“find your place on the planet. dig in, and take responsibility from there.” ― gary snyder
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I enjoy Gary Snyder‘s poetry and essays, which has a Zen-like view of humans and their relationship with the world. It does not exist out there as if some mysterious wilderness we travel to. Instead, the objective and subjective worlds speak to each other through our senses.
In arguing we do not live outside of the objective world, John Dewey contended humans “live in community in virtue of the things they have in common.” My view is the community includes all sentient and non-sentient beings.
When we think of ourselves as living in community with all beings, animate and inanimate, we find our place in the world, dig in, and assume responsiblity for that piece of the world and our actions.
When we think, speak, and act responsibly, we become leaders who act as stewards, serving future generations in concrete and ethical ways. We grow mindful and attentive to a world we inhabit intimately and communicate with it on a moment-to-moment basis. It is real, existing inside and outside of us simultaneously.
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In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope and its anticipatory relationship with the future, and hope as an essential element in learning.
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Our egos are what separate us. The invention of “I” gives us specific identities, thus separateness.
Mindfully, the Buddhist say we are connected to all things, animate and inanimate, as we travel in harmony on this planet.
As Jill Bolte Taylor described in the shower, after having a stroke which shut down her left hemisphere ( cognitive engine, ego), I can not tell where the wall begins and my arm ends.
We are one with all,things, connected.
I think one of my professors at Gonzaga mentioned the Taylor anecdote. In Western culture, it takes something traumatic to allow to see the world as moving fluidly through our senses and skin. As you say Marty, when we let go of our identities we become one with the world and it resides within us and outside of us at the same time.
very true and wise.
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ARE YOU DIGGING IN, YET?????
I am geting close. I hope to have my writing done in about a week.
ORT-ORT-ORT-! 🙂