在英国做特殊教育

 演讲人： Linda Thomas 

根据讲座写下的英文笔记：张筱叶 翻译：吴蓓 

琳达（Linda）在南非长大，现住在德国，她是一位专业清洁工，已经有20多年的经验。她出版过一本关于清洁的书。她有一个清洁工作团队，受邀到世界各地做清洁和举办工作坊。 

清洁不是清洁过去，而是为新的未来创造一个空间。 

琳达开始做清洁工，起源于她想挣钱送2个孩子上华德福学校。做了一段时间后，她感受到做清洁工的身份危机，人们对清洁工比较冷漠，有些人看见她就像没有看见似的。她觉得自己一定要生发对清洁工作的喜爱，因为她要坚持做到孩子从学校毕业。 琳达思索怎样才能产生对清洁的热爱。她回忆起小时候和家人住在南非的时光，那时她不需要做家务，家里有保姆。后来，琳达的爷爷去世，妈妈叫她和妹妹每天为奶奶铺床，安慰奶奶。琳达记得妈妈教他们怎样叠毯子，还要把枕头拿到窗外，在阳光下轻轻拍打，把悲伤和眼泪拍走，再把枕头放回原处，对着枕头说几句祈祷词。这样奶奶躺下时就会感到很舒服。她想起做这些事情的时候，心里有一种神圣感。她想再次体会到当年的专注和挚爱。但直到几个月后，她才开始真正热爱清洁工作。 

 琳达的女儿在幼儿园里，一天轮到她负责女儿班级的清洁。当她第一次走进卫生间，第一次看见那小小的马桶，她感到被马桶打动了，她个子很高，于是她就跪在地上清洁马桶。她似乎看到她的女儿和其他孩子们使用卫生间，突然，她感受到清洁过程充满着爱，现在她真正理解了清洁的意义。 大多数情况，我们为别人做清洁，即便我们在为自己清洁的时候，当有客人来访时，我们清洁得最起劲。清洁一个空间，是对房间里住的人的关心和体贴。干净、整洁的房间会产生很不同的效果，敏感的人会感觉到的，因此，清洁是关心他人的不可分割的一部分。对于特殊需要人来说，这点尤其重要，他们对周围环境比正常人更加敏感。 

 琳达的朋友玛莉在康复村（Camphill）工作，一位特殊需要人托马斯住在她朋友负责的楼里已经有20年了，她总是把托马斯的房间保持得非常干净、清新。当托马斯搬到另一个楼里住后，他很快就生病了，而且病得很重。玛莉去看望他，心里感到很难过。他的房间非常脏，床也很久没有整理过。他不能说话，这栋楼的负责人不了解他的需要。玛莉感到托马斯有些事情萦绕心中，在等待回应。玛莉去找负责人，作为托马斯的老朋友，请求容许她做些什么。得到容许后，玛莉把所有的家具搬出去，把房间做了彻底、仔细的打扫，然后，把托马斯放进浴缸里洗澡，为他换了干净的床单、被套、枕头套。在干净的房间里，他躺在整洁舒适的床上，不久去世了。 

还有其它的几个例子。一次，琳达去康复村做清洁，当她来到一个房间，见到一位狂躁的特殊需要人彼得，2位工作人员要成天陪伴他，他们告诉琳达，彼得已经有两个晚上没有睡了。琳达站在房间里仔细打量周围，很快她感觉到有一种很强的抵抗力，她在床底下发现了厚厚的灰尘，这是一种很奇怪的灰尘，毛茸茸的，感觉好像还在移动。她仔细打扫了整个房间，还跪在地上打扫床底下，随着清洁接近尾声，她感到房间的阻力在衰减。正当她打扫完毕，退到门口时，突然听到一声大吼，只见彼得摆脱2位工作人员，向房间奔跑过来，边跑还边脱衣服和鞋子，进入房间越过琳达，倒在床上立刻就睡着了。他一动不动，连续睡了22个小时。当房间被打扫干净，变得舒适，特殊需要人甚至从屋外就能感觉到。 

还有一次，琳达用了6个小时的时间清洁一个卫生间，直到阻力消失，当那位行为问题很严重的特殊需要人用上了干净的卫生间后，他的行为问题大大改善了，但可以这样的改变只持续了十天，因为琳达不可能长期在那里为他打扫，而对环境的关怀和清洁是需要不断去做的。 

