Playing, Learning, Meeting the Other

This must have been a wonderful conference to attend, for each of the lectures given goes straight to the heart of the matter in the warmest, most interesting way possible. There isn’t a one of them that comes off as too academic or too fuzzy – my experience in reading them is that there are nuggets of gold in every lecture that can easily and fruitfully be taken into the world as gifts for young children. This is a powerful little book.

Contents:

• Note from the Editor of the English Edition
• Biographical Notes on the Lecturers
• Preface from the German Edition
• Meeting the Other: The Human Encounter – Dr. Heinz Zimmermann
• The Healing Power of Play – Joan Almon
• Acceleration, Retardation, and Healthy Development – Dr. Michaela Glöckler
• The Formative Foreces at the Threshold of the Second Seven-Year Period – Christof Wiechert
• Meeting the Other: The Encounter with Human an Spiritual Beings – Dr. Heinz Zimmermann