Fall 2015 Calendar

This Fall, Ethics For Children offers

Several FREE FAMILY FESTIVALS open to the public including:

• HAPPY BONES FESTIVAL AND ZOMBIE YOGA
• GRATITUDE & GENEROSITY FESTIVAL
• INTERGENERATIONAL SOLSTICE PLATFORM

AND 
Fall season project of Ethical Study:

• "Ethical Treasure Chests with Valuable Values," 

Winter season project, 2016

•  "Peace Tool Kits to Build Peaceful Lives"

For updated info about our programming for families, please always check
www.YoungEthicalExplorers.blogspot.com.

WEEKLY CALENDAR:

September 20th 

11am  Ethical Explorers celebrate International Peace Day

12:30 Lunch with the Ethical Community

1:30 pm  Teen Deed Club celebrates International Peace Day

September 27th, 11 am:  "The Castle of the Mind"

October 4th, 11am: Welcoming for Baby Phoenix with his dear mommy Athena

Oct. 11th, NO ETHICS FOR CHILDREN, due to long weekend

Oct. 18th, 11am: "Mind's Treasure Chest for Valuable Values"

Oct. 25th, 11am: "Valuable Values Sparkling Through Actions"= DEED


November 1, 11am:  HAPPY BONES FESTIVAL -- Special Event
FREE and OPEN TO PUBLIC (parents are welcome to attend) with RSVP (EthicsForChildren@NYSEC.org)
A fun spinoff of Dia De Los Muertos where children dance with our skeletons, decorate skull-cookies and celebrate ancestry.  
AND 
1:30 ZOMBIE YOGA EVENT for tweens and teens and family members who wish to join in.
FREE and OPEN TO PUBLIC with RSVP (EthicsForTeens@NYSEC.org)
Bring warm loose clothes -- zombie styles are acceptable!  Join a Zombie Circle to enter total relaxation, known in yoga as "corpse pose." Arrive as a zombie, but leave with your energy restored and your humanity invigorated!  

November 6th-8th: REGISTER IN ADVANCE for Ethical Families Retreat in Stoney Point! NO session at NYSEC.  Field trip for Sunday may be planned by those who cannot come for the whole weekend.

November 15th, 11am: "Taming My Inner Dragon As It Protects My Valuable Values"

November 22nd, 11am:  GRATITUDE AND GENEROSITY FESTIVAL FREE and  OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

November 29th, No session due to Thanksgiving

December 6th, 11am:  "Ruling the Castle of my MIND"

December 13th, 11am:  "Visiting one another's Castles of Mindfulness."

December 20th, 11am: INTERGENERATIONAL SOLSTICE EVENT

Winter Break.
We resume with a new season in January 10, 2016.
with the theme:  PEACE TOOL KITS:

• "If I had a Hammer -- Making our Peace Tool Kit"
• "Martin Luther King's Peace Tool Kit"
• "The Lock and Key for My Peace Tool Kit"
• "Building Peace with Communication TOOLS"

Other Special Dates to note and promote:

Adult Workshop:  Ethical Grand-parenting, Step-Parenting and ParentingLeader Anne Klaeysen is offering this unique opportunity 

Thursdays, September 10 & 24, AND October 8 & 22.

Sept 25-27  NYSEC Retreat (see NYSEC's website for details)

November  13-15, The 2015 YES Conference will be in St. Louis, Missouri 

Please RSVP at EthicsForChildren@NYSEC.com to attend these wonderful experiences.  Visitors are welcome to try out the programming for a free session at any time, with RSVP.  You may wish to try out a season with us.  Cost should never stop you, so please ask for scholarship if necessary.  Otherwise, a contribution of $100 per season per family is suggested. Ethics For Children is free of cost for members' children, and Ethics For Teens is free to all teens with RSVP.  NYSEC Ethical Membership is available for families to explore through dialogue with  NYSEC Leader Anne Klaeysen.  Please feel free to ask for help arranging to meet her. 

NYSEC's Ethics for Children generally meets 11am-12:30, on Sundays.

It coincides with NYSEC's morning meetings for the larger Ethical Community.

The whole community arrives on the 4th floor.  Children parade out together after Opening Words and a Gathering Song.  Pick up takes place on the 5th floor or on the playground.

All families are invited to join the community for Lunch in the Cafeteria.

Children and teens always eat for free, as do first time visitors.  Others may make a contribution.