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COMPLEXITY May 2011 Transformative Learning as an Opportunity for Sylvia Gaffney, Ph.D. Bernice Moore, Ph.D. & 1 Monday, October 17, 2011
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Greater complexity affects all of us, and when we add some new skills, we are able to transform to meet the challenges of complexity with ease and confidence.
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COMPLEXITY
May 2011
TransformativeLearning
as an Opportunity for
Sylvia Gaffney, Ph.D. Bernice Moore, Ph.D.&
1Monday, October 17, 2011
TODAY’S✴ Interactive & fast-paced with mini-lectures &
practical experiences woven throughout
✴ Understand theoretical framework & relationship to transformative learning
✴ Explore complexity
✴ Discuss role of mindfulness & neuroscience
✴ Experience mindfulness practices
Session
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✴ Acceleration of change
✴ Global shifts & changing markets
✴ Evolving technology & breakthrough science research
✴ Massive amounts of & sources for information Complexity
is Stressful
COMPLEXITYas the Driver
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✴ Less mechanistic to more systemic
✴ Rapid & unpredictable
✴ Changes & complexity causing STRESS
✴ Opposite of required critical skill sets
✴ Different kind of leader needed
FUNDAMENTALChanges
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EVERYTHINGComplexis Increasingly
✴ Disconnect between meaning structures & our complex world
✴ Causing disorienting dilemmas
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✴ Transform through the trigger
✴ Shift & expand meaning schemes
OPPORTUNITYComplexityBecause of Increasing
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✴ Developing the WHOLE person
Mind - Body - Spirit✴ Concept not new in TL thinking
✴ Mindfulness research
✴ Advances in brain science
TRANSFORMATIONNeeded
The
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✴ Effects of complexity in & on your life
✴ Organizing complexity
DO
‣ How hard is it to describe?
‣ What does it take to create it?
‣ Who needs to be involved to make it happen?
Debrief&
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COMPLEXITY
✴ Our research !ndings
‣ Some organizations invite & engage with complexity
✴ IBM study !ndings
‣ Creativity & innovation is a way to lean into & work with
orDive Thrive
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MINDFULNESS
Moment-to-moment awareness cultivatedby paying attention to things we usually ignore
Jon Kabat-ZinnMind-Body-Spirit experience of wholeness
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✴ Attention to the Present Moment (both inside & out)
✴ Breath Work
✴ Yoga
✴ Silence
✴ Contemplation
✴ Meditation
✴ Tai Chi
✴ QiGong
MINDFULNESSMany Ways to Practice
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MINDFULNESSThe Process of
✴ Attention
✴ Awareness
✴ Concentration
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MAGNIFICENTBrain
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✴ Working with & changing our brain
✴ Creating new connections
‣ Neuroplasticity
✴ Responding more adaptively
KEYSTONE
Body &
Being
to our
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✴ Brain stem
✴ Limbic area
✴ Cortex
TRIUNEBrain
Danie l Siegel , M.D.adapted from the book Mindsight by
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✴Neurons, dendrites, synapses - creating new connections as we learn
✴Mirror neurons - our ability to viscerally connect with another person
PATHWAYSNew Neural
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✴ Least known organ of body
✴ Breakthrough advances in brain research
✴ Brain & Body interconnected
✴ Neuroscience Research legitimizes practice in business
MYSTERIOUSBrain
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✴ Paying attention inside & out
✴ Simple exercises to reduce stress
‣ Intentional & visible
‣ Intentional & NOT noticeable
✴ Relax & Breathe
EXPERIENCELeaning In
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✴ Questions
✴ Comments
✴ Connections
THOUGHTSSharing Your
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SMILEPulling in a
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I honor the place in youwhere the universe resides
a place of peacea place of joya place of truth
When you are thereI am there
We are One
NAMASTE
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Sylvia Gaffney, Ph.D.
LEARNING with UsThank you for the honor of
Bernice Moore, Ph.D.
[email protected] [email protected]
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RESOURCESReferences&
Cozolino, L. (2006). The neuroscience of human relationships: Attachment and the developing social brain. New York: Norton.
Dirkx, J. M., Mezirow, J., & Cranton, P. (2006). Musings and re!ections on the meaning, context, and process of transformative learning: A dialogue between John. M. Dirkx and Jack Mezirow. Journal of transformative education (4)123, 123-139.
IBM Corporation (2010). Capitalizing on complexity: Insights from the global chief executive of"cer study:
an IBM study. Somers, N.Y.: IBM Global Business Services.
Kabat-Zinn, J. (2005). Full catastrophe living: Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness (2nd ed.). New York: Delacort Press.
Langer, E.J. & Moldoveanu, M. (2000). The construct of mindfulness. The journal of social issues, (56)1, 1-9. Retrieved EBSCO Host, April 12, 2011.
Mezirow, J. (1991). Transformative dimensions of adult learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Siegel, D. (2010). Mindsight: The new science of personal transformation. New York: Bantam.23
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