Deep connections!

Deep connections are good at every level

All civilisations have collapsed because of rivalrous dynamics, for us to survive we need a felt sense that we are all connected to each other and the biosphere.  Rather than being rivalrous we work towards a common good.

This is a hard problem because, although we are highly adaptive as humans, we are no longer being exposed enough to complex systems only to complicated systems, like cities (a house burns down, it stays burned down, a forest regenerates) or organisations that have a life measured in decades not centuries, tripped up by a change in technology or consumer tastes.

Reconditioning our felt sense of connectedness is not a trivial thing to do.  To achieve it we need to build connectedness into our institutional frameworks and there is no better place to start than education.

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The value created in schools comes from within and between individuals.  The highest value occurs when deep connections are formed between teacher and student.  It is in the interest of education systems to build and foster deep connections to create those high value student outcomes that are now needed in a modern society.

These deep connections themselves are now becoming a desired good, making education systems important contributors to the social and societal transformations that we need to survive – and thrive – as a civilisation.

The transformation of our education systems is even more important than we thought.

John Corrigan is an expert in helping individuals to bring their whole of mind to their daily life and increase their effectiveness and the effectiveness of those around them. This expertise scales from the individual to the team to the organisation. At the core of this work is the practice of encounter.  Earlier blogs can be found here.

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