In this episode, I speak to a true community leader ! Ivone Apolonario is not an online community celebrity but a grass root, local leader who has taken it upon herself to change the future of her country with a simple step: by educating children in a different way! Ivone Apoilinario is the co-founder of O Mundo Somo Nos, an alternative educational system in Northen Portugal, to inspire the next generation and their parents to be themselves and do better for the whole community and eventually the world.
In this episode, I speak to a true community leader ! Ivone Apolonario is not an online community celebrity but a grass root, local leader who has taken it upon herself to change the future of her country with a simple step: by educating children in a different way! Ivone Apoilinario is the co-founder of O Mundo Somo Nos, an alternative educational system in Northen Portugal, to inspire the next generation and their parents to be themselves and do better for the whole community and eventually the world.
Ivone is also the current coordinator of the Learning Center of the association O MUNDO SOMOS NÓS as well as president of the association's board. Despite her degree in International Relations, and having studied Management, she has a growing interest in adult and children education that led her to study several areas such as Natural Medicine (Macrobiotics and Zen-Shiatsu), Yoga, Humanized Childbirth and Pre-Education. She works for the school to create educational material related to food, health, natural lifestyle and parenting to support the parents as well as the children enrolled in the school. She committed herself to researching various educational approaches, including those of J. Krishnamurti, the main inspiration at the heart of the project, attending various training courses and visiting schools in England, Spain and Portugal. In 2017 she attended, in Sweden, the Family-Lab International “Seminar Leader and Parental Coaching” training, founded by the innovative Danish pedagogue Jesper Juul.
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