{"id":7908,"date":"2018-05-16T13:30:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.potentialplusuk.org\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2024-04-18T10:14:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T09:14:52","slug":"labyrinths-for-all-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potentialplusuk.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/16\/labyrinths-for-all-learners\/","title":{"rendered":"Labyrinths For All Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bring calm and focus to every learning area with a labyrinth. Use ‘lateral thinking’ skills to tailor a journey for a High Learning Potential (HLP) child.<\/p>\n

For centuries, labyrinthine wisdom has been used in many cultures as a tool for focus, meditation and prayer. Today, this wisdom can be combined with modern Thinking Skills into a fun educational project, ‘down-time’ discussion or hands-on activity. Whatever an HLP child’s natural areas of academic strength, they can discover a path that soothes and de-clutters their hectic mind.<\/p>\n

\"A Discussion – Is a Labyrinth a Maze? <\/strong>
\nDiscuss labyrinths; can your child define one? Is it a maze? As always, you may well be intrigued by the HLP thought process! One girl (11) commented that \u201cIn a labyrinth you have to be focused and actually choose to stay on the winding path, but in a maze you can get stuck; there are dead ends and you can’t see your choices…unless I suppose the walls were made of glass…\u201d<\/em>!
\nIn essence, she is right. You can get lost in a maze, but a labyrinth is a complicated, meandering single walkway. You reach a centre, a moment of insight, then return.
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\nAt a museum, with books or on the internet (e.g. http:\/\/www.labyrinthos.net<\/a> or https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/roman-mosaics-4144960<\/a>):<\/p>\n