TEACHER AS HEALER: How to Create a School Culture of Wholeness, Wellness, and Peaceful Living

TEACHER AS HEALER is designed for all spiritually- and peace-oriented elementary school teachers, parents, school psychologists, and principals of all faiths. It acknowledges, gently and universally, a Higher Power–the Creator of all that exists, of all that we teach and learn about.

This book aims to cultivate upright human behavior and peaceful living in our schools, homes and society. In a world rife with widespread conflict, both inner and outer, violence and war, this book empowers educators and parents to make a positive impact by fostering a culture of wellness. It advocates for a soul-centered, therapeutically informed approach to education that nurtures the whole person–physically, emotionally, socially, mindfully, and spiritually.

To accomplish the above, TEACHER AS HEALER offers practical tools and teaching strategies within a brilliant, holistic, and all-inclusive educational framework that incorporates everything one teaches, from the macrocosm to the microcosm. This book also reveals a suggested curriculum program that you can emulate to show how your teaching can be plugged into it. It is an essential teaching resource with worksheets and a practical curriculum guide, offering beneficial programs, ‘therapeutic’ tools, charts, pictures, and helpful teaching and learning strategies for children to joyfully learn best, and for teachers to heartfully teach best.

Emphasizing the urgent need to reclaim spirituality in our educational system, TEACHER AS HEALER guides readers on how to gently and universally integrate spirituality and consciousness into their educational practices. It offers many practical ways to embed upright universal spiritual values, virtues, ethics, unity, loving-kindness, respect for differences, conflict resolution, humane relationships, and ecological awareness into one’s curriculum, along with 7 Universal Principles of Upstanding Human Conduct known as the 7 Noahide Laws. All these elements are essential for enhancing our relationships with ourselves, others, society, and the world around us. All are essential to help bring Heaven down to Earth.

The foundation of TEACHER AS HEALER is the author’s doctoral research at McGill University, recognized on the Dean’s Honor List for its potential positive impact on our youth and society. This research underscores the book’s comprehensive approach to integrating spiritual and therapeutic elements into education, making it an invaluable resource for fostering holistic development and a culture of peaceful living.

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“TEACHER AS HEALER is an all-encompassing attempt to answer the questions of what should be taught to our children and what role teachers (and parents) should play in implementing the important goals of education.
… Who should read this book? I believe that it is a valuable resource for anyone with a serious interest in education. It contains theoretical educational perspectives as well as practical programs. For all educators currently in the field, teachers, administrators and parents, I highly recommend dipping into this book and preferably studying it thoroughly. For prospective teachers, I suggest that reading this book should be a requirement. I would like to see copies in the libraries of teacher-training institutions and professional libraries in schools throughout the world.”

Dr. Trudy Zuckermann, Ed.D. Retired Teacher, Educator & Teacher-Trainer

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“TEACHER AS HEALER…is especially valuable in focusing closely on the transformation and building of school cultures of peace. This book contains messages the world needs to hear.”

Dr. David C. Smith, Former Dean of Education & Emeritus Professor, McGill University