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Watch the ICA-USA Video Clip on Collaborative Learning
by steve har via Dialogue 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

James Addington and Seva Gandhi describe an ICA-USA Project http://wp.me/s3rKUb-413 -- Steve Harrington

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Fwd: GMCA Sept.15
by David Zahrt via Dialogue 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

*MON SEP 15* *Good Shepherd U. U. Church, Elkhart to Mennonite College, Goshen, IN* I had a good night’s sleep and the weather forecast said Mon. would be sunny. Before we finished breakfast it clouded over and began to sprinkle. I asked Doug if he had any passengers in the Gear truck and he said “No”. I told him that I would help him pack up and put my bike in the truck. He said “OK”. So I made the trip without getting a shower! The Mennonite College has many facilities. I went to the giant auditorium that joins the kitchen. The guest WiFi hooked up to my laptop automatically. I saw a CVS store as we were approaching the college. So later I bicycled to CVS and got my flu shot. The nurse asked if I wanted my pneumonia shot too. I said “Yes”. Maybe I should have said “No”. The only affect I’ve had is 2 sore arms. The college allowed us to camp out in the basement after preschool finished. The Mennonites provided the potluck dinner. They sang the mealtime blessing—they’re like a chorus! It was the biggest gathering we’ve had (at least 200 people). And it was clear that they welcomed us. After the meal we adjourned to another part of the auditorium and there were a series of presentations, including some from the Marchers. The chair invited those who wanted to March to meet in one corner, and those who wanted to go to NYC for the Peoples Climate March to meet in another corner, and those who wanted to provide ongoing support of the March to meet in another corner. I am going to NYC so joined that group. We got details on upcoming events. To end the meeting our hosts sang their version of the Doxology; yet another chorus. -- Peace, David

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Sydney Working group on Imaginal Education has just begun
by steve har via Dialogue 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Hello Imaginal Education GARA Working Group and others Robyn Hutchinson just began showing the video and having a Skype conference There are people on the call from Japan, Nepal, Singapore and India. People have access to the video of James Addington and Seva Gandhi interview talking about the the educational components of the Chicago oriented action based learning in neighborhood communities You will be able to see a similar program in North Central and South America beginning 1pm CDT Chicago (1300 hours) You will be able to see the program live and recorded on YouTube on your web browser at this location: https://plus.google.com/u/0/101302036486582034870/posts Please join us! -- Steve Harrington

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Re: [Dialogue] Anyone remember any of these Education Structure Events - or know some new ones?
by jlepps＠pc.jaring.my via Dialogue 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Hello Steve and colleagues, ICA Denver was accredited by the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, to conduct the Imaginal Education course for educators between 1982-1985. Accreditation meant public school teachers who took the course from ICA Denver received a specific number of in-service credits towards their required number of learning credits they had to accumulate each year. The course was conducted several times during that period with Imaginal Ed trainers: John Epps and Karen Wright. LENS International, Malaysia, conducted a total of 6 days of training for 60 technical lecturers (about 20 at a time) of the Malaysia national oil company's technical college: INSTEP, (Institute of Technology Petronas) between 2000 - 2002. Training included the ToP Group Facilitation Methods, Participatory Strategic Planning, and Imaginal Education. Additional mentoring sessions were conducted with the college's "change champions" as a part of major change effort taking place to shift from "lecturing" to "learning facilitation." LENS International, Malaysia, also conducted facilitation skills training for about 18 heads of departments at the Universiti Technology PETRONAS (UTP) in the early part of the 21st Century. This training consisted of the TOP Group Facilitation Methods which they wanted to use in facilitating more productive meetings. Another group of UTP lecturers (about 50 in all) received training in ToP Group Facilitation Methods, Participatory Strategic Planning, and Imaginal Education. UTP was in the midst of a transition from a diploma granting college to a 4-year degree and graduate-degree granting university, hence found these course useful to make the change desired. More recently Dr. Clarence Mann and Dr. John Epps have been conducting graduate school courses for the University of Maryland University College in international business strategy using the ICA's social and corporate process models as part of the course, "Managing Country Risk." John has been teaching the course online for 15 years (as of 2014) and Clancy before that in a classroom setting. In Singapore, LENS conducted strategic planning for the National Institute of Education (that trains schoolteachers), and later conducted strategic planning for three departments, Education, Arts, and Science). 300 senior classroom teachers in Singapore attended day-long sessions on ORID, the Focused Conversation method for use in their classrooms. The Civil Service College of Singapore has conducted courses in ToP Facilitation Skills four to ten times per year for members of the Singapore Civil Service. Nanyang Technical University (NTU) in Singapore conducted ToP Training in Strategic Planning Facilitation for Mechanical Engineering faculty. I hope this information is useful to your research efforts. Regards, Ann Epps LENS International Kuala Lumpur - Singapore - Denver Quoting steve har via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> > Several people in the Imaginal Education Working Group are asking > about Educational Structures ICA has had contact with in the past > > We did a "Find" in the GAP online database and found this data > Did you work with any of these educational institutions? > Are there any you've worked with that are not on the list? > > Here is the list displayed in a google spreadsheet > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MIDSOx8sSM53G8zoQr90UP-DZdCwN7icnOy…>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MIDSOx8sSM53G8zoQr90UP-DZdCwN7icnOy… > > Can you help us "crowd source" the list and create more complete > information? > > Thanks! > > -- > Steve, a communicator for the Imaginal Education Research Working Group > _______________________________________________ > Dialogue mailing list > Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail has been sent via JARING webmail at http://www.jaring.my

