| A Manifesto for Righting the World! - more>> |
 We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibres connect us with our fellow-men, and along those fibres, as sympathetic friends, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. Herman Melville
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| Authentic Education Conference News - more>> |
 When I started talking about authentic education in the September Authentic Business newsletter, it started a small storm. When I talked some more about it in the October edition the energy racked up a notch. I am now seriously at work to create a highly authentic, authentic education conference. Here is an extension to the thoughts from the October newsletter together with some requests to help get the ball rolling, if you can help please let me know.
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| Terriffic Tantrums - more>> |
Change will probably come from the next generation, from our children, who hopefully will grow up with more enlightened views of the world, society and each other. David looks at the positive side of toddler tantrums and how we can learn from them. |
| Teaching support - more>> |
One of the goals beyond Authentic Business is Authentic Education. How we educate our children is what defines the future for humanity; we can have no greater legacy. And if our children are to have any hope of paying back what we have "borrowed" from the natural capital of this planet then we had better make sure we do it properly. Patrick Nash is the inspiring Chief Executive of the Teacher Support Network and he is doing something about the future of education right now. Here is a speech he made to the Club of Geneve in October 2003. |
| To Tell The Truth - more>> |
As children we are often told not to lie but we are seldom taught how to tell the truth. Not only that but most of the role models we have from teachers, parents, TV and politicians are around dishonesty. |
| Smilechild - An inspiring tale of how one woman set up her own company while bringing up four small children - more>> |
"Business is a bit like being a parent really, the good times always eclipse the bad" |
| Rehumanizing education - from authoritarian to arthurian - more>> |
An illustrated talk by Alan Rayner
Very different perceptions of reality arise from immersed and detached perspectives, epitomized by the naive outlook of a child and the rational down look of an adult. These differences can produce fundamental incongruities in patterns of relationship with one another and our living space that bring rule-based objective judgement of 'right and wrong' behaviour into sharp conflict with natural subjective exploration and response. In turn, this conflict severely limits our human creative potential and sets the scene for abuse and long-lasting social, psychological and environmental damage. Such abuse and damage can, however, be avoided, and our creative potential released, through an 'inclusional' way of seeing, which brings the immersed contextual view from inside-out into holographic rapport with informed discernment from outside-in. This way of seeing leads naturally away from authoritarian styles of instruction based purely on precise transmission of expert knowledge, to 'Arthurian' styles of facilitated dialogue within 'Round Tables' or 'Sharing Circles' structured so as bring together, respect and learn from diverse contextual perspectives.
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