complexity as opportunity
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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.TRANSCRIPT
COMPLEXITY
May 2011
TransformativeLearning
as an Opportunity for
Sylvia Gaffney, Ph.D. Bernice Moore, Ph.D.&
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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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