Clowns for Peace
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Young clowns are the key.
As confident as Micko is about our potential to create a Global Love Spiral right now, Micko is even more confident that over time clowns can create a Grand Love Spiral in which all clowns are happy and fulfilled and Love Flows across our planet with no barriers.
Micko believes that the key to creating this Grand Love Spiral is how we help young clowns understand and guide their Love Flow over the upcoming generations.
FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel) talks about the power of the young clown mind, that wants to explore new solutions to old ways of doing things may save our planet. FlowingLove believes it’s crucial for adult clowns and young clowns to work together, over generations, to create a better world.
Young Clown Brains
Young clown brains are like sponges: they are made to absorb information.
Illustration…sponge brain
or adult, sponge, cleaning up spill
both, young watching adult
Young clown learning.
Young clowns absorb this information in a process that involves the constant creation of new connections between brain cells in their brains.
We call this learning.
For instance, young clowns learn skills such as how to use eating utensils like chopstick and forks, language, riding a bike, juggling, squirting seltzer, throwing pies
Illustration…sponge brain…arrows…things , first example in illustration
Cumulative learning,
After these new connections are created in the brains and therefore the clowns learn more and more things, they can then build on that by learning more things.
This new learning is also created by new connections in the brains.
For instance, right away :
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Cumulative learning, later in life
(later,
by continuing to learn a vast amount of things as they grow up.
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(Relate to later: cumulative tradition)
Internalizing beliefs, feelings, or attitudes.
Sometimes young clowns absorb beliefs, values, attitudes, and feelings from other clowns and adopt them as their own.
This is a different type of learning than learning skills and is know as “internalizing”.
Become part of belief system
Negative internalization
you are stupid
those people….
positive?
you are so creative, loving, caring
neutral?
Image: same illustration but with internalization of values, feelings, attitudes
You are stupid, loser…
Those people…are….
Maybe use this set later?
Same image: one year
Same image: later in life.
Positive internalization
Image: same illustration but with internalization of values, feelings, attitudes
You are smart, good person, loving person, creative
Those people…are….
Maybe use this set later?
same image: one year
Same image: later in life
Flexibility vs. rigidity
Have beliefs, attitudes, feelings…
DS river…rididity vs chaos
Spirals?
Learn to make own decisions…
DS river…rigidity vs chaos
Understand notion of making own decision
Realizing when one has fixed idea, not open to others’ ideas or other possibilities
Others’ helping young clown learn to decide for self, rather than saying answer, telling what to do, ignoring young clown’s opinions altogether
Self-regulated learning
Make their own decisions about their Flow of Love
Buy-in to
the belief that more Love Flow is a good thing
the belief that more Love Flow is a good thing for them
the belief that we are all one
me and we, me and them, One, expanded ID, all-inclusive ID
Synergy, win-win, All win is good
Love should Flow within and between all clowns
Notion that we can increase Love Flow within and between ourselves and all other clowns
The role of adult clowns in the development of young clowns
Role modeling and Implicit learning.
Everything adult clowns do or say in front of young clowns becomes part of what young clowns learn about their world.
Implicit learning
mental maps
Attitudes, beliefs, values, skills
That is why it is so important what parents,
teachers, teacher’s aides, extended family, family friends, neighbors, other
other caregivers, neighbors, the media, social media. and the rest of us adult clowns maximize positivity and minimize negativity in all of our actions.
Not so good role modeling
Good role modeling
parents
teachers
teacher’s aides
extended family
Day care, baby sitters, and other caregivers
neighbors or family friends
Clowns involved in media and social media.
The rest of us adult clowns.
store
store
Parents
teachers
teacher aids
extended family or family friends
neighbors
other caregivers like day care
media and social media
The rest of us adult clowns
Deliberate efforts to help young clowns/explicit teaching, learning
Understand the Flow of Love
Understand their Flow of Love
Make their own decisions about their Flow of Love
Buy-in to
the belief that more Love Flow is a good thing
the belief that more Love Flow is a good thing for them
the belief that we are all one
me and we, me and them, One, expanded ID, all-inclusive ID
Synergy, win-win, All win is good
Love should Flow within and between all clowns
Notion that we can increase Love Flow within and between ourselves and all other clowns
Experience situations in which they can…..
Generational shifts…
How does all this info re. young clowns’ learning and decision making relate to our generational potential to create a world of peace and Love?
Micko….believes that cultural changes over a generation results in a different world that the next generation of young clowns learn about than the world the first generation learned about.
When Micko started developing Ideas about world peace and universal love 50+ years ago there were no personal computers, Internet, social media platforms, cell phones, apps etc. Micko grew up helping his father change tubes in the family’s black and white television.
Image: Micko and parent…
CosmicLove (Carl Sagan) talked about how fast things were changing in Clown Nation by putting all know events in the history of our world into a one calendar year—the first seconds of January 1st to the last seconds of December 31. CosmicLove said that all of clown evolution took place in the last seconds of the year and……..happened in. Micko notes that at the time CosmicLove talked about the Cosmic Calendar, personal computers, the Internet, cell phones, social media, apps etc. did not exist—they came about in the following decades—therefore CosmicLove did not include them in his calendar.
Another notion about clown learning is the notion of “cumulative tradition”. For instance, other critters mostly learn what they learn from watching their parents. The learning does not evolve like clown learning. Remember we saw how clowns learn cumulatively? This allows things to happen at a much faster pace than before clowns.
Images: relate to extensions of earlier sets of images.
Micko thinks that over the upcoming generations: The young clowns of each generation will create new worlds, and each new generation of young clowns (young brains) will “absorb”, or “internalize” or “learn about” a new world…and then that generation will create new worlds for future generations.
DS comments young brain potential….
How young clowns in upcoming generations create new worlds and what kind of worlds they create will depend to a large extent on how adult clowns help (or don’t help) young clowns understand the Flow of Love and to guide the Flow of Love within themselves and between themselves and our world.
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The Flow of Love Meme
A simple phrase that allows us to present many variations for better understanding…
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