Posted in adult learning, experiential learning on Jul 9th, 2008 No Comments »
EXPERIENTIAL MARTIAL ARTS I.
(originally published in The Lakewood Observer)
“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.” - Maurice Merleau Ponty
It is the case […]
Posted in adult learning, cognitive psychology, critical thinking, experiential learning, politics, psychology on Mar 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Hillary Clinton: “Experience not only counts, it is all that counts.”
Mrs. Clinton’s rhetoric here makes no account of an interesting division among Democrats. Barack Obama enjoys a substantial edge in that better educated, more affluent Democrats support him over Mrs. Clinton. How to account for this edge among people who are much more likely to […]
Posted in experiential learning, teaching cartoons on Aug 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Hat tip to Learning2Share;
cartoon by Ivan Brunetti;
obviously after Ernie Bushmiller; source
Posted in anthropology, community development, critical culture, experiential learning, social psychology, urbanology on May 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Lakewood Ohio’s Visionary Alignment often finds its grip on the Observation Deck of the Lakewood Observer, the city’s all volunteer community newspaper. A thread there, unfolding since May 12, Race, Courage and the Future of Lakewood exemplifies the spirit of deep inquiry that is one of the core facets of this project.
The Visionary Alignment is […]
Posted in adult learning, critical thinking, experiential learning, folk psychology, new paradigms, psychology on May 25th, 2007 No Comments »
For the past two years I have been researching with a colleague the following mouthful: informal, self-managed problem solving in dyadic interpersonal contexts. Okay? The research is informal and is driven by loosely coupled folk psychological theorizing about potentially productive heuristics. This means the theorizing is pragmatic but not formally disciplined. Although it could elaborate […]
Posted in experiential learning on May 21st, 2007 No Comments »
I went to my 35th high school reunion this weekend. I graduated in 1972 from Hawken School, having entered as a 10th grader. At the time Hawken,a private ‘prep school,’ was an all-male academy. Two years after my class graduated, women were admitted. Everything, apparently, changed!
1972 was a year in a storied era: Nixon, Nam, […]
Posted in buddhism, cognitive psychology, experiential learning, psychology on Apr 25th, 2007 No Comments »
excerpt
Human beings have a tendency to ‘live in their heads’. This phrase covers several facts. First, men have a tendency to overtheorize. Some things are ruined by too much thinking on them, things which are essentially matters of experience. What is more, almost anything can be source of immediate experience, and so almost anything is […]
Posted in adult learning, experiential learning, transformative learning on Apr 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
All encounter begins with a benediction, contained in the word ‘hello’; that ‘hello’ that all cogito, all reflection on oneself already presupposes and that would be a first transcendence.†– Emmanuel Levinas
Instant Oracle - An exercise of Experiential Martial Arts
Here’s a fun exercise you can do with your friends on a rainy day. Because the […]
Posted in a-ha!, experiential learning, love, transformative learning on Mar 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
Judith Buerkel, February 12, 1941-March 24, 2007
I’ve been privileged to be the not very good student of a succession of teachers. (This admitted, I remain surprised how much of the transmission gets through despite my own resistance!) Judith came into my life under a surprising fitting together of a corner of the jigsaw puzzle […]
Posted in experiential learning, stories, sufism on Mar 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Mullah Nasrudin had obtained a part time gig as the agricultural adviser to the village. There wasn’t much to do but answer the queries of gardeners and farmers. One man was struggling with his lawn and, so, one day he knocked on Nasrudin’s door.
“My lawn is beautiful except for the pesky dandelions!”
Nasrudin stroked his beard […]
Posted in adult learning, deep play, experiential learning, libraries, play, squareone tools on Dec 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
from The Shifted Librarian.
Hot Books is a game designed to bring life back into libraries by forcing players to explore, discover and share the deserted and unexplored spaces that make up a library.
See also:
Jane McGonigal’s Avant-Game
Hot Books at NYPL
Sometime in the next month or so I will summarize the extraordinary seven installments of a […]
Posted in adult learning, experiential learning on Dec 13th, 2006 No Comments »
“You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, disbelief. Free your mind.†Morpheus (The Matrix)
Creating a mastermind is one of the fastest ways to get what you want. Our world is too complex to achieve much of anything by ourselves. Nearly all of our knowledge comes from outside ourselves.
Plus, when two people and […]
Posted in current events, experiential learning, politics, teaching cartoons on Oct 27th, 2006 No Comments »
From a tale of the Mulla Nasruddin, I visualize the real political problem.
Posted in adult learning, communications, consciousness, experiential learning, relationships, social psychology, spirituality, transformative learning on Oct 15th, 2006 3 Comments »
I’m very curious about the process through which people really get to know each other. And, just as fascinated by the processes through which people fool themselves into believing they are getting to really know one other. There is overlap between the former and the latter kinds of processes. Some people are very good at […]
Posted in adult learning, creativity, experiential learning, process theories on Oct 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
Dave Snowden refashions the affectual component of the transformative learning model for the sake of innovation.
I have long argued that there are three necessary, but not sufficient conditions for innovation to take place. These are:
1. Starvation of familiar resource, forcing you to find new approaches, doing things in a different way;
2. Pressure that forces […]
Posted in anthropology, experiential learning on Jul 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Eshu Elegba tale discovered at Tim Boucher’s Pop Occulture
Eshu was walking down the road one day, wearing a hat that was red on one side and blue on the other. Sometime after he departed, the villagers who had seen him began arguing about whether the stranger’s hat was blue or red. The villagers on one […]
Posted in deep play, experiential learning on Jul 19th, 2006 No Comments »
In my trolling for items of interest, I happened upon a terrific resource, the web site of Yannis Karaliotas. He’s an explorer and scholar with very similar affinities to my own. His paper, “The Element of Play in Learning” is among the many keepers at his site. The subtitle to the paper is “The Role […]
Posted in experiential learning, humor, teaching cartoons on Jun 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
Saying from Idries Shah found on Katinka Hasselink’s site. Comic generated at the very fine COM MIX site.
Posted in adult learning, experiential learning, spirituality, sufism on Jun 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
I added the emphasis in the following clipping. …food for reflection. I’ll follow up with a teaching cartoon shortly.
Excerpt. The Wisdom of Sufic Humor, Idries Shah; originally published in Human Nature; April 1978
Sufis see many traditional prayers and processes, today more familiar than ever to most Westerners, as relics of specific, scripted, and measured formulas […]
Posted in experiential learning, music, new paradigms, transformative learning on May 31st, 2006 No Comments »
The first presentation in the Music and Experience series, KALAHARI ORIGINS, takes place Thursday, June 1st at 7:00pm in the Main Auditorium of Lakewood Public Library. (15425 Detroit, Lakewood, Ohio) The program’s are focused on a deeply appreciative encounter aimed to go beyond mere ‘musical appreciation’.
KALAHARI ORIGINS is about the folkloric music of the […]
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