WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:04.440 Trust me. Let's go! 14 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:33.719 The group itself is different every time. 15 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:37.359 It depends whether some of them know their way around here, 16 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:40.359 feel at home already or if they’re totally new. 17 00:01:40.359 --> 00:01:43.280 Sometimes we have kids that aren’t used to it yet. 18 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:47.879 And we give them a lot of free space. Just to be here. 19 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:49.920 We don’t do much instructed stuff. 20 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:57.040 And if I see there’s a group that just isn’t getting into it then I can try to get them going by doing something instructed. But that rarely happens. 21 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:03.359 If you give them enough time and let them simmer in their own juice, then they start on their own eventually. 22 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:06.760 Especially if the environment is conducive. 27 00:03:55.719 --> 00:03:57.400 I notice it myself too. 28 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.319 I have this bemusement. 29 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:08.199 But I’m definitely sure: the basis for change of any kind is that young people have fun in their environment, 30 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:09.719 in their natural world. 31 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:13.520 They must not loose the ground beneath their feet. 32 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.839 They must know: I belong here. 33 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.879 And you don’t even have to show them this. You just have to let go of them. 34 00:04:49.480 --> 00:04:55.240 I think if I didn’t have this conviction anymore that natural spaces work then I could give up. 35 00:04:55.240 --> 00:05:01.639 If I loose the conviction, if I stop feeling it myself, what happens in a natural space, 36 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:05.160 what it’s like with being inside and being outside, the internal and external. 37 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:12.720 If I don’t feel that myself then I can’t sit down with a clear conscience and say: 38 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:15.639 Wait for it, three hours, something will happen with the kids. 39 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:50.000 We are here at the Heinrich Hueter Hut close to the mountain Zimba in Montafon Valley. 40 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.759 I have a workshop here for future family-group supervisors 41 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:59.040 who will be out and about with families for the Alpine Club. 42 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:03.959 We started here and spent a few days: 43 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:11.199 observing children, comprehending the gaze of children a little and supporting their exploratory spirit. 44 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:20.720 Instigating their curiosity and just getting a feeling for nature, for interacting and maybe building a connection. 45 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:25.720 So that in the future we can be out and about in nature in a good way. 46 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:28.040 You really notice how things slow down. 47 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:35.680 At the beginning the participants are all about: we’re moving. We’re on our way. We want to reach a goal. 48 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:41.639 Then little by little, when you continue to make them aware about what’s left and right of the path, 49 00:06:41.639 --> 00:06:48.480 or when you just let the kids explore. When you tell them: look at this. Hold on for a bit and look what the kids are doing. 50 00:06:48.480 --> 00:06:53.399 That’s when you really notice how the process slowly begins with the parents. 51 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:56.439 That’s when they start to realize, oh yeah, you can experience nature like this too. 52 00:06:56.439 --> 00:07:04.560 You don’t always have to reach a goal, but the path, right here where we are, that’s exactly where we want to be. 53 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:39.040 Who accompanies kids and teenagers as parents or their main caretaker? 54 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.680 Who likes kids and teenagers? 55 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:30.279 Yes, we have children with burnout with nine years: internalized entitlement to performance through self-optimization. 56 00:08:30.279 --> 00:08:33.120 And how do we respond? We need more psychologists. 57 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:34.960 That can’t be the solution. 58 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:39.919 We need a system change in society. We need a system change in school. 59 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.200 Away from this transfer of knowledge, making kids a means to a purpose, 60 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:48.279 towards humanity, developing their potential and meaningful actions. 61 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:57.600 What really counts and what doesn’t cost a cent is appreciation, partnership, participation, responsibility and meaning. That’s what we’re all here for. 62 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:02.159 It costs nothing. It's a change in attitude. It has to do with courage. 63 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:05.919 It has to do with the steps we’re taking now towards change. 64 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:10.279 Not just waiting for a law to be passed or something like that. This law will never come. 65 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:15.360 The basic principle is simply that you understand humans as responsible beings. 66 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:20.240 Also children. We can learn a lot from children. Children are very competent beings. 67 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:29.960 A lot would be gained if we would learn from them, if we would get down on their level and go with them together into the new.