I was at a gig the other evening in which the Kennedys & Edwina Hayes were playing. In introducing one of the songs, Maura Kennedy explained how he had a first degree in history, and Masters in folk music. The learning about ‘folk’ had come from inside – mainly through playing with other great musicians (Nanci Griffiths was the haunting…
Roman Krznaric is a cultural thinker and writer on the art of living. He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, which offers instruction and inspiration on the important questions of everyday life, and advises organisations including Oxfam and the United Nations on using empathy and conversation to create social change. He has developed the concept of outrospection – the…
In the Skilled Facilitator Field Book, there is a discussion of a ‘unilateral control model’ which describes a default position in the process of learning – where a growing sense of being outside one’s ‘comfort zone’ leads to defaulting to a set of strategies which are sub-optimal (in creating the conditions for learning) but optimal in maintaining control of a…
Over the past few years, we have been involved in innovation projects where a wide range of players have been learning about how to change things in their local context, and then periodically joining together with one another in a learning community, to amplify and exchange learning. In the setting of this learning system-of-systems, one of the things on which…
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