Developing Intelligence and skills for Life
Looking at the human being in its entirety, supporting the development of its full potential, igniting its inner spark, and helping it to become the best version of itself.Comprehensive development is a necessary step in education and an urgent response to changes in the current world and what it demands of the new generations. This work presents an innovative and practical vision that will allow the reader to understand what development of an integrated personality truly means, the one that includes all the faculties and dimensions of the human being in an organized and sequential process. Until now, the theories raised some aspects of that development seeking the integration in adding parts, but here the structures and mechanisms that are at the base of a comprehensive development are presented, with their interactions and how they are integrated throughout the evolutionary process in the various stages. It also describes the details and characteristics of the process and how that human being is built, how their potentials are revealed, how bases and foundations are laid that allow and give rise to the integration of other increasingly complex processes until they form a complete, balanced personality, with resources to act in the world. To achieve this, tools and activities are also necessary that can support this integrated and inclusive development step by step. Only by understanding the integral human being, the aspects that constitute it and the stages with its characteristics and needs, will we be able to take a step forward in education and achieve that long-awaited and sought-after comprehensive development of the personality. The second part of the book presents a practical guide of activities that can help each of the aspects and potentials that are part of this comprehensive development of personality and that anyone with an interest in helping children who grow up can apply efficiently. The author, Ana Maria Vargas studied Psychology, worked as a university professor and internship director in educational psychology, and after an extensive search for personal growth, working on educational projects and with alternative techniques, develops a methodology for comprehensive development that It is now applied with surprising results in more than 12 countries and 3 continents. After more than 30 years of experience, study and research on the subject of human development and seeking how to understand and achieve a comprehensive approach, the author presents here her life's work; an approach never seen before on development of personality, the understanding of all the dimensions of the human being interconnected in an evolutionary process that goes through its stages of maturation describing with great skill, with everyday examples and in a language available to all. The world and the experience of the child, the adolescent and the young person during their development and offering activities and techniques that are easy to apply in the family or at school. Undoubtedly a useful work for all those who as people who want to be seen and understood in a comprehensive way, an essential manual for psychologists, educators, parents who try to support a comprehensive development of an integrated personality for the education of new generations and the discovery of the pieces that were missing, of the common thread that unites and integrates the human being
