This Rainbow Story goes beautifully with the Quest for Life Rainbow Ritual. Share your children’s rainbow drawings in our special Rainbow Gallery section on the website and we’d love to hear your story of what rainbows mean to you, after reading this story. Once upon a time the colours of the world started to quarrel: [...]
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The Rainbow Story: How the Rainbow Came to Be
Posted in Children, Guest blogger, Rainbow, tagged Children, Colours, Community, Drawings, Quest for Life, Rainbow, Rainbow Ritual, Story on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Resilience – a personal story
Posted in Children, Margie Braunstein, tagged Children, Flood, Margie Braunstein, Psychologist, Trauma on January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My son is now 19 years old. My daughter is 17 and my step daughter is 29. 13 years ago, when they were 6, 4 and 16, my husband took them all to visit a friend in Kangaroo Valley while I was away at a conference in Forster. On the way down it started to [...]
A Christmas Story
Posted in Children, Inspiration, tagged Christmas, giving, helping others, Inspiration, Kate vanderVoort on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I learned from a very young age about giving to others at Christmas. Mum and Dad still remind me that they would put me in a pouch on their front when I was a baby and go and feed homeless people on Christmas day. In later years, as a teenager, we used to go with [...]
The Empty Chair at Christmas
Posted in Children, Petrea King, Quest for Life, tagged Children, Christmas, Empty Chair, Grief, Ritual on December 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A Father Dead I cannot speak to my children about their father – He is lost to them and to me. There is an empty space where a father should be. There is an empty space where a husband should be. There is a sea of grief between me and my children And I cannot [...]
Building Resilient Children
Posted in Children, Petrea King, tagged Children, Neuroscience, Petrea King, resilience on August 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There has never been a time in history where children are so subjected to information about and pictures of, suffering. Some families are eating dinner while there are images of great suffering on the television news and both print media and radio news can conjure up pictures that children may find anxiety provoking. Children can [...]
Rainbow Ritual
Posted in Children, Meditation, tagged Children, Healing, Meditation, Petrea King, Rainbows on July 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This ritual has developed out of our work in helping children deal with challenging, sad or distressing news. We have found it to be a wonderful blessing for children and a comfort for their parents. You can take as long or as little time with this ritual as seems appropriate for the age of the [...]
Building Resilient Children
Posted in Children, tagged Behaviour, Brain, care, Children, compassion, Neuroscience, Petrea King, resilience, Skills, stress on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There has never been a time in history where children are so subjected to information about and pictures of, suffering. Some families are eating dinner while there are images of great suffering on the television news and both print media and radio news can conjure up pictures that children may find anxiety provoking. Children can [...]
