Hey guys,
As you can see from the following passage, this goes well beyond just reading.
"Here is another example. There was a child in my class who had for a long time been under the impression of having been a victim of bullying. During one lesson we were speed reading a blank book that was given the theme of something that you are worried about. We often have interesting themes centered on rare insects of the world or about personal stories but it so happened that one of the students' mothers was sick so we decided on this subject theme. Young I.M. decided on a title, 'My bullying' and then started flipping through the blank pages of the book.
Because there are so many children doing this lesson together it is hard to check the results one by one. At the beginning I was thus not aware of I.M.'s misfortune. I suddenly realized that he seemed to be drooping his head and was totally silent. I thought this was strange and asked him what was wrong. He replied, 'I'm going to apologize to my friend tomorrow.' But since it was very strange for him to be apologizing for having been the victim of a bully I asked him, 'Why apologize?' His reply was, 'I thought that I hated (him) for being bullied but I had said something really nasty to him before it all started.'
In a word young I.M. had gone and deeply hurt his friend and was now wondering why he had said such things to bully him. He then realized that he was to blame in the matter. This led him to understanding he would have to apologize the next day and say, 'It was my fault.' Because falling outs are emotional problems even though we may understand them logically, it is very hard for us to become really humble in dealing with them. However in doing QSR we are not just simply looking at images or understanding things but dealing with right brain perceptions. Deep emotions and feelings of consideration for others tend to ooze out of these (perceptions). These profound sentiments are then able to be humbly accepted. It goes without saying that the bullying problem of this particular child ended on that day. We normally focused on the results of which book's images were seen, or what colors emerged as we continued in our lessons. But after having done this for many years it became more obvious that that the children's facial expressions were becoming brighter and brighter. I can only conclude that there must be some stimulation of the most intrinsic levels of these children's consciousness that is happening."
From what I've seen so far, this program is extremely right brain oriented, dealing with only gathering images from text. It looks interesting, but quite frankly, not something I would do.
This is what I've gotten so far, if I come across anything else of use I'll try posting that, too.
-JackTuff13
