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SO WHY DO WE DO IT?. TAPG Pre-Conference November 1, 2011. “So why do we do it? What good is it? Does it teach you anything? Like determination? Invention? Improvisation? Foresight? Hindsight? Love? Art? Music? Religion? Strength or patience or accuracy or quickness or tolerance or
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SO WHY DO WE DO IT? TAPG Pre-ConferenceNovember 1, 2011
“So why do we do it? What good is it? Does it teach you anything? Like determination? Invention? Improvisation? Foresight? Hindsight? Love? Art? Music? Religion? Strength or patience or accuracy or quickness or tolerance or which wood will burn and how long is a day? And how far is a mile? And how delicious is water and smoky green pea soup? And how to rely on your self?” Terry and Renney Russell, On the Loose
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Brainstorming 1. Ways to use the item in beneficial or helpful ways 2. Ways to use the item in harmful or hurtful ways
Examples of Tools • Community Meetings • Greeting people when they arrive • Simulations • Activities • Wilderness trips • Traditions • Sharing/Talking circles
“People and environments are never neutral, they are either summoning or shunning the development of human potential.” Purkey & Novak, Inviting School Success See Invitational Education at www.invitationaleducation.net
How to Increase the Probability of Helping and being Beneficial
How to Increase the Probability of Helping and being Beneficial
Some (not so) Random Thoughts • Know my mission: Personally and Professionally • Continuously explore the “Why” • Look through the activities and into the process • Know (and trust) my medium • Strive to keep an open and broad view • Don’t take myself too seriously • Be Intentional
“It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are.” ~ Wendell Berry
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at but the moment when we are capable of seeing. ~ Joseph Wood Krutch
What Guides You? What shows you the way? • People • Talents/Gifts • Ideas • Insights • Inspiration • Life Experience • Family • Beliefs & Ideals • Values • Theories & Models
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