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Re: [Dialogue] Anyone remember any of these Education Structure Events - or know some new ones?
by ANN S. EPPS via Dialogue 23 Sep '14

23 Sep '14

Hello Steve and colleagues, ICA Denver was accredited by the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, to conduct the Imaginal Education course for educators between 1982-1985. Accreditation meant public school teachers who took the course from ICA Denver received a specific number of in-service credits towards their required number of learning credits they had to accumulate each year. The course was conducted several times during that period with Imaginal Ed trainers: John Epps and Karen Wright. LENS International, Malaysia, conducted a total of 6 days of training for 60 technical lecturers (about 20 at a time) of the Malaysia national oil company's technical college: INSTEP, between 2000 - 2002. Training included the ToP Group Facilitation Methods, Participatory Strategic Planning, and Imaginal Education. Additional mentoring sessions were conducted with the college's "change champions" as a part of major change effort taking place to shift from "lecturing" to "learning facilitation." LENS International, Malaysia, also conducted facilitation skills training for about 18 heads of departments at the Universiti Technology PETRONAS (UTP) in the early part of the 21st Century. This training consisted of the TOP Group Facilitation Methods which they wanted to use in facilitating more productive meetings. Another group of UTP lecturers (about 50 in all received training in ToP Group Facilitation Methods, Participatory Strategic Planning, and Imaginal Education. UTP was in the midst of a transition from a diploma granting college to a 4-year degree and graduate-degree granting university, hence found these course useful to make the change desired. More recently Dr. Clarence Mann and Dr. John Epps have been conducting graduate school courses for the University of Maryland University College in international business strategy using the ICA's social and corporate process models as part of the course, "Managing Country Risk." John has been teaching the course online for 15 years (as of 2014) and Clancy before that in a classroom setting. I hope this information is useful to your research efforts. Regards, Ann Epps LENS International Kuala Lumpur - Singapore - Denver Quoting steve har via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> > Several people in the Imaginal Education Working Group are asking > about Educational Structures ICA has had contact with in the past > > We did a "Find" in the GAP online database and found this data > Did you work with any of these educational institutions? > Are there any you've worked with that are not on the list? > > Here is the list displayed in a google spreadsheet > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MIDSOx8sSM53G8zoQr90UP-DZdCwN7icnOy…>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MIDSOx8sSM53G8zoQr90UP-DZdCwN7icnOy… > > Can you help us "crowd source" the list and create more complete > information? > > Thanks! > > -- > Steve, a communicator for the Imaginal Education Research Working Group > _______________________________________________ > Dialogue mailing list > Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail has been sent via JARING webmail at http://www.jaring.my

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Fwd: GMCA 9/14
by David Zahrt via Dialogue 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

*SUN SEP 14* *Good Shepherd Montessori School, South Bend to Unitarian Universalist Church, Elkhart, IN* I went to breakfast and had my yogurt and granola—I miss my own home-made, sun-dried granola. One of the things the March has added to my diet is almonds. There is almond milk at breakfast, and almond butter for lunch sandwiches. Somewhere I remember hearing/reading that almonds are good for you HDLs. I don’t know what my HDL is now but I remember the last test I had showed it as 35: that’s marginal. I usually have 2 checkups a year. I had one in February. I’ll have one when I get back to Carson. Circle-up was scheduled for 7:15am. It still hadn’t happened by 7:45am so I left on my bike. I found the March route more complicated then necessary and took Jefferson Blvd east until I reached Elkhart. Then I stopped and inquired at a MacDonald's about the best route to the church. The church was graciously hospitable. I arrived just after the morning service had been completed. They offered me coffee or tea. A small group gathered to go out for lunch. They invited me to go with them. I thanked them and declined indicating I'd packed my lunch. In the afternoon the pastor let us use her office and her computer. There were two places inside where we were allowed to stay: the auditorium and the Kids House. I chose the latter. A greet and welcome get-together was scheduled at 4pm. Kat conducted the conversation. There were probably as many local residents as there were Marchers. She had a series of questions and circled around the group encouraging everyone to answer the questions. The closing question was “What can you do to help turn the Climate Crisis around?”. There were a lot of interesting answers. At 6pm a potluck dinner was served in the kitchen. Most of the dishes were brought in by the local residents. At 8pm we called it an evening. -- Peace, David

