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by | November 17, 2010 · 4:02 pm

Soul In Buffalo November 18, 19, 20

Charles Olson

Charles Olson Teaching Spirals

A three-day free conference will celebrate and explore Charles Olson’s legacy and extension through A Curriculum of the Soul, a series of poetic essays published as fascicles by Albert Glover and John C. (Jack) Clarke.

Riffs, Research and Resistance

With Albert Glover, Daniel Zimmerman, Michael Bylebyl, David Tirrell, Michael Boughn, B. Cass Clarke, Victor Coleman, Steve McCaffery, Stephen Baraban, John Roche, Andre Spears, Joen Napora, Stephen Ellis, Alan Casline and Kenneth Warren.

Nov. 18 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Poetry Room at UB, 420 Capen Hall

Nov. 19 & 20 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 453 Porter Ave.

squareONE toolmakers, as in yours truly, will be providing the tool Hunting and Gathering and using it to go playing with gods–in an experiential playing, and digging, and reaching, for soul; as the last event on Saturday. (See below)

Schedule – Soul In Buffalo

Thursday November 18 – Poetry Room at UB – 420 Capen Hall

11 – 11:40 A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL: AN INTRODUCTION – Albert Glover

11:40 – 12:00 A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL: AN ACCOUNT – B. Cass Clarke

12:00 – 12:45 THE COST BENEFIT RATIO: AN INQUIRY – Albert Glover,
Pat Glover, and B. Cass Clarke. Moderated by Alan Casline

12:45 – 1 Break

1 – 1:20 WHAT IS A SOUL AND WHY MIGHT IT NEED A CURRICULUM – Michael Boughn

1:20 – 2:00 IN THE OFFING – Daniel Zimmerman

2:00 – 2:40 PERSON AND TEXT: A CONVERSATION – Michael Boughn, Daniel
Zimmerman, Michael Bylebyl and Victor Colman. Moderated by John Roche.

3:00 – 3:10 POETRY IN FATHAR – David Tirrell

3:10 – 4:00 READING FROM A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL – Albert Glover,
Daniel Zimmerman, Michael Bylebyl, David Tirrell, Michael Boughn

Friday November 19 – Karpeles Manuscript Museum – 453 Porter Avenue

11 – 11:30 THE MUSHROOM – Albert Glover

11:30 -12 ROOTDRINKER RESONANCE – Alan Casline

12 – 12:30 – JACK CLARKE”S HOMEWORK – Charles Palau

12:30 – 1:00 WRITING THE CUR(S)E: THE MISSING PROJECT IN PROJECTIVE
VERSE – Joe Napora

1:00 – 1:30 Break

1:30 – 2:00 BRITISH SOUL AND ITS CURRICULUM(S): NOTES ON OLSON AT
KENT – André Spears

2:00 – 2:30 A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL: JOHN THORPE – Stephen Ellis

2:30 – 3:00 NATURE AS SCRIPT – John Martone

3 – 3:30 OLSON, MAYAN, ETHNOPOETICS, LANGUAGE SYSTEMS AND SAINT
AUGUSTINE – Steve McCaffery

3:30 – 4:00 OPEN SPACE DISCUSSION – Steve Tills

Saturday November 20 – Karpeles Manuscript Museum – 453 Porter Avenue

11 – 11:30 WHAT’S UP IN A NUMBER, 23 SKIDOO, AND GERRIT LANSING’S
ANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY – Robert Podgurski

11:30 -12:00 BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND TA’WIL: ROBERT CREELEY, JACK CLARKE
AND POETICS IN BUFFALO AFTER OLSON – Kenneth Warren

12:00 – 12:30 JACK BE NIMBLE: ON JACK CLARKE’S GLOUCESTER TRANSLATIONS
– Stephen Baraban

12:30 – 1:00 DUNCAN AND JOEL, THE ECOLOGY OF THE SOUL – David Landrey

1:00 -1:30 Break

1:30 – 2:00 ONE HERO: APOLLONIUS OF TYANA – IMPLICATIONS FOR THE
SOUL: A CONVERSATION – Kitty Jospé

2:00 – 3:30 PLAYING WITH THE GODS: A MOMENT FOR EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
IN A CURRICULUM OF THE SOUL – Stephen Calhoun

