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- | *** transdisciplinary facilitation** | + | |
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- | *** exhibitions and expeditions** | + | * **exhibitions and expeditions** |
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- | *** reality challenging psychological sydromes** | + | |
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Material was also collected through through reviewing literature from the transformational learning field, from management deveopment, from anthropological books and from fictional novels. These are listed in the references section. | Material was also collected through through reviewing literature from the transformational learning field, from management deveopment, from anthropological books and from fictional novels. These are listed in the references section. | ||
- | === The next section will summarise findings from all of these activities and discuss future implications and areas for further research | + | **The next section will summarise findings from all of these activities and discuss future implications and areas for further research** |
==== Discussion ==== | ==== Discussion ==== | ||
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These shifts from seperate to connected forms of knowing are co related with shifts in consciousness and increases in our meta-cognitive capacity. | These shifts from seperate to connected forms of knowing are co related with shifts in consciousness and increases in our meta-cognitive capacity. | ||
- | A summary of key points from the research are: | + | **A summary of key points from the research are:** |
* Transformation is often is associated with shifts in consciousness and developmental evolution, which allows individuals to have a greater sense of epistemological choice and awareness, and often a deeper connection to spirit and sense of meaning in their lives. | * Transformation is often is associated with shifts in consciousness and developmental evolution, which allows individuals to have a greater sense of epistemological choice and awareness, and often a deeper connection to spirit and sense of meaning in their lives. | ||
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These methods fall into a wide range of tools and categories of artefact and experience that are interrelated and are deeply connected with the archetypical spirit of the Trickster: | These methods fall into a wide range of tools and categories of artefact and experience that are interrelated and are deeply connected with the archetypical spirit of the Trickster: | ||
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* hybrids that evade categorisation by existing mental models | * hybrids that evade categorisation by existing mental models | ||
* activities that blur the dichotomies of right and wrong, true and false, real and unreal | * activities that blur the dichotomies of right and wrong, true and false, real and unreal | ||
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The following discussion moves through these areas in turn first examining transformation, | The following discussion moves through these areas in turn first examining transformation, | ||
- | ==== What is transformation? | + | == What is transformation? |
In examining the literature it is clear that transformation means different things to different people. | In examining the literature it is clear that transformation means different things to different people. | ||
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The Online Oxford Dictionary gives two descriptions of the word perspective: | The Online Oxford Dictionary gives two descriptions of the word perspective: | ||
- | a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view (The Oxford Dictionary of English, 2005). | + | - a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view |
- | the appearance of viewed objects with regard to their relative position and distance from the viewer; having a true understanding of the relative importance of things; a sense of proportion. | + | |
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The first definition neatly describes a simple change in point of view or attitude, the second definition clearly makes the object more distant from the viewer where it is given a dimension in space, and has a relative importance, and a proportion in relation to everything else. | The first definition neatly describes a simple change in point of view or attitude, the second definition clearly makes the object more distant from the viewer where it is given a dimension in space, and has a relative importance, and a proportion in relation to everything else. | ||
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we are separate from other beings and the planet | we are separate from other beings and the planet | ||
- | our actions don’t matter | + | |
+ | our actions don’t matter | ||
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nature is there for us to harvest | nature is there for us to harvest | ||
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what we do in our homes is our own business | what we do in our homes is our own business | ||
- | other people are the cause of our problems | + | |
+ | other people are the cause of our problems | ||
other people should find the solutions | other people should find the solutions | ||