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Anyone remember any of these Education Structure Events - or know some new ones?
by steve har via Dialogue 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

Several people in the Imaginal Education Working Group are asking about Educational Structures ICA has had contact with in the past We did a "Find" in the GAP online database and found this data Did you work with any of these educational institutions? Are there any you've worked with that are not on the list? Here is the list displayed in a google spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MIDSOx8sSM53G8zoQr90UP-DZdCwN7icnOy… Can you help us "crowd source" the list and create more complete information? Thanks! -- Steve, a communicator for the Imaginal Education Research Working Group

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GARA Imaginal Education Research Working Group Announcement
by steve har via Dialogue 22 Sep '14

22 Sep '14

The Imaginal Education working group communicators have just sent out a start-up document with our 1st research focus. You can still register and join the the Imaginal Education Research Working Group. Please Ask ----GARA Imaginal Education Working Group Agenda--- MONDAY Sep 22 we will focus on the project work of a master educator TUESDAY Sep 23 we will Broadcast live on YouTube a conversation about the collaborative learning environment created in ICA-USA's ABCD Share-Fair Project (The expected LIVE BROADCAST TIME IS TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 AT 1PM CDT USA (1300 hours Chicago - we will post an announcement) Through out the week we will be sharing "Research Postcards" of Imaginal Education related work at the Imaginal Eduction http://wedgeblade.net/wordpress/imaginaleducation/blog/ ICA Research G+ Page https://www.youtube.com/user/icaresearchaccess/feed -- Steve Harrington

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Historical Records Team Collegium
by Beret Griffith via Dialogue 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

The Historical Records Team has two exciting announcements to make tomorrow morning at the Historical Records Team Collegium, Monday, September 22, 2014. Tune in for a peek into life at the ICA Global Archives, ICA GreenRise, Chicago, Illinois, USA.. Find out how you can access the ICA Global Archives holdings and documents currently on-line. We will be providing links that were only dreamed possible when work in the archives began many years ago. You will be among the first people to experience this transparency, which we hope will give you the confidence and courage to dive into your personal documents, artifacts, slides, photographs, old audio tapes, films, decor, graphics to decide what is worth preserving for the Future of the Archives. We are prepared to provide support to individuals and ICA offices around the world needing assistance. Beret Griffith for the current Historical Records Team Marge Philbrook, Jean Long, Frank Knutson, Christina Wolf and Wendell Refior of the Tech Team for providing technical support Please contact me at beretgriffith(a)gmail.com to let us know if you are interested in working with the Global Archives Team

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Fwd: GMCA Sept.13
by David Zahrt via Dialogue 21 Sep '14

21 Sep '14

SAT SEP 13 * Stay Day: Good Shepherd Montessori School, South Bend, IN* It was a stay-day and I got up late: 7am! I looked in the kitchen/dining hall and no one was up. I checked the Kitchen Truck and found it locked. Mary opened the truck and brought some breakfast out. I requested granola and yogurt and she put it out. Later on the lunch food was out and I made myself a lunch. Eventually John Abbe got up and cooked a late breakfast meal. After that he conducted a meeting that began to sort out the logistics for the remainder of the March. A portion of that was attending the NYC Peoples Climate March in a phone conference. Anita was labeling vests, over a template, with a black magic marker on a table near the meeting. She needed someone to hold the vest over the template so I assisted. Lunch prep started and I met John Gibson’s Earth Charter colleagues, Charlotte and Deb, who live in and around South Bend. They arrived to bring produce for lunch. They also helped with the meal preparation. I learned that Charlotte and her husband have a vegetable farm, and Deb rides her bike to work. We made our way over to the Notre Dame University Library to view the film *Disruption*. We’d already seen it at ICA in Chicago, but it was a powerful film. It emphasized the power of the people. When I got back to the school I sorted through my clothes to get ready for tomorrow. Dinner was very late and we finished up at 9pm. -- Peace, David

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