The role of the adult that has been specially trained and is able to respond to the child when the needs of his inner child become stimulated and concentrated. To help the child towards normalization the Director is in constant contact with the child linking him to the environment, directing his untapped energies and helping them to attach to objects, skills and experiences. To do so she must be able to recognize his inner nature and offer discrete and loving aid, to do this she uses theoretical knowledge and her own experiences to best guess ‘how to assist the right person at the right time in the right manner, to know what is necessary and what is sufficient, the aim being to, ‘help him help himself’. Her help is ‘an aid to develop the child’s development’, not to do his work for him.
The Preparation of a teacher
1. Spiritual level
The Director needs to be a person who sees herself as someone developing her own inner nature, reducing her ego and negativity, being both a humble, compassionate and a wise guide. She recognizes her limitations, prejudices, develops her knowledge and energies and readily admits to mistaken unjust actions based on her pride and arrogance. The child will forgive mistakes admitted and addressed but lies and incongruent actions will cut him off from his teacher. It is vital that the teacher understands the child as an individual and social being fully and can view him with multiple perspectives, as the child he appears to be and his potential inner nature. The teacher is polite and patient with the child, empathetic and objective. She employs realistic rules consistently and with a composed, professional and necessary firmness she establishes her classroom and responds in an emergency by modeling her calm presence.
The director has self confidence in her abilities and her training, she makes good decisions and can explain her actions to students, colleagues and parents well, without being arrogant, as she is