“Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.”
Rudolf Steiner
Welcome to the work of Dr. Lakshmi Prasanna. Trained as a developmental pediatrician, Lakshmi partners with schools and parents to help them understand the power of education to heal. Lakshmi is the co-author of Autism: Meet Me Who I Am, and conducts workshops and one-to-one consultations around the world.
Listen.
The DocLakshmi Podcast shares the wisdom and experience gained from a place of a healer and teacher. She is able to bring a voice to the ideas and thoughts so many of us have surrounding human development and how they translate to the role of parent or teacher.
She will be a bridge between your deepest questions and your greatest hope for the children in your care, by first caring for you with a loving wisdom that is so often missing in the community of education today.
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Dr. Prasanna guides parents and teachers from the point of view of love. She believes that children are a sacred gift we receive. She honors and cherishes the parents that were chosen to receive that child into their life and marvels at the mystery of why each parent was chosen. She begins with you and guides you through a new understanding of your development so that you can guide the children in their biography.
Lakshmi’s philosophy of education is a pedagogy based on reverence and love. The teacher is not so much an instructor as they are an artist.
Lakshmi empowers students with the understanding that each child becomes a mystery and question. Not how to educate him or her to some preconceived end, but rather how to nurture the child that chose you as his or her parents.
Connect.
It all began with groups of students in India, Australia, and the United States that would come to Lakshmi’s talks and workshops to be forever changed in their thinking about their own development, and by extension their view of the children in their care. Hundreds of men and women from all walks of life shared time in-person at workshops and seminars, until the recent global health crisis required a new way to be connected. The community forum is a gathering space, or as one student shared, “a spiritual retreat on your laptop.” It takes the form of everyone who joins, sharing their artistic expressions in poetry, art, and song to support one another and communities around the world with whom each member is connected. It is a place for the spirit to gather strength.
