Transformational Learning and the Hidden Curriculum of Groups

Presented by Adam Rumack and Miriam Jones, partners and founders of We are Open Circle (www.weareopencircle.com) in collaboration with The Grove (http://thegrove.net.au).

Life has a hidden curriculum. Sometimes the lessons in this curriculum come crashing through the pages of what we thought we were here to learn, and sometimes, when looking, listening, feeling, and sensing with heightened awareness, we can perceive the hidden curriculum without such great catastrophe to our agenda.  

Anytime a group comes together, whether to work toward a mission, as in organisations, or to explore together, as in a course of learning, or to practice together, as in a meditation community, there is an opportunity to heighten our perception to the level of this hidden curriculum.

With this heightened perception you may discover lessons on emergence and collapse, power and disempowerment, leadership and follow-ship, tolerance and intolerance, inclusion and exclusion, agency and communion, adaptability and failure, the sacred and the profane, binaries and paradox, and the fluidity all of these apparent contradictions conceal.

In this session, we will offer some practice and theory to help illuminate the hidden structures of learning and group dynamics. 

Some of the topics that will be touched on include;

•   Defining “transformational education” vs. technical learning
•   The hidden and visible structures of power & authority in groups
•   The Listening Circle form as a transformational tool (theory & practice)
•   The decisions groups make, visible and invisible
•   The conditions for collective wisdom and the pitfalls of collective folly

You will leave with having practiced and collaborated in practical tools for facilitating transformational learning and some ideas for how you might apply them, individually and collectively, in your relationships, work, and lives.

The online event will run from 12.00 - 1.30 pm with an optional half hour for Q&A from 1.30 - 2.00 pm. Recommended ticket price is $25 however please email us if your financial circumstance might prevent you from attending.