Montessorians live and breathe the emergent significance of the prepared environment. Spaces are arranged with intention. Beauty, relationship, independence, movement, and concentration are central considerations. Conditions are created in which something may manifest...
For the love we carry, and for the force of syntropy that lives within us, the force that draws together, connects, and gently invites those whose lives touch ours towards a deeper place of seeing and being. A way of seeing beyond what is immediately visible, of...
Certain moments in life quietly ask for our attention. Some arrive as curiosity. Some, as restlessness. Some, as the simple sense that there may be more to learn than we once imagined. Joseph Campbell spent a lifetime listening to such moments. He understood that...
Yesterday I uncorked a bottle of tea I’d been quietly fermenting this summer. There is always a small moment of anticipation. The tea has been alive for months, shaped by thousands upon thousands of unseen relationships, each responding to one another in ways...
There is a kind of awareness older than any curriculum. The kind that notices the quality of light on a particular morning. That finds something in the movement of leaves, or the silence before rain. It is an awareness of the living world that most of us naturally...
TIES situates graduate study within the larger human journey to understand how we might live in deeper harmony with the Earth. In doing so, it draws on the work of Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, and Maria Montessori, who each emphasize the power of story in revealing our...
Certain moments in life ask for our attention quietly. Some arrive as curiosity. Some, as restlessness. Some, as the simple sense that there may be more to learn than we once imagined. Joseph Campbell spent a lifetime listening to such moments. He understood that...
It is a cold, wintry day as I tramp into the nearby forest. A misty rain sweeps through the trees awakening fir, cedar, ivy, moss, fern, and lichen. Gaia proliferates in radiant shades of green. Crow and raven are ever-present and squirrel scurries to and fro. I walk...
As a teacher-educator responsible for sparking awe and wonder in adult learners so that they too will spark awe and wonder in their students, I turned my attention to exploring the function of what I suspect is a game-changing element in adult education. What I found is that to be in a state of awe is a key to transcendence, and it is woven into the story of the universe as part of the fabric of our evolutionary spirit.