Posted in new paradigms, organizational development, web media on Jun 17th, 2008 No Comments »
C. Otto Scharmer speaks here of Theory U. It’s a terrific book even if it contains too many non-nutritional exhortations. Coming out of the various vectors of constructivism, integralism, and, modern adult learning theory, both Theory U. and the earlier Presence (Senge, Scharmer, et al.,) both demand and deserve attention and study.
Posted in management, new paradigms, organizational development, transformative learning on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
This is one of my favorite idea bites. I’ve truncated a long section of McSwain’s work to make it bite-sized. The paper it was taken from, A Transformational Theory of Organizations, is one of my all-time favorites. It actually served to put me on the hunt for new paradigms in organizational theorizing.
The baseline goal that […]
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 critical culture, critical thinking, new paradigms, phenomenology, philosophy, speculations on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
After borrowing Ken Wilber’s latest book,Integral Spirituality from the library, I was moved to purchase it because I had dipped into it and read the following on page 176:
The myth of the given or monological consciousness is essentially another name for phenomenology and mere empiricism in any of a hundred guises–whether regular empiricism, radical empiricism, […]
Posted in new paradigms, social psychology on Mar 19th, 2007 No Comments »
KW I’m interested in the way morphic fields might determine culture. For instance, repeating and idea with the intention of influencing overall human consciousness- if it’s thought about many times, will it have an effect?
RS You mean the more people think about something, the more it’s likely to happen? Yes. Basically, morphic fields are fields […]
Posted in a-ha!, critical culture, new paradigms on Jan 30th, 2007 No Comments »
(Terence McKenna clip) To this I would add: Culture programs you and deprograms the Four Noble Truths.
Posted in new paradigms, social psychology, urbanology on Dec 11th, 2006 No Comments »
Where The Sidewalk Ends
Behavioral psychology’s unexpected lesson for urban design
(Linda Baker)
[excerpts]
“The idea of this street is that it’s designed like a public square but it’s open to traffic,” said Ellen Vanderslice, a project manager for the Portland Department of Transportation. “We were very consciously trying to create a body language of the street that tells […]
Posted in critical thinking, folk psychology, new paradigms, psychology on Sep 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Jeezum… from the blog about stuff Integral (aka Ken Wilber et al) Mystery of Existence,
Dangers of models
In writing the aqal review of local organizations, and also talking with a friend yesterday who’s very much into integral things, I am reminded of the dangers of Spiral Dynamics, and of any map, framework or model.
As with any […]
Posted in communications, management, new paradigms, organizational development on Jul 28th, 2006 No Comments »
Patti Anklam, as is her marvelous way, weaves valuable threads leading to thought provoking places.
“Virtual” is a funny word for me right now, as I’m deep into writing Net Work, and the distinction virtual works for online communities as well as distributed communities, but there’s a difference and I’ve not yet found the right pair […]
Posted in Gregory Bateson, coherencies, consciousness, critical culture, modern views, new paradigms, philosophy, science, sociology on Jul 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Yeah, What Bateson said.
From a Batesonian perspective, it is the way we classify, make distinctions, and make sense of things that is fundamental. If it is the distinctions we ourselves make that are causes, then it is how we process information and map the territory that explains. Within this framework, any explanation or scientific activity […]
Posted in new paradigms, psychology, transformative learning on Jun 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Kazimierz Dabrowski
Lincoln as an Exemplar
We can find in Lincoln distinct presence of all the characteristics cited by Dabrowski as indications of a very high level of mental development, particularly the level of autonomous personality and secondary integration.
A self-chosen, self-confirmed and self-educating harmonious and stable organization of highly refined mental qualities —long itemization follows.
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 […]
Posted in cognitive psychology, new paradigms, outsider research on May 16th, 2006 No Comments »
“Yes, it’s a physical atrophying of the whole sensory system.”
I don’t know if the research Joseph Chilton Pearce refers to in this interview at the always mind-bending Rat Haus has been satisfactorily verified.
But, I have long wondered about the differentials in cognitive abilities that became evident to me during the period when part of […]
Posted in chaos-the-metaphor, consciousness, critical thinking, metaphysics, new paradigms, philosophy, psychology on May 1st, 2006 No Comments »
A long excerpt from a book-length Ph.D. dissertation evokes the scope of Robert Stuart Houghton’s theorizing about education. A Chaotic Paradigm: An Alternative World View of the Foundations of Educational Inquiry. It’s gist is this: there is an implicit potential able to emerge and realize substantial effects were learning to be concerned with the actual […]
Posted in experiential learning, new paradigms, self-education, tools for living, transformative learning on Mar 4th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’m presenting an ambitious series at The Lakewood Public Library,
EXPERIENCE & THE LIBRARY Personal Development & Transformative Learning in the Library
Part 1 Sat 3/4@3pm TRANSFORMATIONAL BEING AND EXPERIENCE
Part 2 Sat 3/25@3pm DYNAMIC PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
Part 3 Sat 4/15@3pm NOVEL PATHWAYS THROUGH THE LIBRARY
Part 4 Sat 5/6@3pm SERENDIPITOUS SEARCH-INTERNET APPLICATIONS
Part 5 Sat 5/27@3pm COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS-DATA DUETS
Part 6 […]
Posted in experiential learning, new paradigms, resources on Feb 26th, 2006 No Comments »
…is pairs, dichotomies, opposites, twins, binary, polarities, poles, doubles, dyads, dialog, duo, dual…
Which led me to the Pairs subset in the Twexus galleries,
Twexus pairs
Posted in charlatanry, consciousness, new paradigms, philosophy, science on Jan 21st, 2006 No Comments »
“Now this is called the “quantum measurement paradox.” It is a paradox because who are we to do this conversion? Because after all, in the materialist paradigm we don’t have any causal efficacy. We are nothing but the brain, which is made up of atoms and elementary particles. So how can a brain which is […]
Posted in adult learning, dr. puck riffs, new paradigms, psychology on Jan 11th, 2006 No Comments »
Addendum.
Might as well make a second entry to briefly identify the practical application. In my work I am not in the least bit interested in implementing any act of substitution of what works for me for what works for my Socratic associate. What matters is what works for us both given the intention to work […]
Posted in dr. puck riffs, new paradigms, philosophy, psychology on Jan 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
II.
The turn from 19th century hydraulic, “linear,” propulsive-impulsive, dramaturgical, ‘protagonistic’ (i.e. heroic) depth psychology, is a “turning into” the unframeable frame: so the move is surely post-Jungian, it develops a new order, is meta-psychological, resolves to living dynamic valences, allows a creative (sometimes dialectic,) interplay of psychological knowledge.
In this last sense, the interplay is something […]
Posted in adult learning, dr. puck riffs, new paradigms, psychology on Dec 30th, 2005 No Comments »
My personal ideational framework is held very lightly. It’s somewhat modal too; practical applications draw part of it ‘out’. “Frame” is much too rectilinear and edge-like. It’s much more like having a jazz and dance ensemble at one’s beck-and-call. Yet, I never know what today’s improv is going to be until I’m in the middle […]
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