Learning and Growth

The general underlying principle of adult human development is we grow psychologically through a decrease in egocentrism, by increasingly developing the ability to effectively appreciate, interpret and engage with others’ perspectives and worldviews. Overall this can be seen as a progression from egocentrism to ethnocentrism to world-centrism. It also speaks to an ability to deal with greater complexity. As we are habitual beings, embodied effective learning can be interpreted as the development of new habits to deal with that greater complexity.

These notes cover an introduction to some of the main concepts about learning and personal growth in this approach.

They do not offer a full explanation of these principles rather they provide a basic understanding of what is involved.

Adult Human Development

There are many theories about the psychosocial development of human beings but amongst those theories there is some commonality. To quote Ken Wilber in his book, ‘A Theory of Everything’: “From...

Distinctions, Stories and Statistical Learning

Before telephones became common place, people used to communicate over long distances by telegraph via a sequence of electrical impulses. ‘Morse Code’, which involves patterns of short and long...

Orders of Learning

In this work, learning is a distinction we make in language. It is an assessment made of someone’s or something’s change in capacity to generate effective action. As an assessment...

The Learning Space

Adult development involves sustainable change. Any approach to a designed sustainable change has to begin with the understanding we are habitual beings. Any sustainable change process is one...

Creating Future Moments

The principle underlying the formation of new habits is repetition so that we build the new neural connections. In order to repeat our desired actions requires intent. We have to choose the new...

The Story Action Cycle

Our way of being is not static but shifts dynamically through time. Think about how you feel on any given day. No doubt there will be periods when your energy levels vary; sometimes higher,...

Authenticity

When asked most people would say they want to live an authentic life, but what does that mean? Generally people appear to form their response on the basis of who they think is the ’real me’,...