在康复村举办的一次培训中，那天琳达只有空清洁卫生间里的两个隔间,所有的特殊需要人都在这2个干净卫生隔间前面排成长队，没有人愿意使用没有打扫过的卫生间。 

医院邀请琳达去做清洁，她得到珍贵的经验。第一天她仔细打扫干净的房间，第二天她再去看时，地上和桌子上铺满灰尘，好像她昨天没有打扫过似的，她觉得很奇怪。她仔细观察后发现灰尘来自房间里的病人。生病的人会产生大量的灰尘。她非常用心的观察灰尘，发现每个房间里的灰尘很不同，而相同疾病的人产生的灰尘是一样的。如果某天房间里的灰尘突然增加了，通常这个房间里的病人那天就会过世。濒临死亡的人产生的灰尘最重。一次琳达打扫一位妇女的房间，发现灰尘非常特别，三个月后，这位妇女被诊断出得了严重的疾病。在出现疾病的症状前，灰尘可以显示出你的健康状况。 当你走进一个房间准备打扫时，首先你应该站在门口观察整个空间，和它交流，看看哪里最需要清洁。要和房间里的元素精灵（the elemental beings）一起工作，它们最了解房间的需要。元素精灵到处都有，天使对于我们，就像我们对于元素精灵，我们要引导它们、帮助它们去营造一个和谐的空间。 

 大多数人打扫卫生时很马虎，他们擦桌子，却忘记擦桌子的侧面。当他们打扫地板时，他们没有把手指伸进角落里清洁。没有完成的任何事情在世上都会产生后果，由于你的懒惰而没有做完的事情会阻碍你，你将遭受它的后果，直到你重新做完。 

在一次演讲后，一位妇女邀请琳达清洁她的房间，妇人说她的房间糟糕透了，不知道怎么办。当琳达走进她的房间，看见桌子上有一大堆的东西，东西堆得太高了，有些物品掉在地板上。琳达感觉到有某种东西受阻了。琳达问妇人这堆东西的最下面是什么，妇人哭了起来，她说几周前她的妈妈去世，她和姐妹之间发生了严重的遗产纠纷。在这堆东西的下面是一封关于遗产纠纷的信，她没有勇气回答。琳达把信拉出来，请妇人立即回答信中的问题。经过很长时间的来来回回的挣扎，妇人回答了信中的问题，琳达请她把信寄出去，当她回来时，整个面容焕然一新，耽搁的事情处理完了。 

琳达的一位朋友有个盲童，朋友花了一天的时间把儿子的房间打扫干净，当儿子从学校回来，一进房间马上就感觉到了，他说：“房间好高啊！” 当孩子生病了，妈妈首先应该为孩子整理出干净舒适的床铺。 

 做好清洁意味着你要把心思集中在做的事情上，而不是边做边听音乐或胡思乱想。通常人们做事情的时候，心思不在上面。比如打开抽屉，关起来的时候却不关紧，关门的时候发出很大的响声，把东西用完后不放回原位。你要意识到你在做的事情。 

还有，人们应该学会尊重和照顾好已经拥有的东西，而不要去买新的东西。我们需要和我们的所有物建立真正的关系。 

 斯坦纳在一次演讲中提到，我们获得的智慧提升星芒体（Astral body），投身于工作会提升生命体（也有人翻译为以太体Etheric body），生活中的自信会改善我们的身体。 

讲座时间：2011年5月18日 

想发个日记说两句“题外话”，最近工作挺紧的，大家都绷着劲儿特别容易吵架，九点完事儿后根本没心境去翻译或读书，偶尔去练练琴。上次其实发了篇新日记，但是大家都看不到，因为违反了什么傻B网站管理条例，一篇英文也扰乱社会安定了，咱网络清洁工素质越来越高了。

其实想要翻译的东西还是不少，可惜平时的工作就已经是满负荷了。我比较懒散，不爱回复留言什么的，也不在乎访问量，我只想做想做的事情，积累一些资料，也许能够帮助到别人，也许日后能够作为研究资料。

以上。

  两周前去听了一个关于打扫卫生的讲座，回来凭记忆记得笔记，暂时没时间翻译成中文。

18 May 2011

On Cleaning

Talk by Linda Thomas

Xiaoye Zhang

Linda grow up in South Africa and now lives in Germany, she has been a professtional cleaner for more then 20 years and has published a book about cleaning, she has a team to work with her to clean and give workshops about cleaning aroud the world.

Cleaning is not about clean up the past, it’s about creating a space for the future to come.

Linda started her cleaning career because she had to earn money to support her two children to go to Steiner school. She had a identity crisis since people tend to be indifferent towards cleaners, she want to love what she is doing because she has a long way to go until her children finish from school.

