Awareness High School
A Guide to Self Discovery and Mastery for Students, Teachers, and Parents
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If you are a teenager on a quest you might have found this book on your own; or, maybe, you are a parent who had an “ah-ha” moment and seized this book as a tool to assist you in finding “the missing link” in your child’s education. Perhaps you are a teacher looking for an opportunity to try some different kind of techniques in the classroom. Anyone can use the exercises and techniques outlined in this book independently or as part of a group to unlock inner knowing, intuition and the capacity to connect with what is important to succeed in life. The ideas and lessons presented in Awareness High School provide support that you can use throughout your entire life.
The exercises and techniques suggested in Awareness High School have been adapted from those originally developed for adults. The work of many great teachers in the human potential movement, masters of mind dynamics; health and well being practitioners; and communications specialists have been the inspiration for developing a program designed with young readers in mind. Awareness High School makes these techniques available to you at a point in your life when it is natural and even imperative to better understand your identity, and how you can make a contribution to the world. Each chapter contains a lesson about a different strategy you can use for your best advantage. Many of the techniques can be used to assist you in any course of study you are now pursuing, or in the development of a future vision.
Consider this book as a guide for you on the “road to awareness” with tools, and insights to open doors for self-discovery, personal empowerment, understanding, and fulfillment. Your journey has the following explorations:
- Chapter One: a study of the brain and how you can use it to uncover what is most important for you to consider in your development
- Chapter Two: the meaning of a paradigm shift, and how we can shift our limiting conversations to conversations that give us power
- Chapter Three: the relationship between your mind, body and spirit and the constant dance to balance the three
- Chapter Four: insights and tips on how to keep yourself in top form physically, mentally and emotionally
- Chapter Five: an expansion of your vision of who you are and your interconnectedness with all the elements of the universe
- Chapter Six: a look at the connection between you and the planet that sustains you
- Chapter Seven: how to maintain your sense of self, inner strength, good will and forward momentum in the face of setbacks
- Chapter Eight: accepting the shadow side of the personality to gain wisdom and strength
- Chapter Nine: understanding the gift and power of your own voice
- Chapter Ten: how compassion arises when you can see all parts of yourself from the weak to the strong, from the dark to the light
- Chapter Eleven: seeing the real magic in everything around you. It is with this perception that exploration and discovery occur
- Chapter Twelve: your commencement - aware of yourself and the contributions you want to make to the world, you are ready to set out with confidence on a lifelong journey of awareness.
As with any commencement, graduation from Awareness High School is only a beginning. When you start a journey to become more aware, you open yourself to a life of exploration and learning. It is the most exhilarating path you can take. Awareness of who you are and what is really important to you will be your best guide in remaining on your true path. Here’s to your success and fulfillment on this incredible journey.
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A Guide to
Self Discovery and Mastery
for Students, Teachers and Parents
Finally a book that empowers you to direct your own learning experience and gives you tools for discovering who you want to be. Barbara Abbate’s book, Awareness High School opens doors to unleashing the inner potential of young learners by giving them the tools, techniques and skills to discover ways to explore their own innate powers of mind, body and spirit.
You’ll feel as if Barbara’s got her arm around your shoulder as she offers you more of yourself through her tales. This book is a doorway to evolution… a must read and more importantly: enact.
—Willow Dea, Editor of Igniting Brilliance: Integral Education for the 21st Century,
Executive Director of the Integral Education Center
About the Author
Barbara Abbate has over thirty years of experience in classrooms around the country. She was a teacher, playwright, and director for the American Conservatory Theatre’s Young Conservatory in San Francisco. She was instrumental in the creation of Beach Channel High School, the magnet school of oceanography, the director of the broadcasting programs at Edward R. Murrow High School, and at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School in New York City. She was honored as a MetLife Teaching Fellow through Impact II Teachers Network, and as a Master Teacher by Rutgers University. Currently, Barbara creates Awareness High School to inspire young people, teachers, and parents to take the reins of their own educational development and seek out alternative ways to learn. Ms. Abbate is retired and currently living in Austin, Texas. Please contact Barbara Abbate on her website awarenesshighschool.com or barbaraabbate.com to share and learn about other opportunities along the road to awareness.