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Category Archives: experiential learning
Surprise Yourself
Kathy described this mind map and I found it out in the wild. Collaborations can lead to interesting incidental paths. Kathy turned me on to Dr. Chris Seeley‘s view of the artful organization. She added her own very highest regard. … Continue reading
Free Play Growth Ring
I started playing Free Play Softball League in 2002. At the time, the game was co-ed to the magnitude of six female players, Alice, Laine, Angie, Amy, Linda, Mary. By 2009, the attrition of female players had reached its “negative … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, experiential learning, play, psychology
Tagged Freeplay Softball
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Teaching Cartoon: If It feels Good, Then What?
“For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, experiential learning, psychology, Religion, self-knowledge
Tagged teaching cartoons
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Cycling
The four panel valence differentiator of Boston Consulting Group fame, (or what I term the four square matrix,) and the circular cycle used to show both a linear course of change and a completed course of development, are both the … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, education, experiential learning, my research, psychology, self-knowledge
Tagged learning cycles
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Collaboration & Serendipity
I. FORTUITY [f. L. fortu‹imacbreve›t-us, f. forte by chance, f. fors chance + -ous.] That happens or is produced by fortune or chance; accidental, casual. OED Between 2005-2012, when I was researching serendipity as a decisive aspect of adult development, … Continue reading
Live From the Well
The idea that what one has long held of a person is apt to stop one’s eyes and ears. —Marcel Proust Elders from GLEN MILNER on Vimeo. The self is a metaphor. We can decide to limit it to our … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, creative captures, experiential learning, my research, psychology, self-knowledge, sufism
Tagged friendship, relationship, Rumi
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Instructed
Sol LeWitt 1928-2007 bonus:
Posted in art, artists, creative captures, experiential learning, visual story
Tagged conceptual art, Sol LeWitt
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Sound and Sense
Music of the Spheres from Emic Films on Vimeo. I say we are obviously as nature around us is. So that is also how our music is. But then our music must also be as we are (if two magnitudes … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, creative captures, experiential learning, music, psychology, science, sufism
Tagged cosmology, deep listening, sound
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Sitting On a Porch, but not any porch
Dave Kolb and I enjoyed the longest conversation we ever managed to conduct over the fifteen years we’ve been friends and something like, but not really exactly like, colleagues. Our shared interest is the experiential learning theory* he helped conceptualize … Continue reading
Posted in adult learning, experiential learning, friends, my research, psychology
Tagged "Alice Kolb", David A. Kolb, ELT, theorizing learning
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Six days I stray, on number seven I try to be a little better
Here And Now by Ella Wheeler Wilcox Here, in the heart of the world, Here, in the noise and the din, Here, where our spirits were hurled To battle with sorrow and sin, This is the place and the spot … Continue reading
Visual Thinking Strategy
A VTS Discussion with First Grade Students from Visual Thinking Strategies on Vimeo. (source) In his 1997 article Thoughts on Visual Literacy, Philip Yenawine describes visual literacy as: “…the ability to find meaning in imagery. It involves a set of … Continue reading
Posted in art, artists, experiential learning, my research, psychology
Tagged constructivism, Visual Thinking Strategy
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As If, a yoga of the practice of irony in a cosmos of contingency
A leading moral and political philosopher, Kwame Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. He explores the ideas of the philosopher Hans Vahinger, who argued that our theories of the world involved understanding things “as … Continue reading
Opening Day, Free Play Softball League 2017
Opening Day, Free Play Softball League 2017, first game in the age of Trumpism. It was a closely contested game if you forget the results of the first and last inning. This season we’re hoping to attract new players to … Continue reading
Three Into Four, Repeat. . .
The shuttling to and fro of arguments and affects represents the transcendent function of opposites. The confrontation of the two positions generates a tension charged with energy and creates a living, third thing—not a logical stillbirth in accordance with the … Continue reading
Posted in analytic(al) psychology, creative captures, experiential learning, psychology, self-knowledge
Tagged four, soul, three, transcendent function, unity
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Synchronicity and Wheels
Monday, February 13, I was driving to Wadsworth, listening to a CD, thinking about my livelihood as an artist–such as it is–and a tune started up from my single most favored rock record of all time, The Gilded Palace of … Continue reading
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Tagged synchronicity
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Pure Experience
What is left of experience if from it are erased feeling it, thinking it, feeling about it, thinking about it? I’ve been reflecting on the paradox of mindfulness. Mindfulness, over the last several years, is among the hottest trends in … Continue reading
A Myth of Isolation and a Fairy Tale of Causation
The notion of the individual entity having agency is confused by a paradox. The confusion lies with the idea of individuation. The entity (organism, person, or organization) is bound to its unique perspective or epistemology, and in that sense is … Continue reading
Stirring Together, In the Midst of the Unending Stream
I traced a circle on the ground, It was a mystic figure strange Wherein I thought there would abound Mute symbols adequate of change, And complex formulas of Law, Which is the jaws of Change’s maw. My simpler thoughts in … Continue reading
A Magic Trick: Explain By Creating
In trickster’s case, how did mental fakery come to replace incarnate fakery? It is one thing for trypanosomes to change their skins; another for Raven to become a leaf floating in spring water; another still for storytellers to have imagined … Continue reading