education is the beginning of taking care of the environment and creating a new quality of life in the world.
After that, I was at FF many times, also at conferences: For the Love of the Nature, Spirit of Learning. Soul in education, where I met Diana Whitmore – another person involved in psychosynthesis. I was also at the Transformation Game and ECO-VILLAGE TRAINING workshops.
All of this has built an ecological awareness in me and the basis for my educational programs – a model of education for the future – so that I do not need therapy afterwards, as in my case.
WHERE AM I GOING?
This year, 23 years have passed since I was in FF for the first time. During that time, I wrote over 50 books and gave roughly the same number of papers at conferences on the model of education for the future. In several books I devoted a lot of space to inspiration from FF.
When I was at FF, I always visited the Phoenix store to buy 1-2 books important to my model of education for the future. It was usually a difficult choice because I had limited financial resources. One time I reached for the book BUILDERS OF THE DAWN. It was a big book and it cost a lot. So I put it back on the shelf, but the book was drawing me back. I kept explaining to myself that I could buy at least 2 other books instead. Once again I took it in my hand and it opened to the chapter: EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE ”. At that time, I was running the Education for the Future Association ”- and hence it was a sign that the book was up to date for me.
To sum up: I would not be as I am, my achievements, educational programs and books, if not for FF’s stays and its influence on shaping me and what I do. For years I have been a beacon on the road, a builder of the dawn, new brightness and new education for the future. Despite the difficulties and many current civilisation challenges – this future is being created, it exists thanks to the influence of centers such as the Findhorn Foundation. This future lives in us, those people who have soaked up FF and its work. You can’t undo it, it’s alive now – New Era and New Civilisation.
Ewa Danuta Bialek
EWA DANUTA BIALEK – passionate scientist in the field of medicine, pedagogy and ecology, searching for new solutions. Practitionnaire in psychosynthesis since 27 years. Authoress of 54 books .
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