Educational philsophy
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You are not alone. There is an awakening happening as we become aware of the need for an educational paradigm shift and living models to bring it forth. Something that will benefit not just ourselves, but humanity.
Imagine an education that doesn’t just fill your mind with facts but also nurtures your heart and soul.
What are the skills and qualities we need, if we want to build a better future?
Developed by a global network of experts, the IDGs (Inner Development Goals) provide a research-based framework for cultivating the inner qualities—like empathy, resilience, and collaborative intelligence—that are essential for addressing complex global challenges.
At The Gift Academy, we are integrating the IDGs into our curriculum to ensure that personal development translates into global impact. By focusing on these critical inner skills, our students are empowered to become effective leaders and changemakers capable of contributing to a more sustainable, just, and compassionate world.
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In an age of artificial intelligence, developing our many human intelligences is essential
Fourth Industrial Revolution Intelligences (4RI)
These 10 intelligences are what we need to produce leadership that matches the intensity and complexity of our times
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how we understand and apply our knowledge
how we process and integrate our thoughts and feelings and relate to ourselves and to one another
how we use a sense of individual and shared purpose, trust, and other virtues to effect change and act towards the common good
how we cultivate and maintain our personal health and well-being and that of those around us to be able to apply the energy required for both individual and systems transformation
how we recognize opportunity through the synthesis of the whole and creatively combine resources
how we adapt to changing environments; gather, examine, and disseminate intelligence of strategic value
how we understand a system in relation to its larger context, relationships, and connections, integrating the information from separate disciplines
how we grow and develop within the setting of the system of relationships that form our environment; the impact the environment factors have on us, and how we impact one another and our environment
how we analyze ideas in terms of their opposites with the objective of creating a more enlightened synthesis
how we differentiate between what is right and what is wrong, reach decisions and make choices based on this differentiation
