"We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore the judgement of the intellect is, at best, only half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy."
Carl Jung
"A turnaround will not be possible unless states, communities and individuals are willing to reverse currently prevalent behavioural patterns. It must begin with changes in the human spirit, a reprioritisation of our value system, including relations with people and the interrelationship between humanity and nature."
Mikhail Gorbachev
"Educators, long disturbed by schoolchildren’s lagging scores in math and reading, are realizing there is a different and more alarming deficiency: emotional literacy."
Daniel Goleman author of Emotional Intelligence
"Only you can be your greatest friend and teacher. There is no voice that will ever teach you greater than your own. There is no word written that will ever teach you greater than your own."
Ramtha
Building Brilliance
Building BrillianceTM is the name of our personal empowerment curriculum. A world first, this is one of the major differences between Seven Oaks and all other schools. It is a comprehensive experiential self-empowerment programme, which works at all levels of human life.
At the physical level, its goal is to empower students to develop and maintain a high level of health in the very foundation of their life - their physical body.
At the emotional level, its goal is to empower students to open to the presence of their feelings and to the vital information that is conveyed in them.
At the mental/intellectual level, its goal is to empower students to evaluate and explore the ideas and information that are most appropriate and interesting to them.
At the intuitive level, its goal is to empower students to open to and connect with their own deeper awareness's, their hopes and their dreams so they can discover their most satisfying path in life.
Building BrillianceTM is very much an experiential curriculum. It works by building awareness of students' physical, emotional, mental and intuitive processes, by supporting personal development at all of these levels and by encouraging the expression of them. Rather than being an extra set of subjects to be learned, this curriculum is experienced and absorbed by students consistently each day over their life at Seven Oaks in the way things are done, in the way educators interact with them and in the way that they are encouraged and allowed to participate in the whole of their lives.
The Art Curriculum is an important component of Building BrillianceTM. Its wide variety of personal expression activities are primarily inspired by the growing awareness of self that students develop particularly at the emotional and intuitive levels of their life.
Likewise, PE and Sport activities are guided by the desire in each student to experience a healthy physical body and to express their physical self in a way that is most appropriate for them