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The Nature of Sensitivity

At the very heart of the values and virtues most parents want for their children is the basic quality of empathy and sensitivity toward other people and toward the beauty and potential of the world and of life itself. Children who learn to care and to feel vastly expand their potential to be happy as well as their capacity to give happiness to those they will love throughout their lives.

This program, then, is about the core virtue of humankind - about the value of sensitivity that can make the lives of our children (and ourselves) full and complete.

Becoming a truly sensitive person involves learning a sequence of skills and awareness levels - all of which takes practice and repetition - none of which can be mastered overnight. The strategy of this program is to work with children on one aspect of sensitivity for a full month - then to move to the next sequential skill for the following month.

In all there are nine abilities - nine separate virtues or aspects of sensitivity, each of which builds on and expands on the previous one and all of which grow together to create the complete quality of a sensitive, caring approach to life. Over the course of several months, you can give this gift to your children and, in the process, you will give it to yourself as well.

• Meanings of SENSITIVITY
• Program Overview
• Why It's Tough
• Symptoms vs. Causes