Principle 4: Recognizing the Nobility of Beauty and Graceful Movements

Examples:
It is the friendly ethos, the care, the response, the sympathy of people who can help one another out of teamwork and sharing that truly matters.
                                                            Fuad, Community Leader

It was a different world, a land where children from all over play together, laugh together, run together, paint and dance together without needing to speak the same language. A place where love, support, friendship, kindness, understanding and trust are present in abundance. A place where these human qualities take on another meaning and are the centre point of all.

I had the privilege to be both a youth leader and art teacher, and although it meant my timetable was even more hectic than normal, I would not have changed that for a moment. It gave me the opportunity to spend time with the children as they play sport, train, dance and socialize as well as when they concentrate on their art activities and explore another community. A community that they together, 20 children who speak 8 different languages, create. A community where anything goes but above all there are no wars, no hate, no conflict – a place where people share and love and give with compassion.
                                                             Hillit, youth leader and  art teacher

 

Music Example:
We sing and clap using different dynamics, all through imitation, and not through explaining. The leader can make a sign for quiet or loud, or gradual to crescendo. Show the different modes of singing. Any vowel has a different hue, a different expressive value. The children learn to feel it. We can sing the whole melody with: ma-ma-ma or me-me-me or lu-lu-lu. We can vary the tempo and work with the feeling of quick and the feeling of slow. We can vary the pitch and work with the feeling of high and the feeling of low. We can vary the time and clap with one group at three beats and the other at four.
                                                            Tami, Music teacher

 

Explanation:
Discovering this nobility of beauty and graceful movements calms our souls and allows us to imagine the other as a respectable and worthy person.