Welcome to ED 870 AL

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Welcome to ED 870 AL
Sustaining Wellbeing through Health, Outdoor and
Physical Education (HOPE) pedagogy in education
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Agenda for this evening

• Green Life
• Quick walk through Theory U Scharmer (2008)
• Addressing the challenge
• discussing/comparing our group work through the
  process
• An Emerging Understanding continuation and
  development of your orientation

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Organized (Life)
Time and Fear international trend toward
investing public funds in sports areas rather
than in multi-choice space for free play.
Time in nature is not leisure time its an
essential investment in our childrens health
I dont really have much time to play . . .
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Education as a Barrier to Nature
Mans heart, away from nature, becomes hard
Lakota knew that the lack of respect for
growing, living things soon led to lack of
respect for humans too
Has our relationship with the outdoors reversed,
or more accurately regressed?
Boundaries of childrens lives are growing ever
tighter
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To a person uninstructed in natural history, his
country or seaside stroll is a walk through a
gallery filled with wonderful works of art,
nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to
the wall. (T. Huxley)
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Silicon Faith
we have industrialized the classroom to the
extent that there is no room for nature in the
curriculum.
Ecophobia . . . . The fear of ecological
deterioration . . . if we fill our classrooms
with examples of environmental abuse, we may be
engendering a subtle form of dissociation.
(denial) . . . Emotionally, they turn off.
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W. F. Ready the Bushes
Where Will the Future Stewards of Nature Come
From?
Boundaries of childrens lives are growing ever
tighter
Welcome to Matrix National Park
The protection of nature depends on more than the
organizational strength or stewardship
organizations it also depends on the quality of
the relationship between the young and nature
on how, or if, the young attach to nature.
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• U turn educational practice link (Scharmer
  2004)

the success of an intervention depends on the
interior condition of the intervener. What
counts is no only what leaders do an how they do
it, but that interior condition, the inner
place (blind-spot) from which they operate or the
source from which their actions originates. In
order to lead and learn from the future as it
emerges . . . Individuals, groups, and
institutions have to shift the inner place from
which they operate. That is, in order to enhance
the capacity for creating profound innovations,
leaders have to find that blind spot they have
to become aware of and change the inner place
from which they operate as individuals, as teams,
and as larger collective entities
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• U turn educational practice link (Scharmer
  2004)

the key issue of our current global crisis the
widening social, ecological, and cultural divides
. . . Is that we do not have the individual and
collective capacity to cross the threshold from
the past to the future. the field walk . . .
A field has two aspects the visible, which is
what we see above the surface and the invisible,
which is what is below the surface. The quality
of the yield the visible results is a
function of the quality of the soil, of those
elements of the field that are most invisible to
the eye. What is most important is invisible to
the eye.
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• U turn educational practice link (Scharmer
  2004)

• Holding the Space Listen to What Life Calls
  You to Do
• Observing Attend with Your Mind Wide Open
• Sensing Connect with Your Heart
• Presencing Connect to the Deepest Source of
  Your Self and Will
• Crystallizing Access the Power of Intention
• Prototyping Integrating Head, Heart, and Hand
• Performing Playing the Macro -

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Creating Principles for a 1,000 Acre Island
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• Creating Principles for a 1,000 Acre Island
• Brainstorm together what principles you would
  like to use to govern this island
• Principles as distinguished from Policies
• What principles do you come up with?
• If you follow these principles regularly, would
  you be able to sustain yourselves indefinitely?

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Sharing and Discussing your Matrix
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• From Compliance to Innovation
• five stages of emerging drivers (forces)

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• What are we learning about
• Risks and opportunities
• Educators discover that a much broader set of
  educational opportunities is available
• What is the set?
• Positioning for the future and the present
• Sustainability drivers
• Investing in the future link
• A new perspective on change

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• Class to be off campus
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