3:30 – 4:00 OPEN SPACE MUSIC WRAP-UP – Kevin Doyle

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by | December 7, 2009 · 3:29 pm

Future Directions

Future Directions & a Linkroll Bloodbath

The squareONE web site, of which the Explorations is a kind of adjunct publication, is to be redesigned around WordPress in early 2010. (Actually I’m right now reconfiguring the layout to incorporate various WP loops so as to utilize the CMS potential of WordPress.) This will likely impact the blog’s direction.

Meanwhile, I ran the linkroll through a link-checker and the results were initially disturbing, later–not surprising. About 50% of the links have perished. Again, it’s very likely the linkroll will shrink to its key category, Friends & Like-minded. Adult Learning, Psychology, and Anthropology will migrate to the regular web site. I’ve already sopped updating the Transformative Tools blog; it will migrate too. Rhythm River will migrate and be integrated. Leaving only my studio blog, nogutsglorystudios.

After this “re-structuring” is ready for prime time, I’ll be working on the Transformative Anthropology video. Hopefully, some new initiatives will come to fruition too.

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by | January 18, 2009 · 4:46 pm

WHY ARE WE HAPPENING TOGETHER RIGHT NOW?r

Sitting at the local coffee shop, waiting for a business partner to arrive so that we could discuss a project, I decided to kill time by opening my laptop to check my email. In my email was a post from a friend and in his email was a link to a youtube video of a Congolese musician.

A few minutes into the video, I feel a gentle tap on my shoulder. A stranger interrupts me to ask about the video I’m watching and listening to on ear buds. This person saw the video playing on my screen from their spot at an adjacent table.
As it turns out the stranger is interested in the african dancers that are part of the video. Inviting the stranger to join me, I share a replay of the video with her.

We strike up a conversation. It ranges over our shared interest in music and the arts. After telling her I have collected a wide variety of music resources over many years, she mentions that she is an artist for whom music and dance is a key source of inspiration. We set up a future engagement to audition media resources and to continue getting to know each other. Perhaps we will become friends.

In fact, a friendship develops and it eventually alters the course of both of our lives. There will come a time when both the once-a-stranger, and myself, having become colleagues and having undertaken together and separately further life changing projects, travels, and learning, realize almost all of what unfolded was contingent upon the pivot provided by the original encounter in the coffee shop.

What would you, the researcher have to know to determine what was necessary to have happened in the lives of both parties to this encounter in the coffee shop prior to its occurrence, so as to guarantee its occurrence?
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by | January 12, 2009 · 6:07 am

YEAR OF THE OX

In two weeks the Chinese calendar will flip to The Year of the Ox. What a fine archetype–of sorts–for our world of trouble, a world where carrying the burden and ox-like tenacity might realize ‘heavy duty’ changes. The ox in the ten Ox herding stages transforms from the regenerate instinctual beast to the white beast of burden. The latter is patient and a hard worker, is tamed and able to channel its wild instinct into the task at hand, err, at hoof.

Here on explorations I have drafts to fine tune. For example I’ll be taking up the interesting fact of integral research which occurs outside the hermetic confines of the Wilberian in-group. two different transformational learning tools are close to being baked in the squareONE oven. One of them requires video documentation and so my readers can expect moving pictures.

Stay tuned.

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by | December 19, 2008 · 1:25 pm

RHYTHM RIVER PROMO

The Rhythm River pages are up at squareONE. I made a quickee montage to promote this latest tool; albeit the development unfolded over twenty years.

[flashvideo filename=http://squareone-learning.com/video/RhythmRiver2.flv /]

Music is Kayyam, from my 2002 recording In Khorasan. It can be streamed in its entirety over at nogutsnoglory studios, at the bottom of the world hed music page.