She start to think how to love cleaning, and she recalled a chilhood memory. When she was still in South Africa with her family, she didn’t need to do any house work because they had servents,. And then Linda’s grandpa died, Linda’s mother asker Linda and her sisters to make the bed for their grandma every day to comfort grandma. Linda remembered her mother tought them how to fold the blanket properly and to take the pillow out of the window, shake and pat it gently so that all the tears and sorrow would go away, and then put the pillow back to the bed and say a little prayer to it, so when grandma lay her head down she could feel comforted. She now remembered how sacret that felt when she was a child and she want to felt that devotion and love again. But it wasn’t until months later that Linda really become loving about cleaning.

One day it was Linda ‘s turn to help to clean her children’s classroom in their kindergarden. When she went in to their bathroom for the first time, and saw those little toilets for the first time, she felt so moved by them, she went on her knee to clean them since Linda is very tall, and then she felt as if she can see her children and other children, suddenly she felt the love in her action of cleaning and felt she really understood cleaning now.

Most of the time we clean for others, even if we are just cleaning for ourselves we clean the best when there are visitors. Cleaning a space is caring for the person that stays in that space, a clean and cared room makes a big difference and sensitive people can feel it very strongly, so cleaning is an indispensible part of caring for others. This is especially important when it comes to caring for special needs people as they are more sensitive then others towards their surrondings.

One of Linda’s friend is a house coordinator in a camphill community, one of the resident in her house has been with her for twenty years, she always kept his room very clean and fresh, and then he moved to another house and soon become very ill. The friend went to visit him in the other house and felt very sad, his room is very dusty and the bed is not freshly made, the resident can not talk and the coordinator in this house does not know his needs. The friend felt that he had some thing on his mind and is waiting for a answer, so she went to the house coordinator to ask for the permission to do something for him as an old friend. She then went to his room and pulled all the furnitures out and cleaned his room very thoroughly, then she put him in the bath and made a very fresh bed for him. So he laid down in the fresh bed in the clean room, and passed away in peace very soon.

There are several other examples here. Once Linda went to a camphill to do cleaning, when she got to one of the houses to clean, there was a very agitated student, two coworkers had to be with him all day long, they said that he had difficultis in sleeping and hadn’t slept for two nights. So Linda when in his room and had a good look around, as soon as she was in the room she felt a strong resistance, and she dicovered lots of dust under the sudent’s bed, it was a very strange dust, fluffy and almost felt like its moving. She cleaned the whole room and went on her knees to clean under the bed, she felt the resistance is slowly fading away as she came to the end of dusing, just when she finished cleaning she heard a huge shouting outside and saw that student got away from the two coworkers and run into the house, he took his cloth and shoes off as he run into his room, jumped over Linda and slipped into the dovet and fall asleep immediately. He slept for 22 hours without moving. When the space is cleared and comforted they can feel it even from outside of the house.

The other time Linda spend 6 hours in one bathroom until the resistance is gone, and when the student that uses that bathroom came back she changed her behavior in the bathroom for ten days.  Care needs to be cared for and be kept up,. The other time she cleaned in a camphill village during a seminar, she only had the time to clean two cubicles in the bathroom that day, and so all the villagers qued up in front of the two cleaned ones and no body wants to use the other ones.

Linda had a rare experience when she was invited to clean in a hospital, she cleaned the rooms on the first day thoroughly but when she got there the next day there were visible dust again on the floor and table as if she didn’t clean yesterday, she fond it very stange, and as she observed more she realized it was because the ill people in the rooms, when people are ill they create much more dust. She looked into the dust very carefully and fond that the dust in every room is very different, but people with the same disease create the same kind of dust. If one day the dust in one room increased suddenly, normally that patient would pass away on that day, when people are dying the dust they create is the heaviest. Linda once cleaned in a women’s house and fond the dust there very perculiar, three month later the women was diagonised with a serious disease, the dust tells your health even before the symtons.

When you enter a room you are going to clean, first you should stand at the door and observe the space, communicate with it to see where it needs to be cleaned the most, and work with the elemental beings rather than destroy them as they know the most what the room needs. Elemental being are every where, angels to us is us to the elemental beings, we need to guide them and help them to create a hormonised space.

When people are doing cleaning, many people does it very roughly, when they clean the table they forgot to clean the edges, when they clean the floor they don’t put there fingers into the corners, but everything undone has consequnces to the earth, the things that you are too lazy to complete is blocked and you will have to suffer the consequences until you finally undone the blocking.

