Creating Beautiful Things of Their Own

The Velja Approach is about giving children and youth time,
as much time,
all the time,
they need,
all the time they want,
to create beautiful expressions of themselves.

A Critic : "Children will take advantage of such a school system to do nothing productive."
"Children need discipline and rules or else they run amok."
"Too much freedom leads to chaos."
"We need to create efficient, obedient workers, not hedonistic lollygaggers."

The secret is very simple : adults believing in their children.
Adults encouraging children to grow and become strong, because they will inherit the Earth and they need to become wise and kind in order to care for our home for future generations.

If children do not grow up happy, with no bonds of love to their world, they will not want to care for it.

The Velja Approach encourages and supports children to create beautiful expressions of themselves because doing so enables children to form special bonds with the people around them who witness the children's expression and the environment which hosts and contributes to the expression.