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by | November 27, 2008 · 4:39 pm

PLAY OF OPPOSITES-DEMO

The first beta test of videographing a squareONE tool process. I recorded demonstrations of Grab Bag and Play of Opposites. Thanks to my brother and his camera. (I’ve got my eye on a Canon HV20 to be purchased after the first of the year. I’ll also use it to tape a new tool I’m developing that uses an interview process and is oriented around conversational learning.
[flashvideo filename=http://squareone-learning.com/video/Opposites_demo.flv /]
A single take…

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by | November 20, 2008 · 1:05 pm

GRAB BAG

My brother and his family came to visit and I finally remembered to ask him to bring his camcorder. He did so and we were able to ‘beta test’ my concept for documenting demonstrations of squareONE experiential learning tools. He and I went to no lengths at all to make this slick. The video of Grab Bag is literally one single take filled with lots of flaws. Still, the test was a success and so I’ll soon be shooting more measured video.

[flashvideo filename=http://squareone-learning.com/video/GrabBag_demo.flv /]

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by | December 23, 2006 · 6:12 am

PLAYING IN THE LIBRARY

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 workshop given earlier this year at Lakewood Public Library. Also, I will reconfigure the web resource from Lakewood’s web site, and attach it to the squareONE web site.

The series was initiated to prove the concept:

Transformative learning is an aspect of adult education and experiential learning. In the modern library the lack of formality, the encouragement of do-it-yourself investigation, and the breadth of library resources aptly fits with initiatives oriented around informal learning leveraged through active, experiential engagement in and with the library and its resources.

In the conventional sense of self-directed learning about a subject of interest, a library presents an array of resources a learner uses to investigate and learn about this subject.

However, when the subject is one’s self, the hallmark of learning is learning through which this “subject” activates a process of discovery and testing and change. Such initiatives are ultimately emancipatory, and expressly the goal of this type of learning is self-knowledge and advances in personal capability.

The concept was proved. (Hat tip to Alana, who attended every session, and also to Fred and Ken.) In fact, the series was a high point of my own game-making career. One of the neat realizations shared with participants, aggrandizing as it may be, was that our collaboration and innovative use of the library, had never happened in this way ever before in any library. We all were groundbreakers in experiential learning in the environs of the great Lakewood Public Library.

Rather than decide between cognitive, somatic and phenomenal modes of experiential learning, the conceptual underpinning of transformative learning utilized for the programs at Lakewood Public Library integrates the three modalities and terms this integration: Integrated Learning.*

Integrated diagram

Integrated learning joins experience of relatedness to features and phenomena of the world (including other persons,) plus one’s spontaneous perceptions plus reflective conceptualizations about these experiences. It’s aim can be a: test of learning; discovery of further possibilities for investigation; or insights powerful enough to cause transformative effects.

[Lakewood Public Library Transformative Learning Portal]
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(* Integral Learning’s conceptual framework with respect to its cognitive aspect is closely related to the learning models of David A. Kolb, et.al., and Jack Mezirow. With respect to the phenomenal (world-situated) aspect it is indebted to the work of Paulo Freire. Whereas its somatic aspect emerges from a variety of models and theorization in the interdisciplinary realm of embodied learning, etc.)

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by | August 21, 2006 · 5:17 am

Teaching Cartoon: Company Time

Teaching Cartoons is a concept for a workshop. It’s easy to describe. Participants learn how teaching stories used in spiritual traditions, such as Sufism and Buddhism, may be translated into cartoon form. Then, after being appraised of some of the constituent tropes, operations and procedures utilized in these forms of teaching, they are also revealed to be commonly available in many kinds of contemporary cartoons.

We’ll get into this as, every month, new cartoons are posted. One of the convenient capabilities of the internet is the addition of cartoon-building web sites that make the creation of cartoons simple and ‘open source’.

Nasruddin - Company Time

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