Finding Balance – Gala 2013

FINDING BALANCE

GALA 2013

The theme for the 2013 Gala was “Finding Balance”. Tania Spilchen spoke of the challenges in finding balance in One! International and in our own lives.

Not all of the speech was captured by video, so I have included some initial notes before the video link.
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Ever since I was little, my mama always said – “You have to
find the balance, my dear”. As a kid, my
answer was “Yes Mom!” but then as I grew up I began to see that there was
actually some truth to this! You can’t
spend too much time on school work or you get stressed out – you have to find
the balance. You can’t eat too much and
you can’t eat too little – you have to find the balance. You can’t spend too much time having fun cuz
there are things that just need to get done – you have to find the balance. You can’t only eat healthy things because
then one day you are just going to have a craving and then you’ll go overboard
– you have to find the balance. The
examples are endless…

Working with One! over the past 13 years, I have encountered
some more great examples of the need for balance in personal life, in
professional life as well as in the life of what is One!.

Staff:

Younger staff with enthusiasm. Older staff with experience and wisdom. The
children can gain so much from both elements.

Professional staff and student helpers or aides. The
younger children see the student teachers as mentors and hope for their future.

Families:

Education vs. Income.
The families struggle with wanting their children to be educated, but
needing them to contribute to the family income.

Health Food vs. Cheap Food (evident here in Canada also) It is often cheaper to buy less nutritional
food then food that is healthy.

The rest of Tania’s speech was captured by video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLONfZmLxC0