June 26 – August 7 – Six Weeks
“In the summer of 1966, summer participants were in three groups of approximately 50 each: clergy, teachers and students. The teachers focused on imaginal education as well as methods of working together to create a revolution in the schools. We developed curriculum for our subject areas and mostly fell in love with the idea of having a team to work with, doing important work in the civil rights movement. Several of us returned in the fall to teach in the neighborhood public schools. For me, it was my first year as a high school math teacher at John Marshall High School. Marshall had 5000 students just as my home town in Pipestone, MN had 5000 residents. It was a time of much learning for all of us. We created a teachers cadre, composed of elementary, middle and high school teachers (maybe 15). We met regularly – often daily – to compare notes and develop new ideas for curriculum. We created “image explosions” to offer alternative personal understandings. They followed the formula of our basic understandings in our religious courses: All of life is good, my life is received, the past is approved, the future is open, and what it means to be the church is to serve the world. This five-part rhythm became the basis for offering transformative images for children at all age levels. The cadre worked with youth in the neighborhood and continued to develop the spiral curriculum, the life triangles and the first imaginal education course for educators.” As told by Marilyn Oyler in 2018
- Corporate Life: Internal Dynamics, Donna McCleskey
- Brochures
Clergy:
- Readings
- Cadre Story, Conway, Massachusetts
- Parish Cadre Training Corp
- Local Congregation Covenant Group, Chicago Southeast Sector Cadre and North Area
- Manifesto of the Spirit Movement, July 31
Teachers:
- Teacher Training Institute with Roster
- Teacher Training Institute – Report and Evaluation
- Teacher Cadre: High School Image Curriculum
College Students: