Empowerment Curriculum Design Process Part 1; Self Knowledge
Channel: Keyvan Geula
Date: 2016-03-21

Palomares Empowerment Program (PEP) team directed by Keyvan Geula LMFT is sharing their curriculum design process. The team plans and implements a curriculum based on where the inner-city students are and what seems to be effective in empowering them to know themselves, to manage and direct their own inner Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker, to the best of their ability and with the help and support of the school, their friends and an evolving loving community.

Below are some of the Sacred Writings that have been our compass and guide to bring the science of mental health and the religion of God in discovering the path less traveled today, The well-being of mankind.
“man should know his own self and recognize that which leadeth unto loftiness or lowliness, glory or abasement, wealth or poverty.” – Tablets of Baha’u’llah, p. 35.

The world is but a show, vain and empty, a mere nothing, bearing the semblance of reality. Set not your affections upon it. Break not the bond that uniteth you with your Creator, and be not of those that have erred and strayed from His ways. Verily I say, the world is like the vapor in a desert, which the thirsty dreameth to be water and striveth after it with all his might, until when he cometh unto it, he findeth it to be mere illusion. – Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah, p. 328.
Rejoice not in the things ye possess; tonight they are yours, tomorrow others will possess them. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Informed. Say: Can ye claim that what ye own is lasting or secure? Nay! By Myself, the All-Merciful . . . The days of your life flee away as a breath of wind, and all your pomp and glory shall be folded up as were the pomp and glory of those gone before you. Reflect, O people! What hath become of your bygone days, your lost centuries? Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise. By My life! Neither the pomp of the mighty, nor the wealth of the rich, nor even the ascendancy of the ungodly will endure. All will perish, at a word from Him. – Ibid., p. 138.