Teaching Children the Power of Kindness by Barry Lane, a TEDxCCSU Talk

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

Teaching Children the Power of Kindness by Barry Lane, a TEDxCCSU Talk

When we help children to recognize and act from their “higher self, they take pride in their good behavior and encourage others to do the same. Kindness is its own reward, not simply a way of avoiding punishment. In this talk author and singer Barry Lane shows how his songs help transform a rule bound, anti-bully school culture, into a joyful place where students act freely as individuals to create a “Force Field for Good”. That amazing troubadour of joy, hope, and song is coming back. He tells me a school without music is a prison not a school. Barry wants us to know music heals, music inspires, music matters. Most of all Barry Lane wants us to know music belongs in our public schools.

Barry Lane a TEDxCCSU Talk

Love is Truth. Kindness is freedom. Be kind to be free. In this talk author and singer Barry Lane shows how songs can create a greater degree of self-awareness that helps students and schools move past a compliance model of kindness, to one where students are encouraged to act from a place of intrinsic nobility. When we help children to recognize and act from their “higher self”, they take pride in their behavior and encourage others to do the same. Together we weave a “Force Field for Good”.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx. Songs and assembly information can be found at forcefieldforgood.com. Follow on Twitter on @barrylane.