Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy write by Michael A. Gordon. This book was released on 2019-07-16. Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on the author’s lifelong practice in the non-competitive and defensive Japanese art of Aikido, this book examines education as self-cultivation, from a Japanese philosophy (e.g. Buddhist) perspective. Contemplative practices, such as secular mindfulness meditation, are being increasingly integrated into pedagogical settings to enhance social and emotional learning and well-being and to address stress-induced overwhelm due to increased pressures on the education system and its constituents. The chapters in this book explore the various ways, through the lens of this non-violent relational art of Aikido, that pedagogy is always something being practiced (on the level of psychological, somatic and emotional registers) and thus holding potential for transformation into being more relational, ecological-minded, and reflecting more ‘embodied attunement.’ Positioning education as a practice, one of self-discovery, the author argues that one can approach personal development as engaging in a spiritual process of integrating mind and body towards full presence of being and existence.
Contemplative Pedagogies for Transformative Teaching, Learning, and Being
Contemplative Pedagogies for Transformative Teaching, Learning, and Being - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemplative Pedagogies for Transformative Teaching, Learning, and Being write by Jing Lin. This book was released on 2019-11-01. Contemplative Pedagogies for Transformative Teaching, Learning, and Being available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In our current systems of education, there is a trend toward compartmentalizing knowledge, standardizing assessments of learning, and focusing primarily on quantifiable and positivist forms of inquiry. Contemplative inquiry, on the other hand, takes us on a transformative pathway toward wisdom, morality, integrity, equanimity, and joy (Zajonc, 2009). These holistic learning practices are needed as a counterbalance to the over-emphasis on positivism that we see today. In addition to learning quantifiable information, we also need to learn to be calmer, wiser, kinder, and happier. This book aims to find and share various pathways leading to these ends. This book will describe educational endeavors in various settings that use contemplative pedagogies to enable students to achieve deep learning, peace, tranquility, equanimity, and wisdom to gain new understanding about self and life, and to grow holistically. Embodiment is a central concept in this book. We hope to highlight strategies for exploring internal wisdoms through engaging ourselves beyond simply the rational mind. Contemplative pedagogies such as meditation, yoga, tai chi, dance, arts, poetry, reflective writing and movements, can help students embody what they learn by integrating their body, heart, mind, and spirit.
Practicing Love
Practicing Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Practicing Love write by Michael Gordon. This book was released on 2018. Practicing Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemplative practices, such as secular mindfulness meditation, are being increasingly integrated into pedagogical settings to enhance social and emotional well-being and to address stress-induced overwhelm due to increased pressures on the education system and its constituents. While these practices bring benefits, including increased self-awareness, emotional self-regulation, and empathy for teachers and learners alike, this dissertation makes the claim that pedagogical practices on the whole reflect an epistemological worldview that privileges a highly cognitive approach to teaching and learning, one that fails to fully account for the deeper psychological, emotional, and somatic registers of human participants, and that sees them as separate from the other-than-human ecology of life around them. In a time of global crisis, such contemplative approaches to education, as beneficial as they may be, run the risk of reinforcing the psychosomatic notion of the individualized human self-itself rooted in interiorized experience--the Cartesian notion of mind-body dichotomy, and a host of other factors that underscore an already hypercompetitive and anthropocentric world. This dissertation extensively draws on the author's lifelong practice in the non-competitive and defensive Japanese art of Aikido. Known as the 'art of peace,' Aikido is an inherently relational practice that teaches practitioners to view and engage an 'opponent' from a virtue-ethic standpoint and ontological view of non-dualism, non-violence, and calm, controlled physical resolution. Aikido is rooted in a spiritual and practical ethos of harmonized relations, or more radically, of unifying 'love.' To be effective, one has to embody this ethic not only from the intention of an 'inner posture,' but through fluid timing, relaxed movement, and non-aggression in their 'outer posture' and intercorporeality. Learning Aikido requires one to focus not only on cognitively acquired skill, but also on mind-body-spirit integration. The four essays in this thesis explore the various ways, through the lens of this non-violent relational art of Aikido, that pedagogy is always something being practiced (on the level of psychological, somatic and emotional registers) and thus holding potential for transformation into being more relational, ecological-minded, and reflecting more 'embodied attunement.' Thus pedagogy, as Aikido, holds potency as the skillful practice of empathic connectivity or 'love.' From the 'art of motorcycling' to 'teacher as healer,' these essays present teaching-learning practice from the Japanese philosophy worldview as 'way' or path-one that is taken up for daily life and based on self-cultivation of virtue-ethics as an aspirational achievement of mind-body integration and wholeness, rather than preoccupation with establishing claims about absolute truth.
Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies
Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies write by Daniel Enstedt. This book was released on 2023-11-14. Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the reception, development and construction of Eastern practices in the Nordic countries. The focus is on spirituality, medicine and healing from a lived religion perspective. Besides a geographical focus on the Nordic countries and their characteristics, this collection examines the embodied practices aligned with different expressions of religiosity, alternative medicine, spirituality and healing practices. By addressing questions about how so-called Eastern practices are embodied, spread and materialized, the contributors shed light on a cultural change in Nordic societies regarding religious, spiritual and alternative health practices, that are sometimes at odds with the dominant medical discourse about life-threatening diseases and other types of conditions.
Leadership Wholeness, Volume 1
Leadership Wholeness, Volume 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Leadership Wholeness, Volume 1 write by Thomas Thakadipuram. This book was released on 2023-01-01. Leadership Wholeness, Volume 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates the lived experience of CEOs in their quest for wholeness and presents a model of spiritual intelligence for contemporary leadership. The experience of ethical and spiritual crisis in the post-modern society especially in organizational leadership, calls for deeper quest and spiritual intelligence. Four essential themes emerged from the analysis of the in-depth interviews with top leaders of different organizations across the globe: (1) Sensing Crisis, (2) Embracing Crisis (3) Awakening Hidden Wholeness, (4) and Serving Greater Good. From the analysis of the themes, a model of spiritual intelligence and leadership wholeness is constructed. This Spiritual Intelligence Model portrays the intra-dynamics of leaders’ ongoing quest for wholeness penetrating through their existential, learning, spiritual, and moral dimensions of being and the five ethical dimensions of wholeness permeating through the personal, organizational, social, global, and environmental spheres of life. This book gives a fresh perspective on spiritual intelligence and leadership practice today.
