MINW from the Inside

Think of a time recently where you undertook a task, game, or pastime that you really enjoyed. Maybe it was a Sudoku puzzle, or stripping wallpaper off a wall, or doing a craft project, or completing a jigsaw puzzle. Were you having fun? Yeah, you were. Not laugh-out-loud, knee-slapping, hysterical laughter fun, but rather a kind of deeply satisfying enjoyment. If I looked at you in that moment, your face would most likely be expressionless, …

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How do you know you’ve performed a task correctly? What does it take to be able to say, “That went well”, or “I could have done better”? As adults, we self-correct constantly and pretty much unconsciously: speeding up our work so we can be ready for that 3pm meeting, putting some broccoli back into the bag if we accidentally take out too much, stabilizing our overfull mug of coffee as we walk across the room.  …

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Last week, several MINW staff members and friends who attended AMI’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Amsterdam had the opportunity to tour several historical Montessori sites in the Netherlands. Cathryn Kasper, from Corvallis, Oregon, orchestrated the tour with the help of Montessori historian Fred Kelpin, who, after some questions, humbly revealed that he had been knighted by the Queen for his work in Montessori education in the Netherlands. After a weekend of meetings and presentations …

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