Category: Love Class

Hello all,

Before attending love class my perception was that Love is a feeling, and the romantic partners are in the center of love.But after attending “Love class”, I have shifted my paradigm. I came to know about the elements of love:- Care, Responsibility, Respect, and knowledge. Love is not to depend on someone.Love is giving the space to each other to grow. That is called spiritual growth.I was very much inspired by the Scott Peck’s definition:-

“The will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth—Scott Peck”.

Apart from that, I learned that Love is an act of will, desire, and action

Love is the risk of – confrontation, commitment, Independence.

In the love class, I also came to know the key principles of marriage

 

Spiritual friendship, commitment, equality, forgiveness, enjoying differences.

We discussed the Eight mental stages of Marriages

• Falling in love
• Honeymoon
• Period of Adjustment
• Something is Missing
• Crisis
• Forgiveness
• Norming and Performing
• Attainment 

In conclusion, I just want to say that true love requires our dedication and effort. “Love class” is a great platform for me to understand the reality of love and through these inspired sessions, I have shifted so many paradigms of mine. I am so thankful to my facilitators to enlighten us.

From:-

Sneha Pareek

Love is not a feeling….What?? Howz that possible? Since childhood we heard about tangible and intangible categories and Yes, by all means it does come to the intangible category.

 

But this is life …. As complicated as our Love Classes which can not be categorized in simple definitions. Or it is actually simple but we somehow made it tangled with our ego, expectations and ”I am always right attitude”….

 

These Love classes helped me to understand it is not easy to love. It needs action, self sacrifice, forgiveness and sometimes “let it go” so that “True Love” comes back to you. Its not between marriage partners but further extends to your colleagues, friends, parents, kids and sometimes people whom you never know, never meet still Love exists and spread its blossoms. It has many stages, needs a lot of patience, self introspection and courage to take responsibilities. It gives you pain but that’s what requires you to shine.

 

Learnings from Life and Love classes integrated together gave many perspectives and assisted to raise myself towards a better understanding of Life and relationships. Thanks to all my facilitators and teammates for uplifting me…..

 

Love…. Swati

An interesting topic to take up for the second year as it involves topic catering to personal life which works symbiotically with handling issues at the work end.

Got to know so many perspectives on what people actually think love is all about and cleared some doubts myself as well. Generally people live with lots of myths about love and end up getting disappointed with their expectations. I could relate to many discussions as I have myself undergone through few of such scenarios.

I enjoyed the parenting session as I got to discuss on the topic which is going to be very handy. I believe it works well with the teachers as well. Certain topics are already known to the teachers given the training we get and the school ideology but it’s all fun to have a detailed discussion on the topic with the peers specially when you have PYP MYP Sr. school staff clubbed together.

Great facilitators both Ms. Brinda and Ms. Krishna, as they shared several examples and were patient listeners as well. Content covered also highly relevant. The environment created is light and conducive for sharing. Overall great job! Keep it up.

Love,

Malvika Gandhi

Its that day of the year again, the last day of the Life/Love classes. The same nostalgic feeling of parting from one and all which we had last year during the last day of 7 habits and the time to reflect upon about what has love class been to me.

Initially, going by the folklore at FS, it seemed to be all about relationships, happy married life, good parenting and all big terminologies of leading the relations.

Then, as the day 1 & 2 reaches end, I understood that rather than to listen about it from others it is better to experience.

Then as day 3 & 4 ends and the facilitators, Roshan madam, Manisha madam and Pretty madam conclude the discussion about Understanding Love, it is there where all the participants got into catch-22 situation with all our understanding and beliefs actually testing the times. But still, it was truly a healthy discussion with a nourishment of our spirits helping us to attain spiritual growth.

With day 5 & 6 into happening, from Love we move onto a healthy and successful Marriage. With the 8 stages of Marriage being broadcasted, I am sure that most of us must have introspecting about which stage they are into and started relating to the sharing happening in the sessions.

The sessions on parenting towards the last sessions of day 7 & 8, though being bit of heavy on our heads and minds were able to give real picture about how a parent should be- a mentor, a friend, a role model, an effective educator and a facilitator with most of the myths about parenting taking a back seat as one explores strategies for healthy parenting.

At the end, I must say that it is worth to experience Love Class before creating a Myth….

To conclude, I would just like to add one of the tracks from amongst those used during our sessions….

 

Hi All,

The following are my key learnings from the love class :

1.Practice what you preach as a parent

2.Show selfless love for your partner in a marriage despite the differences.

3.The different experiences shared by my fellow participants will enable me to look at the things from different perspectives.

My Suggestion:

We should not follow just one book for the love class.Instead, we should use multiple books and sources for discussion.

 

Thanks & Regards

Anbu Packiaraj

Life is not easy either we have to change it or accept it. My myth about ‘love is feeling’ is changed to ‘love is all about willingly extending ourselves.’ It is not only desire but also action. Love is about spiritual growth.
Love is a wide term it covers many elements. What is love and what is not love. Roles of parenting and principles they we had enriching discussion on this. This have changed my way of thinking. Thank you to all the three facilitators they gave many real life examples and we had an enriching discussion throughout which helps to connect well.

The last day of the love class beautifully designed by the lovely facilitators…revisiting the myths of parenting, a movie on tolerance, loyalty, teamwork and trust in others and scrumptious moments of gratitude.

This year, attending Love classes at FS has been moving away from the myths of love and parenting and having rendezvous with many insights from learning experiences that help me take on the world in new, possibility-filled ways. The beautifully designed lessons of love filled me with fresh perspectives and forward-moving actions. I am so thankful that I went through these learning opportunities. They made me realize things that I didn’t know about myself (correction: that I never admitted to myself). I know that I will live a more fulfilling life, thanks to the realizations I came to using love classes. Readings of tender poems and insightful articles rekindled my soul as a parent and I know, I am a better parent and a more love-giving teacher who know the importance of rewards- hugs and  compliments for my kids. They fixed me!

” Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only LIGHT can do that. Hate cannot drive out that, Only LOVE can do that”. – MARTIN LUTHER
If a relationship have understanding, care, kindness and respect for each other, then we say, Love exists. It is all about your happiness and dreams including others happiness and dreams. It is about giving freedom rather than holding on to each other that affects the dreams, goals or success of other partner.

Let go and let forgiveness lead the way forward in LOVE.

Without self-love, you can never truly give love to or receive love from another person.

Don’t let go of your dreams! A strong relationship in LOVE lets you be who you want to be. In a solid, secure relationship, partners support and nurture one another in pursuing their goals and dreams. Being in LOVE doesn’t mean that you need to abandon your dreams! It means to pursue your dream with stronger determination and support.

Love is nurturing yourself and others for enrichment  and progress. It is growing spiritually together.

A wonderful journey of Love classes ends here with a better understanding of what is LOVE and what is being in LOVE.

Thanks and Regards,

Ankita Nandwani.