BUILDING LEADERSHIP

So much of what I do is based on what I know  or  what  I think I know. How I think things should be, because I have either seen it or heard about it. Regardless, I want to make the ‘right’ decisions at all times. Why? I want to be perfect.   I want to be able to say ‘I got that right the first time’ ! I wonder if I ever get anything right the first time. I wish I understood this idea of reaching, wanting ‘perfection’ earlier. I might have avoided a lot of conflicts, disappoi

When we started the course in 2011, it was designed for teachers and classrooms. Its meaning and value has gone through considerable change over the 15 years. Going by the feedback received about what they got from the course, it looks like it could be for anyone. To narrow that audience (which sounds like the whole world), I know that when we are in class, I build a context for whatever is taught around 2 things whenever I present an idea – Group work / Community and Relati

Facilitators bring themselves into the environments they facilitate in. We don't just deliver content. We deliver ourselves!

How a student ‘feels’, affects learning. This feeling aspect is not about agreeableness or disagreeableness of the subject being studied....

In a moment to myself, a strange thought waded through my mind - “Most conversations we are part of are about things that are not working...

A friend told me this story and then asked me a question. “ I was on an outdoor program, and the design involved taking a dozen teenagers...

“For centuries we have been conditioned by nationality, caste, class, tradition, religion, language, education, literature, art, custom,...

I have dilly-dallied considerably over writing a piece on the C that stands for Consciousness. In everything I have been doing since, I...

Over the past month or more, i have had many experiences (2 x DEEP, 2 Raccoon Circles) of trying to help others understand and...

The first question I am often asked by people who are hearing the term for the first time is “What is Experiential Education”? For a long...

This is one principle that has caused many practitioners to respond with quizzical looks when you explain it. Rightly so. We all...