Conscience: Hearing the Inner Voice

In this session, children are introduced to their own conscience as an inner voice that can guide them to make choices that affect goodness and justice. The quote that opens this session comes from Kindness: A Treasury of Buddhist Wisdom for Children and Parents by Sarah Conover (Boston: Skinner House, 2010). Through creative engagement children explore times in which they listened to their inner voice and acted on their conscience. They will also explore why it is sometimes hard to hear or follow our conscience.

Take Home:

Today we explored what it means to listen to your inner voice and how that can help guide them to different choices.

Play a game: Try a spin on Marco Polo but instead of having one player guide the other in a direction, have one player act as the inner voice and the other play make decisions based on what the inner voice is saying. Create a common goal before the game.

Check it out: Session 2