“Education points the way to…
the world of the human spirit.”
-Maria Montessori
We provide support and consultation around the following key questions …
What are the special potentials of early childhood and how can we nourish them?
How do I set up a home environment to best facilitate my young child’s development?
What is the spirituality of the child and how can I honor and extend it?
How do I introduce my child more intentionally to the natural environment and cosmos as home?
What are some ways adults can reclaim and reconnect to their own latent child capacities and needs?
The young child says…
“Help me
to help myself!”
About our logo
The child in a circle of gold indicates the child’s inner life - a unique internal configuration of thought and feeling, driven by an urge to become himself. This internal “center” is influenced by the objects and activities in the world around him - represented by the outer ring or “periphery”. Maria Montessori noted that very young children are deeply impacted by these external stimuli, that the child “absorbs” his experiences. Emerging from the womb, the child internalizes the setting in which he finds himself - language, food, customs; as well as, plants, animals, weather and more. All of this settles deeply and becomes the child’s “home”.
The edge of the golden ring represents the place where the inner life and the outer life meet. It is comprised of “points of contact”. The child is a powerful observer. The child uses keen senses and memory to bring the outer world inside, to make it his own. Montessori said the child “incarnates” the world -that it becomes his “flesh”, a foundational part of who he is! Further, as the child becomes ever more capable of acting in the environment, and internal urges (for example, to grasp something in his hand) are met with appropriate materials and thoughtful adult assistance, more dynamic “points of contact” occur so that the inner and outer life form a nurturing and harmonious whole child. The child nurtured in this way becomes an ever more active participant in creating his own life.
Young children are motivated by love first of all. This, in fact, is the child’s greatest gift and power - actually, to fall in love. The child naturally seeks to fall in love with the great world around him, the people he meets, the powerful spirit both within him and beyond. Gratitude, joy and wonder then, comprise the true life of the child.
