http://innovationforthecommongood.com/archives/310 Innovation for the Common Good Blog by Collective Invention Inc. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://innovationforthecommongood.com/archives/310/comment-page-1#comment-8 Malika Starr Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:28:45 +0000 http://innovationforthecommongood.com/?p=310#comment-8 How cool that you facilitated such a dynamic experience/process. Thanks for sharing it here. Jack Mezirow, who did extensive study/writing on the Transformative Learning Theory stated that "learning is the process of using a prior interpretation to construe a new or revised interpretation of the meaning of one's experience in order to guide future action....Our need to understand our experiences is perhaps our most distinctively human attribute. We have to understand them in order to know how to act effectively." "Transformation theory provides a description of the dynamics of the way adults learn to negotiate meanings, purposes and values critically, reflectively and rationally instead of passively accepting the social realities defined by others." (or the past) And the great John Dewey stated, "Only when things about us have meaning for us, only when they signify consequences that can be reached by using them in certain ways, is any such thing as intentional, deliberate control of them possible." How great that leaders convened to make meaning of current actions that will have future consequences, so that with intentional, deliberate actions now and in the future those consequences can be guided, perhaps even controlled. I applaud your work! How cool that you facilitated such a dynamic experience/process. Thanks for sharing it here. Jack Mezirow, who did extensive study/writing on the Transformative Learning Theory stated that “learning is the process of using a prior interpretation to construe a new or revised interpretation of the meaning of one’s experience in order to guide future action….Our need to understand our experiences is perhaps our most distinctively human attribute. We have to understand them in order to know how to act effectively.” “Transformation theory provides a description of the dynamics of the way adults learn to negotiate meanings, purposes and values critically, reflectively and rationally instead of passively accepting the social realities defined by others.” (or the past)
And the great John Dewey stated, “Only when things about us have meaning for us, only when they signify consequences that can be reached by using them in certain ways, is any such thing as intentional, deliberate control of them possible.”
How great that leaders convened to make meaning of current actions that will have future consequences, so that with intentional, deliberate actions now and in the future those consequences can be guided, perhaps even controlled.
I applaud your work!

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