OPENING HEARTS
Fourth International SEAL Conference in Argentina - February 15-16-17, 2002

Verónica de Andrés

Director and founder of SEAL Argentina (Society for Effective Affective Learning), and SEAL representative in Argentina. Member of the Executive Board of the International Council for Self-Esteem (US) and Co-director of Wings Educational Consultancy, Verónica promotes with passion the self-esteem movement; she has presented widely in Argentina as well as internationally.

Her latest development is a Self-Esteem Whole School Training Programme both in English and in Spanish.

Verónica holds the degree of Master of Arts in Education with distinction from Oxford Brookes University.

Focus On Love!

As Albert Einstein said, we are either full of fear or full of love. Love and fear, two paradigms and one choice: to see the world through the eyes of fear or... love. If love is what we really want, if love is what we really are, why is it that more often than not we choose fear? Because we are afraid of love!

Love is the total absence of fear. Love is letting go of fear. Love asks no questions. It is a natural state of expansion, without comparison or measurement.

This plenary session is an invitation to see what can happen us when we choose to focus on love!

Love made the Conference happen.
Love made your presence possible.
Love used the tears in our soul
To paint rainbows in our hearts.

Love made your presence possible
In the midst of those dark nights
To paint rainbows in our hearts.
And we saw the starry skies.

In the midst of those dark nights
Your presence made me feel alive.
And I saw the starry skies
Reflected in your shining light.