- Book 4&5 Element 3
- "There is nothing quite so practical as a theory" - Kurt Lewin.
- Learning/Unlearning
- Engaged Models
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Action Learning
- Think, question & Listens:
- What's going well?
- What's challenging?
- Long-term vision/goals
- Next achievable steps?
- Social collaborative/flexible intelligence
- Dissolve individualism
- Empowerment
- Reduces hierarchy/reliance on experts
- Increase eco social world change community
- Ask:'how could I get more fluent at that' and 'what gets in the way"?
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Other action based approaches
- Action Research
- Participatory Action Research
- Praxis Intervention
- Action Inquiry
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Kolb model for experiential learning
- Activist
- Reflector
- Pragmatist
- Theorist
- Infinite capacity to develop skills in all modalities.
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Kolb Hooks
- CE: Concrete Experience-Doing
- RO:Reflective Observation-Doing&critique
- AC:Abstract Conceptualization-Abstract ideas into solid use
- AE:Active Experimentation-Try idea out
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Theory U framework
- Downloading-past patterns
- Suspending
- Seeing-with fresh eyes
- Sensing-from the feild
- Letting go
- Presencing-connecting to source
- Letting come
- Crystalizing- vision & intention
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Own Un/learning transition
- Cognitive dissonance
- Strong feelings
- Support systems needed
- Conscious
- Unconscious
- Double loop (Investigate)
- Re-Evaluation counseling (Investigate/find local group)
- Theory U (Try it out)
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Eco-Social Un/learning
- Seeing/clearing off the Patrix
- Politically neutral and easy to co-opt
- Applied permaculture ethics
- Liberation from oppression (as receiver/giver)
- Transformative learning
- Espoused theory/theory in action
- Theory U
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Me
- Articulate my models/process of unlearning
- Sense emergence
- My Ethics
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Using Gaia U books
- Revisit
- Test for validity&plausibility
- Shed?
- Useful?
- Invalid & still useful (Miasma?)
- Exercise useful yeild of incorrect theory
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Theory U
- Process of Transition
- Articulate model/theories of learning
- Compare & Contrast
- Inner transition>Outer transition
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Gaia U Pedagogy
- Create new culture & shared language
- Congruent with Permaculture ethics
- Congruent in educational field/Show legitimacy
- Theory/Action- highly congruent
- Basis of complex, adaptive and potent ecosystem
- Refresh, add, & shed