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  | What follows is an excerpt from a longer article: “Time Management, Learning Events, and Culture,” by Jenny Giezendanner, Certified Dialogue Education Practitioner. The article is free and you can download it here to read the rest.
Rubber time in Indonesia, mañana in Latin America, the Pünktlichkeit of the Germanic –each characterizes a [...] Next week the GLP partners and staff convene in Raleigh, North Carolina for our semi-annual retreat. One of the things that’s very common at our gatherings are “walk and talk” meetings during our extended lunch hours. Something about talking while walking jogs (ha ha) the brain in ways that talking while sitting does [...] “Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.” ~ Charles Simmons We’ve all done it: started meetings [...] When I was a kid, about twelve years old, I went to a YMCA special weekend called Inward Bound (the link isn’t to the same program, but this one is close, and looks great!). It was for kids all over the state and we learned about ourselves, about how we’re all different, and got [...] The Diamond of Participation,Chris Corrigan It had been a grueling day and we were winding down for the night. This was our semi-annual Global Learning Partners business retreat and most of the core team was gathered together for more than three intensive days of work. I admit I was a little cranky,[...] The Dome at MIT In my last blog post I wrote about our evolving educational systems and one of the things I mentioned was MIT’s Open Course Ware program and how great it is that they give away their courses for free. GLP’s astute marketing manager,Debra Cagwin,took some [...]  We are living in revolutionary times when it comes to education. Evolutionary Timeline,by atheist @ flickr More and more,people are turning to the internet for their learning,and before too long I expect our entire educational system will be turned on its head because of “non-traditional” offerings. Even if the educational norms [...] In the TED video shown below,Simon Sinek talks about his discovery about what separates successful organizations,leaders,or entrepreneurs from those who are not. What made Apple,and Martin Luther King,Jr. and the Wright Brothers successful,when in each case there were plenty of others out there doing what they were doing? [...] As I sit down today to write my blog post I am thinking of the people of Japan. I find it hard to focus on much other than the staggering news reports about the destruction of the massive earthquake and tsunami,which was strong enough to shift the earth’s axis,causing the planet to spin [...] There are so many great examples in the latest issue of Voices in Dialogue about how Dialogue Education™ is uniquely suited to peace building efforts,from negotiating conflict between divorcing couples to crafting a peace treaty between rebel groups and the military in the Philippines. Dialogue is a powerful tool for achieving authentic and [...] | ||||
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