International FiBS-Projects
The FiBS-Foundation in Hungary has set itself the task of teaching the spiritual FiBS-Pedagogy to children and young people in schools. The implementation with a daily teaching unit is carried out with the help of a special spiritual FiBS-Curriculum by pedagogically trained FiBS teachers.
FiBS is geared towards the needs of the individual children – based on their respective stage of development – and fosters their individual abilities in the best possible way through multisensory learning.
FiBS supports the holistic development of children – intellectually, physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, artistically, ethically and spiritually.
Integration classes give children with physical, mental or physical disabilities the opportunity to adapt to their environment and to feel that they belong, have equal rights and are accepted.
The primary and elementary art school of the “Kincskeresö” Foundation in Tatabánya, Hungary was an innovative all-day school from 1995-2010. Under the leadership of director Maklari-Kis Tünde, the spiritual FiBS pedagogy was taught from 2006-2010 – 160 students from first to eighth grade. Unfortunately, the private school had to close in 2010 for financial reasons.
The FiBS spiritual pedagogy curriculum included:
1. Personal Ethical and Spiritual Development
Non-violence, honesty, thought control, gratitude, love for all creation, selfless service, healthy nutrition, personal goal setting, motivation.
2. Respectful Treatment of Others
Mindfulness, conflict resolution, power and strength of thoughts, loving dialog, recognition of other cultures.
3. Spiritual Life
Spiritual way of life, life of saints and mystics, acceptance of all world religions.
4. Spirituality in Art
Painting, sculpture, music, dance and poetry.
5. Project Work
Self-study, selfless service, cultural program.
The spiritual curriculum also included teamwork, heart-to-heart communication, discernment, personal responsibility, emotional competence, social action with head, heart and hand, as well as learning according to learning type. Concentration exercises and sporting activities completed the holistic school concept.
And the most important thing: there was always a short meditation at the beginning of the lesson.
The teachers were trained in FiBS-Pedagogy. There was a regular exchange of experiences between the FiBS chairperson and the FiBS teachers at the school.
The FiBS textbooks for the pupils and FiBS teacher’s manuals formed the basis of the FiBS lessons at the school.
Director Maklari-Kis Tünde reports:
„The spiritual FiBS-Pedagogy yielded a significant improvement in the pupil’s social behavior, reduction of aggression and anxiety, better concentration and learning results, more loving interaction with each other, more harmony in the class community and respectful interactions between teachers, students and parents.”
FiBS-Summer-Learning-Camps in Austria
Between 2004 and 2010, the FiBS-Association organized a total of 10 one-week
summer learning camps for about 550 children and young people between the
ages of 6 and 16 at an agricultural school with boarding facilities in Austria.
FiBS-Slogan: „Learning for life with enthusiasm and joy.“
In the morning, the classes were divided by age, the FiBS-Pedagogy was taught and in the afternoon most diverse creative and sports workshops were offered, as well as a variety of leisure program
Learning workshops
In the morning learning workshops, the children and young people were taught the following topics by FiBS-Pedagogues:
- Awareness and personal development, ethical-spiritual values
- Conflict resolution, heart-to-heart-communication, improving social behavior, learning about the power and strength of thoughts
- Strengthening self-esteem and self-confidence, promoting creativity and intuition
- Independent learning and acting, time management
- Cultivation of team spirit and a sense of community
- Attention training, concentration exercises, harmonization of the brain hemispheres
Learning type identification – each pupil was able to discover their true strengths and get to know the best personal learning method and technique tailored to their learning type in order to learn more easily and efficiently in the future.
Creative workshops
Here, the children were able to discover and develop their creative talent under professional guidance, such as
- Building and playing musical instruments
- Creative handicrafts with natural materials
- Discovering the miracles of nature
- Painting and drawing workshop
- Spontaneous and meditative work with clay and soapstone
- Shape, create and paint an own plaster mask
- Color workshop
- Wood carving workshop
- Pyrography
- Sewing workshop
- Sketch and theatre workshop
- Sportive archery
- Cooking course and creating table decorations
- Yoga for children
Leisure activities
Many sporting activities such as soccer, beach volleyball, tennis, table tennis, apparatus work, gymnastics, jogging, water slide, slackline-balance exercises.
Not to mention the popular silence exercises, yoga exercises, fantasy journeys and meditation, where the children get in touch with their inner source of strength.
Evening program
A review of the day, music program, torchlight hike, puzzle rally, the popular FiBS-Olympics and at the end a closing party with a big talent show for parents, siblings, relatives and friends.
Even the so-called “difficult” children felt understood and accepted by the loving care and were given new perspectives to help them cope better with their problems.