The Path of the 12 Petalled Lotus™ 

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12 Petalled Lotus

Human Development Education

 We explore how we come to be who we are, and what remains possible as we continue developing throughout our lives.

Understand your life more deeply.

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Human Development Across a Lifetime

The Pathways explore human development across the lifespan—from birth through to death.

They help us understand how our lives take shape, what influences us along the way, and what remains possible as we continue to develop.

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Twelve Qualities of the Heart

The twelve petals come from ancient teachings that associate them with twelve qualities of the heart. 

Purity • Love • Understanding • Clarity • Empathy • Kindness • Harmony • Peace • Unity • Compassion • Bliss • Forgiveness

Within 12 Petalled Lotus, these qualities are understood as sacred possibilities for human expression that can be explored, embodied, and freely chosen. They also offer a contemplative lens through which we can explore and deepen our understanding of each Pathway.

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We Learn by Being Together

Through conversation, reflection, curiosity and shared experience, we become interested not only in our own lives, but in how other people came to be who they are.

Together, we illuminate the experience of each other's lives.

Human development is participatory. Understanding can deepen simply through being together.

As we bring our experiences, encounter difference with curiosity, and become genuinely interested in one another, community and belonging can grow.

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The Body Is Part of How We Know

At 12 Petalled Lotus, learning includes the body as well as the mind.

We think, talk and reflect — and we also pay attention to what we experience through the body.

Sensation, emotion, movement, activation, settling and connection can all offer information about our experience and help us understand our lives more deeply.

Our approach is informed by embodied and nervous-system understandings of human development, including principles drawn from Somatic Experiencing.

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Tools for Looking More Closely

Within the 12 Petalled Lotus body of work, we have developed tools that help us explore different aspects of human experience.

ESAM — Embodied Secure Attachment Method

ESAM helps us notice what happens within us and between us in relationship.

Through Timing, Tone, Touch, Transparency and Tending, we can look more closely at how connection is experienced and expressed in everyday life.

Integrated Human Development Model

Our developing Integrated Human Development Model brings together different perspectives on human development, helping us understand individual experiences within the larger course of a human life.

The model draws upon knowledge from human development, attachment, psychology, neuroscience, and related fields of study.

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There are different ways to participate in the 12 Petalled Lotus body of work.

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 Understand Your Life More Deeply

We spend our lives becoming who we are.

There is always more to understand — about where we have come from, what has shaped us, the people whose lives meet ours, and what may still be possible. 

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Who Is This Learning For 

12 Petalled Lotus is for people who want to understand themselves, their relationships, and the experiences that have shaped their lives.

You may arrive with a particular question, a recurring pattern, a relationship you want to understand, or a growing curiosity about what it means to be human.

Your life has been developing and adapting all along, even when those changes are difficult to see. Understanding this can change how you see your experiences, your relationships, and yourself.

You are welcome to begin wherever the learning meets your life. 

 

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