The next great evolutionary leap in learning and human development

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	• The Call to Brilliance: A True Story to Inspire Parents and Educators Resa Steindel Brown Fredric Press, 2007 - 311 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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Inspiring

As a mother who has had her son in the public school system for 4 yrs. and now has been homeschooling him for the past 2 yrs., I can completely relate to what Mrs. Brown talks about when it comes to teaching through compassion. I truly believe, as Mrs. Brown does, that each person is born a genius, and letting them follow their natural God given talent. Unfortunately, the public school system does not allow this to happen. They have a one-size-fits-all mentality, and the bottom line is money. Therefore squashing so many young, eager, creative spirits. We as a nation should put an end to so-called "accountability" testing and put all of our efforts toward allowing each child to follow his/her dreams, naturally in a compassionate and fully supportive environment. There is no such thing as a failure in this world, only a system that is failing our most valuable asset, our children. Thank you Mrs. Brown for such an inspirational book. I have enjoyed reading about your 15 yr. journey with your 3 kids, as well as reading about your own personal experiences in the public school system when you were growing up.Every parent and educator will be able to relate to this book. I look forward to your next one.

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A Must Read for Anyone Who Believes All Children Can Be Brilliant

The Call to Brilliance is an inspiring true story of a woman who, at a young age, noticed problems in our education system and later used her experience to fuel her own education revolution. Author and award-winning educator Resa Steindel Brown was raised, like many of us, in a system that stifles passion and learning. When it came time to raise her own children, she insisted on finding a way to give them more. She strived to create an enriching environment for her own children, as well as others, that encouraged their innate eagerness to learn, put fire under their passions, and ultimately allowed them to optimize their own brilliance.

This story tells of her struggles in creating such an environment and gives hope that although difficult at times, it is not only possible, but extraordinarily rewarding for all. The success of her own children is a great testament to the benefits of finding and kindling a child's passion into brilliance. This book is a must-read not only for parents and educators, but for anyone who believes that all children can be brilliant.

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The next great evolutionary leap in learning and human development

In Resa Brown's new book, The Call to Brilliance, Resa articulates with outstanding clarity, the next great evolutionary leap in learning and human development, which requires that the content of the educational curriculum must spring anew in each moment from the purpose and passion within the heart and spirit of both child and teacher. This book provides profound insights on the future of learning and human development and on personal transformation.

This process of helping children, through the focused spiritual discernment of teachers, children, and parents, to discover and follow their unique passion for learning is totally congruent with what Joe Pearce identified in 1977 in his breakthrough book Magical Child Magical Child (Plume). Pearce said:

"The child is designed to structure knowledge only to develop the tools of intelligence and logic, the ability to interact. What he interacts with is never so important as the knowledge of, or ability for, interaction he gains from that encounter. The biological plan is a drive for knowledge as ability, not knowledge as information. Information is of value only as it enhances the ability to interact. Once this ability develops, the information through which the development took place is incidental, and no longer of value." Pearce adds:

"In a universe in which everything must move and flow in order to exist, only the ability to interact with that flow is of value. This is what the child intuitively knows and strives to maintain." (Magical Child, pp. 112-113)

Tobin Hart, Director of ChildSpirit Institute has added the following insight: The Secret Spiritual World of Children: The Breakthrough Discovery that Profoundly Alters Our Conventional View of Children's Mystical Experiences As Hart describes:

"Our interests, passions, and the direction of our play may reveal a sense of our character and calling. Psychologist James Hillman takes up this question in his exploration of the lives of many famous individuals....Their genius pushed itself into embodiment as they found themselves driven to perform, or to help others, or whatever the deep impulse was." (The Secret Spiritual World of Children, p. 165)

It is this deep impulse leading to genius that author Resa Brown has observed in all of her children, once they are able to return to their experience of "a universe in which everything must move and flow in order to exist", and where "only the ability to interact with that flow is of value".

Our passion to learn is the response of the child or adult to the desire of the soul and spirit for fulfillment of life at its highest. This passion for learning guides us to the specific learning and development that is needed in each moment to further our innate intent to unfold that which we are in the process of becoming.

What is this magnificent passionate process for unfolding our innate capacities and building a deep and personal understanding of our world as it truly is? It is play, and the desire for play arises in the soul's intent to allow us to become that which we are intended to be.

As we play in this passionate way, our mastery of what we are learning and our awareness of our success allows us to increase our awareness of our personal power to be and become in the world. As children follow their passion, they come to trust that these innate responses to life will guide them safely forward through all of the stages of their development."

Most prescriptions for improving the world focus on getting others to be different - to start doing what they are not doing and stop doing what they are doing. These fail because there is no internal motivation provided to these "others", and so the "others" spend most of their time resisting - within their own mind and spirit -- the attempt to make them different from who they truly are.

This, unfortunately, is true of most schools and educational systems around the planet.

Alternatively, as Resa Brown has discovered, when we follow our passion, we follow our inner call to the purpose for which we were born. Our passion is related to the special and magnificent uniqueness of each of us.

As we begin to discover this purpose, our passion for achieving it begins to awaken. As our passion awakens, the personal energy, vision, creativity, and determination to achieve grow stronger within us. This is the process described by Resa Brown that can lead our children to the brilliance that is their birthright.

We must never make the mistake of assuming that The Call to Brilliance provides a prescription for what "others" must do. This process can never be advanced through government programs or in the usual institutional setting of our schools or other social, political, or economic institutions. It is not a political solution but an intensely personal one.

The Call to Brilliance process leads to rapid and profound learning and development - far beyond what is normally believed to be possible - for the child and also for their teachers and parents.

Read and understand.

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Thinking outside the box! It is about time!

A wonderful memoir of a family that challenged the herd mentality and won! Bravo! I have two young children and my endeavor is to assist them to fulfill their calling as the author achieved with her children. Kudos to her for having the courage and insight to and raise her children according to her instincts and intuition. It is always said that noone knows a child better than their own parents. This book is proof of that statement. As the author writes, "We cannot continue the destrutive testing, the prodding, the behavioral wars to fit human-shaped children into mechanized slots. Haven't we had enough? It is time. Now is the time to build environments that facilitate the best of our humanity."

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In an engaging memoir, award-winning educator, Resa Steindel Brown is drawn to the astonishing discovery that all children are born brilliant. With insightful commentary, she recalls her own trials as a student and teacher in our industrial, one-size-fits-all educational system. Then she encounters the needs of her young son. Finding a fit is like trying to stuff an odd-shaped child into a square hole. The love for her child propels her on a journey that sweeps her own children, and the children around her, into a learning environment driven by joy, exuberance and passion instead of heartbreak and defeat.

Unable to read until ages nine and ten, they entered college at eleven and twelve, became systems administrators, chief technology officers, trained with the Berlin Opera and Hamburg Ballet, created digital images used in the film "Lord of the Rings," presented software solutions to TRW, Pac Bell, Industrial Light & Magic, NSA, Sony, and more, all before the ages of eighteen.

The Call to Brilliance shows parents and educators how to redirect children's challenges into strengths, discover children's interests, fuel their interests into passions, and their passions into brilliance.

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