Family Beginning Anew

We are happy to offer you this sharing on the practice of beginning anew for families as we continue our summer opening retreat here in Plum Village France. A 'beautiful, simple yet deep' practice that has the capacity to...

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Family Beginning Anew

If you know how to water each other’s flowers, imagine what a beautiful family you can have

Beginning Anew is a key Plum Village practice for maintaining healthy relationships and healing difficult relationships. During the Summer Opening Retreat we offer a session for families, including children, teens and their parents every week. The practice is described as ‘beautiful, simple, yet deep’ and many families feel inspired to integrate the practice into their daily lives.

We are happy to offer you a short video sharing the practice of Beginning Anew during the Children’s Programme in Plum Village France 2009.

Flower Watering during Beginning Anew

I'm so proud of you this week you've made friends so easily you've shown a part of your wonderful character which is your friendliness to everyone.You glue us together with the thing that you wrap around us, which is, I think, your freedom. You always bring new things into our family. You always give us reasons to hope and you give us a whole expanse of lovely things that we can look forward toI wanted to experience the love, the only love you experience when you have a child but I didn't realize you were also going to be my teacher. You have taught me so much about the joy of the present moment and about what love really means

To learn more about the practice of Beginning Anew click here

Orlaith O’Sullivan teaches children how to truly appreciate those around them by reading from her new book We Are All Flowers.

In this 8-minute video, children learn the art of ‘Flower Watering’ where they learn to see the good qualities of others and themselves and to express appreciation for them.

Orlaith O’Sullivan is a founding member of the Community of Contemplative Education, Mind & Life Europe’s group to cultivate human flourishing through education, which offers research, evidence-base, and overviews to deepen our understanding of what works and how. O’Sullivan is also the International Coordinator of Wake Up Schools, the award-winning grassroots organization for mindfulness in education. She lives in Dublin, Ireland.

You can also purchase Orla’s book ‘We Are All Flowers’ from the Parallax Press website.

We Are All Flowers by Orlaith O’Sullivan