We need to stop subscribing to traditional, outdated schooling and attitudes about conventional education and instead engage in authentic learning for psychological health and wellbeing, balance, to preserve our shared humanity, and prepare for a radically different future. Q. How should we be educating people for the future? What should we study? Some answers:Continue reading “Know Thyself & Save the World”
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Tools FOR Inner Landscape Learning
I write a lot about how we need to encourage young people to travel the inner landscape FOR learning. Here’s one way (Vipassana/meditation) And another way: And, of course, my favourite way:
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Podcast: The Value of Silent Meditation with Allen Gaskell
ITunes Podcast: 006: The Value of Silent Meditation with Allen Gaskell “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone” — Blaise Pascal One of my goals with the Landscapes for Learning project is to draw more attention to the need for an explicitly taught wisdom curriculum for highContinue reading “Podcast: The Value of Silent Meditation with Allen Gaskell”
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Teaching & Learning About the Places That Scare You
The following quotes are taken from The Places That Scare Us by Pema Chodron where she describes the exploration of the inner landscape that I believe is sorely needed as part of kids’ education more than ever before: “We’re encouraged to meditate every day, even for a short time, in order to cultivate this steadfastness withContinue reading “Teaching & Learning About the Places That Scare You”
