Dive into the archives.
- Learning from Our Reflections on Thought
I have suggested in this blog that the constructive activity of curating —- of laying out the elements of what we think and know and extracting a whole picture from the parts— is an essential movement in creative thought. Sometimes, in a productive work team, a similar process occurs as multiple members’ contributions create a [...]
- On Learning How
A great “Aha!” in the history of psychotherapy came with the recognition (roughly 50 years ago) that the “lifting” or resolution of emotional disturbance did not mean a necessary turn toward emotional well-being. The effect of the original disturbance had blocked learning. If well-being was to be achieved, productive and healthy experiential learning was essential. [...]
- Bridging Disciplines
Psychological consultation, despite its qualitative breadth, runs a risk familiar to most organizations— from family units to multinational corporations: the silo. Silos are exactly what their agricultural images suggest: bounded containers within which a particular kind of stuff, product, or service, is kept. When the “stuff” is social science consultation, however, the separation of social [...]
