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VIII. The power of VESS
When we work to create balanced individuals who lead lives of purpose, individuals that
focus their energy on accomplishing these purposes, individuals who know themselves but are
aware of others and their value, individuals who see the whole picture and its parts as well, and
individuals who use their skills wisely to add value to the situations they face, we live and create
a VESS culture!
With this in mind, we also live and create a VESS culture when we truly realize that these
individuals are real, and that infants also teach us. They teach us to change the perspective we
have of the world and the way we behave in our companies to generate more ethical, fair, free,
and sustainable practices.
VESS creates a culture of thinking not only in classrooms but that is transferred to the
corridors, offices, homes, and community.
VESS pertains to each one of the agents and generates change in their actions, attitudes
towards life and relationships with others. Over the past six years, we have focused on observing
each one of the agents, interviewing them and tracking their actions to determine the impact that
this educational model, or better said, life model, has had on them. Different surveys, our
observations, and anecdotes that parents bring from their homes have shown:
Children
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Acquire tools for life
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Potentiate their dimensions of development
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Increase understanding of concepts
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Passion for learning
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Learning dispositions
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Habits of mind
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Empathy