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The Institute of the Family

'Sustaining the Mission'

The Mildred Gunawardena Foundation’s ‘Institute of the Family’  continues to sustain the Foundation's Mission by remaining active and dedicated to serving  All Aspects and/or Facets of Family Life through Continuous Holistic Education 

Service Selections   

Descriptions  

  • Support in Building and Bettering Partnerships in Marriage 

(both potential and existing)  
 

Guidance will be given to establish balanced and healthy partnerships through a journey of renewed perception, self direction and inner healing.
 

Parental support will be given to awaken parents with regard to the following facts:

The child, in his formative years is a mirror reflection of lived experience around his parents and immediate family.

Furthermore, he is a composite colored by his life experiences in society - through his growing years.

The child’s human condition, therefore, rests upon his lived and learned experience through each and every moment of his life.

A mindful parenting process, that encompasses both a scientific as well as a philosophical perspective, will be presented to all those who seek assistance in parenting.
 

  • Support in  Rearing  Children through Adulthood

Parents will receive guidance to understand the psychophysical changes that occur through the different phases of the human metamorphosis, and hence, the corresponding needs and tendencies from conception to adulthood.

 A systematic and scientific approach integrated with the most indispensable and holistic perspective:

  the exercise of freedom ~
that must revolve around choice-making with unconditional respect and responsibility toward all of life

   will be the focal point of the child rearing process through adulthood.
  
  • Support for Teenagers and Teen-Parents
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Special support and services will be rendered to teenagers who often have to succumb to parenthood and other unforeseen consequences due to a lack of philosophical guidance in their growing years.

 Parents of teenagers, in turn, will also have the opportunity to renew their parenting practices with their teenage children (if they recognize the need to receive support) by establishing better relations and understanding - from a profoundly philosophical perspective.

Assistance may be sought well in advance, almost at the threshold of teenage, so that harsh life experiences may be avoided.

 Teenagers in turn will receive preparation to understand the importance of living up to the purpose of each phase in their human metamorphosis.  This will enable them to become ‘parents with a purpose’ rather than being trapped into parenthood.

Teenagers will also receive direction with regard to their role as ‘citizens of the world’ who must bear a deep sense of unconditional responsibility.
 
  • Support for Personal Reflection on the Purpose of Life 

(for all those who seek personal solace)

A journey of self - healing and self-direction may be initiated on the part of the seeker of  solace.  The institute will offer  special guidance to each individual in recognition of his/her individual potential to receive support.  Enhancement of one’s quality of life through personal reflection is apt to generate the ripple effect of happiness to all others who share the ocean of life.
 
  • Support on Specific Child- Oriented Issues

Parents and educators who have very specific concerns with regard to an individual child may receive guidance to look upon the situation in a very child oriented sense

  with humility and compassion 

 as opposed to an adult – oriented, subjective  perspective
 

  • Support for Maintaining Equilibrium in Body Mind and Spirit

A Healthy body through balanced nutrition

Healthy mind through selective input

Healthy spirit through personal reflection
 

The Chief Administrator and Special Counselor

Mrs. Nelunika Gunawardena~Rajapakse

 Upholds a lifetime of  invaluable experience in being associated with children and parents over thirty-five years.  She is currently the administrator/principal of Bainbridge~Solon Montessori School.

 Humbled by her life’s legacy of having been mentored from her tender years under the tutelage of her highly renowned and revered mother, mentor and pioneer pedagogue

 Mrs. Mildred Gunawardena, fondly known as Mrs. G.,

(trained under Dr. Maria Montessori and
 a Fellow of the Trinity College of London, England)

Mrs. Rajapakse continues to cherish her life-dream in touching other’s lives.

   Additionally, Mrs. Nelunika Gunawardena~Rajapakse  received her formal primary training in Montessori under the world renowned Mr. Albert Max Joosten and her advanced Montessori training under her mother’s contemporary, Miss Margaret Stephenson, both of whom were trained by Dr. Montessori.

A Special Note

Mrs. Nelunika Gunawardena~Rajapakse has devoted her attention to children and parents through imparting the gift of 'learning by love', at all levels through the years.   Well grounded with holistic values from the tender moments of her early childhood, she attests to her parents’ life-gift of loving kindness and compassion to all that fall within the circle of life.  She incorporates her special parents’ vision to inculcate as well as propagate a selfless approach to life.

General Principles