Humans supporting Humans with Acceptance, Love, and Shared Wisdom under the Transformative Energy of the Divine Feminine.
Jaana
Jaana has a strong connection to San Francisco, where she is from, and she believes that this has shaped her ideologies for race and culture. Being surrounded by diversity as part of growing up in the city, she never realized, until she traveled to other places, that inclusion did not exist everywhere. This has also influenced her as an adult and has informed her parenting choices to become a mother to a child of a different race. This definitely ties in with Jaana’s professional life. As a teacher, she is dedicated to recognizing and honoring the sensitivity needed to understand and accept how families can contain many different cultures. Her philosophies for early childhood education are based in supporting the family unit as a whole. For her, connecting to the child and the child’s family, forming a bond and relationship with all involved, is a great way to ensure that everyone feels welcome. This translates in the classroom as a respect for each child and then, in turn, for each child to appreciate and recognize both the differences and the similarities that exist between us. all Leading by example, she hopes that this inclusive energy will follow all of her students throughout their lives, and be reflected in later relationships to themselves, others, and the Earth. Jaana’s daughter agrees, her mom’s personal philosophies and ways of life have given her a strong respect for and understanding of different cultures, different races, and diversity. Jaana and her husband have been together 21 years and married since 2001. She credits the mutually shared support and respect for each other’s personal growth as a major contributing factor to their continued success. As a woman, wife, teacher, and mother, her goal, just like the well-known quote from Ghandi, is to ‘be the change she wants to see in the world.’
