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, 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 teaching cartoons, transformative learning on Apr 6th, 2007 No Comments »
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Commentary: the last quotation of the late genius of improvisation has wider applications.
Posted in buddhism, transformative learning on Apr 5th, 2007 No Comments »
The students in the monastery were in total awe of the elder monk, not because he was strict, but because nothing ever seemed to upset or ruffle him. So they found him a bit unearthly and even frightening. One day they decided to put him to a test. A bunch of them very quietly hid […]
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 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 Arthur Young, anthropology, outsider research, philosophy, resources, science, transformative learning on Aug 17th, 2006 No Comments »
Arthur M. Young wrote two little read albeit influential and (to me) essential books, both published in 1976: The Geometry of Meaning and The Reflexive Universe. Along with the alchemical writings of C.G.Jung, they are the most important contemporary books about quaternity and ‘anthropo’ process. Young/Jung’s research inform SQ1’s model of exploratory learning; this is […]
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 adult learning, education, experiential learning, transformative learning on May 5th, 2006 No Comments »
At Lifecircles there is a small amount of excellent material. From a paper by Sunny Cooper, Transformational Learning. Sunny’s Learning Theory Map remains one of the few summaries a web surfer can get to easily.
Appendix A. Instructor Characteristics and Roles Which Facilitate Transformational Learning
1. Encourage students to reflect on and share their feelings and thoughts […]
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 buddhism, humor, resources, transformative learning on Sep 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
A monk asked Kegon, “How does an enlightened one return to the ordinary world?” Kegon replied, “A broken mirror never reflects again; fallen flowers never go back to the old branches.”
Zen joke from: Lighter Side of Zen Buddhism:
Q: What did one Zen practitioner give to another for his/her birthday?
A: Nothing.
Q: What did the birthday boy/girl […]
Posted in deep play, experiential learning, new paradigms, transformative learning on Jul 30th, 2005 No Comments »
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. -Plato
Found on a page about: The Healing Carnival
The Healing Carnival is becoming: an evolutionary game, a multimedia arts ensemble an epic conspiracy, a garden of earthly delights, a sowing of seeds of harmony a new way […]
Posted in adult learning, experiential learning, transformative learning on May 25th, 2005 No Comments »
David A. Kolb, Patricia J. Jensen, and Ann C. Baker have published an excellent abstract about their recent book Conversational Learning. (Editor of the abstract: Yoshi Takeda.) The book is important. When you think about it, any dialogical exchange brings together the kinds of difference and interaction between personal fields which can evoke learning through […]
Posted in adult learning, critical culture, experiential learning, transformative learning on Apr 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
A Prelude to the Manifesto for Education in the Age of Technology by Robin Martin December 1997 The first half of this manifesto is an attempt to come to terms with some of the not-so-positive trends emerging within technology and society, with a focus on education in particular. Then, in the second half, I’ve […]
Posted in adult learning, creativity, deep play, experiential learning, new paradigms, outsider research, spirituality, transformative learning on Mar 19th, 2005 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 […]
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