How to cultivate joyful, organized focus.

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How to Cultivate Joyful, Organized Focus:

 An Arts Integrated* Lesson for Homeschool Teachers

    *(Lesson includes integrated art modalities such as visual arts, literature, and performance arts.)

Objective: Joyful, organized focus.

Outcome: Task completion. 

Narrative: After assigning the task to "go within" or in other words, taking a few moments each day to engage in solitude and breath work or meditation, we are now reflecting on the experience. Teacher is to award themself one point each time this task is complete. Encouragement was provided to complete the organization of one specific area of the home to provide an outward visual of what is developing within. The objective is organization within and without. 

Spiritual Connection: Exploration of "on earth as it is in heaven" where heaven is a state of mind and earth is our 3-D reality. (Matthew 6:10)

Self-Reflection Exercise: Teacher may choose any creative modality they are drawn to in response to the creative prompts then discuss the process in the next meeting.

Creative Modality/Modalities: _________

Creative Prompts:

1. Which creative modality/modalities did you choose and why?

2. What challenges did you encounter whilst "going within"? 

3. What happened while attempting the task? 

4. How would you improve this task?

5. How might this task support one's ability to organize and focus?

6. How might completing this task for oneself help others?

7. Do you feel this task is important? Why or why not?

8. Why did you decide to become a teacher?

9. How is teaching similar to parenting?

10. What special gifts or talents do you have?

11. How do you incorporate your gifts or talents into your teaching or parenting?

12. If you do not incorporate your gifts or talents into your teaching or parenting, how would you imagine doing so?

13. What compliments would you give yourself as a teacher?

14. What compliments would you give yourself as a parent?

15. In what ways do you show/express gratitude to your loved ones?

16. In what ways do you show/express gratitude and love for yourself?

17. How would you describe your inner voice/ how you talk to yourself?

18. How would you describe how you talk to your loved ones?

19. What are your favorite personality traits?

20. Write a letter to a loved one.

21. Write a love letter to yourself.


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