Teaching For True Freedom

Some young students, with Kim in the middle.

South Africa has evolved from a society that promoted apartheid. But the nation has many issues yet to address, including its large number of AIDS orphans.

That's where Kim Feinberg enters. And she has experience and vision to see the problems, but also give hope. From a young age, she has promoted tolerance and developed a curriculum to teach life skills to thousands of children.

But she also knows that those who teach life skills just can't walk into a school and say that that's what they do. There has to be a person's qualifications, characteristics that render that individual expert enough to provide that education. As Kim says, "I realized that you can teach the life skills..., but if it's not underpinned by an academic degree or qualification or skill, it doesn't work, because no one simply employs you on life skills."



Kim founded THE TOMORROW TRUST to formalize a curriculum, but also a way of living. This group operates holistically, threading its way through its young (and older) students' lives. It provides support beyond the classroom, helping children to negotiate a world in which parents may have already died, in other words, life in a household headed by a child.

So, whenever a child needs some help, help is there and addresses that issue. Children can also envision a future in which they have an important role. As Kim says, "If Tomorrow Trust is creating positive role models, they then change their families and communities, because now they see a very different story, and they want a very different story. So you have massive ripple effects going on."

Support is provided from the beginning, through post secondary level of education. That's how future teachers become prepared to provide the holistic educational experience that they had when they were young. One could say that Kim's influence is spreading well beyond her spot in this particular time and place, spreading her group's holistic approach wherever her completely prepared students would travel in life.

Young students at meal time.

Recently, Ms. Normand-Feinberg completed completed a program in neuro-linguistic programming, qualifying her as an NLP practitioner. She now has additional background to help her students to overcome obstacles and provide an additional dimension to helping students become more empathic. Once young adults have completed the entire program and become employed, they give back a portion of their salaries for the first two years in order to support others in the program.

As Kim says, ""[W]e encourage them to impact others in a very positive way...because now they see themselves as having more than someone else. So they're not just seeing themselves as coming from trauma, they're actually seeing that they come from a space of gratitude." And it may actually change the way their brain functions, from bound by trauma to being players in the way their lives unfold.

Workshop on how emotions work.

Thanks to this article from Daily Good News: http://www.dailygood.org/story/1050/what-fosters-true-freedom-dan-schiff/; and this bio from Kim Normand-Feinberg's web site: http://www.kimnormandfeinberg.com/.

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