After one of her lecures Linda was invited by a women to help her clean her house, the women said that her house is in a very bad state, she did not know what to do with it. When Linda entered her room, she saw a huge pile of things on her table, the pile was so tall that some of the things fall on to the floor. Linda sensed something was blocked here, so she asked the women what is it at the bottom of the pile, then the women started to cry. She told Linda that her mother died few weeks ago and she is having a big fight with her sister over the property their mother left behind. At the bottom of the pile was a letter concerning the dispute that she did not have the courage to answer. Linda pulled the letter out and asked her to anwer the letter right now. After a long time of walking back and forth anxiously, the women replied the letter, Linda asked her to go and send the letter, and when she came back her whole face was changed, the undone had resolved now.

A friend of Linda has a blind boy, one day the friend spend the whole day cleaned his room, when he came back from school, he sense the difference immediately when he entered his room, he said: “It’s so high here”

When a child is ill the first thing the mother should do is to make a clean bed for the child.

Good cleaning means that you need to put your mind on what you are doing rather than listen to music or thinking of random stuff, people do not put their mind to the things they are doing right at the moment, that’s why when they open a draw they don't close it properly, when they shut a door they make a huge noise, when they take stuff away they do not put them back to the place, you need to be conscious of the movement you make.

What’s more, people should learn to respect and take good care for the things they already have rather then buying or building new things, we need to make a real connection with our possesion.

Steiner mentioned in one of his lectures that to develop our Astral body we need to gain wisdom; to develop our Etheric(?) body we need devotion in working, to develop our physical body we need to have confidence in life.

我们的任务是帮助学生走向成年生活，所以我们自己对成年本质的认识十分重要。成年人能够在一个设定的权利与义务的框架中独立运用常识和合理的假设。在过去（甚至现在）社会认为某些人没有能力实现人们对成年人的期待，他们的权益常常是缺失的，社会并不将他们看待为真正的成年人。如此的社会评判是不公正，不合理的，它否决了个人的发展潜能，将易受伤害与无能混为一谈。同时这一看法恰恰增加了他们受伤害的可能性，因为它使社会把他们看做不如普通人有价值的人，在各个方面都很少关注或考虑他们，包括如何保护他们不受虐待。我们将学生们看待为新兴的成年人，我们在以下价值观上帮助他们加强向成年生活的过渡：

个人与尊严

隐私—最小干扰程度的教育方式

自觉与独立

自我满足和选择

虐待的形式：

身体虐待——刻意使对方产生疼痛，受苦或受伤

情感或心理虐待——刻意使对方心理遭受创伤

性虐待——在对方不自愿或不理解的情况下强迫其参与性行为

财务虐待——肆意使用对方的私人财产

机构性虐待——机构中的人员集体同意或默认一虐待行为

被虐待的表现：

瘀伤或伤痕：突然并重复的出现

削瘦

行为方式的变化：退缩，焦虑，不安

睡眠发生变化或进食模式发生变化

抑郁，自尊心的减弱

个人物品的丢失

个人卫生情况糟糕

忽视的定义

任何对特殊需要人有责任或负责照料他们的人没有向他们必需和适当的照顾称为忽视，换句话说就是看见了却不提供相应的帮助。

忽视的种类

缺乏个人照顾

食物，住宿，冷暖和衣着的缺失

医治或医疗干预的缺失

生活环境肮脏，不适

将他人局限或隔离在房间里

禁止他们会见朋友，亲人或有社会交往

将他们暴露在不健康和危险的环境中

(翻译整理自The Mount Co-worker Orientation)

学生的挑战性行为小到无视你，拒绝你，大到叫嚷，推挤甚至暴力相对。当极端的不良行为发生后，可以参照以下一些措施：

Reparation—让此学生进行体力活动，如打扫房间

隔离—当干扰或欺负他人的情况发生时，将此学生从集体活动中分开。

反省—给予额外的个人空间和隐私。

对学生的身体限制只能由受过相关培训的co-worker用来防止学生自我伤害或伤害他人时实施，实施身体限制必须在不造成任何伤害的前提下有分寸的进行。如果情况并不是那么紧迫请不要对学生进行身体限制。

Co-workers在面对和处理这类情况时应该时刻保持清醒和自控，合理运用常识和直觉。

以下措施不应被使用：

任何形式的身体惩罚

禁止进食或饮水

限制或禁止学生与父母的见面

要求学生穿着特殊服装

使服用或禁止服用药品或治疗

将学生锁在屋内，即使有他人陪伴也不可行

有意识的剥削学生睡眠时间

罚款

近身搜查

(翻译整理自The Mount Co-worker Orientation)