Educational, Social and Health Evolution

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Holding a vision of
integrated learning

in resonance with
life’s heart pulse

in alignment with
life’s essential
values

in attunement with
life’s natural
processes

in connection with
life’s grounded
places and abundant
2013 visits: Kerala,India ~ Glastonbury,UK ~ Ston,Croatia ~ Slovenia~ Beit Meri, Niha & Byblos,Lebanon
possibilities
Hala Makarem Saab
December 2013
 Educational Soil Cultivation Co-creating cohesive
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experiences
“We have to go from what is essentially
an industrial model of education, a
manufacturing model, which is based on
linearity and conformity and batching
people. We have to move to a model
that is based more on principles of
agriculture. We have to recognize that
human flourishing is not a mechanical
process; it's an organic process. And you
cannot predict the outcome of human
development. All you can do, like a
farmer, is create the conditions under
which they will begin to flourish.” Ken
Robinson

Holding space for the

emerging roles of
educators, teachers,
students, parent learners,
community; in conjunction
with innovative learning
operating systems,
Kerala, India ~ Rifnik,Slovenia ~ Bosnia ~ Dubrovnik, Croatia ~ Afqa, Beirut, Beit Meri, Byblos, Niha & Saida, Lebanon
responsive integrated
Where is the source of our learning? curriculum, place-based
architectural learning
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spaces and …
 Educational Life Passages
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attention ….
“primary adolescence is the ideal time for
any child to awaken his or her deep
potential while still guided by parents.
Adolescence doesn’t have to be a time of
confusion and deep pain that limits
adulthood. Healthy cultures carefully guide
teenagers.” Barbara Hand Clow

“there’s absolutely nothing wrong with

(healthy) adolescence, but our cultural
resources have been so degraded over the
centuries that the majority of humans in
“developed” societies now never reach true
adulthood. … The opportunity of the Great
Turning is to create soulcentric societies –
those that are imaginative, ecocentric,
cooperation-based, just, compassionate, and
sustainable.” Bill Plotkin

Holding the learning thread

interconnecting passionate
childhood spirit, mental
navigational capacities,
Kerala,India ~ Glastonbury,UK ~ Dubrovnik,Croatia ~ Rifnik,Slovenia ~ Doha,Qatar ~ Afqa, Saida & Beit Meri,Lebanon
physical embodied identity
How does learning flow through our lives? and relational diverse
understanding
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 Educational Anchors and the Sensory Field Attending with intention
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“The causal point of the things that occur in
our everyday experience isn't in the actions
of others, but within each of us. During our
early years, we are imprinted by the
emotional condition of those responsible for
us. Their emotional state overlays the
essence of who we are, so that we learn to
behave like them instead of growing up to
be ourselves. Our guide to move forth is the
heart and the language of felt-perception.
This journey is about allowing ourselves to
feel life--to be present and awake in each
moment, so that we really experience
everything. It is the chance to participate
actively, responsibly, and creatively in our
lives.” Michael Brown

Holding space for core

values, healthy relational
communication channels,
nurturing family and
learning environment
dynamics, creative
Kerala,India ~ Glastonbury,UK ~ Dubrovnik,Croatia ~ Statenberg,Slovenia ~ Bosnia ~ Byblos and Beit Meri,Lebanon
individual gifts and talent
Who is the learner? discovery, active
awareness of the here and
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now …
 Relational Learning Field Coming together through
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“we must learn to raise children in
alignment with nature, preserving the
innocence of early childhood and
refashioning middle childhood as a
time of wonder and free play in the
natural world. We must assist
teenagers to be as authentic and wildly
creative as they can be. We must
cultivate full societal support for young
and middle-aged adults to explore and
be transformed by the mysteries of
nature and psyche — eventually taking
their places as artisans of cultural
change” Bill Plotkin

Holding space for the

emergence of co-sensing
practices that oscillate
heart experiential
expressions, spiral co-
creative harmonious
Felt-Perception Learning Journey (Awareness/Self, Listening/Attention, Intention/Vision, , Place/Exchange, Response~ability/Action)
April to December 2013 at nSite
possibilities, and radiate
crystallized heart-felt and
What dimensions are touched by learning? embodied actions

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 Capacities, Skills, Intelligences, Technologies
Co-designing individual
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processes
“We are all born with extraordinary
powers of imagination, intelligence,
feeling, intuition, spirituality, and of
physical and sensory awareness.” Ken
Robinson

“There is no system in the world or any

school in the country that is better than
its teachers. Teachers are the lifeblood
of the success of schools “ Ken
Robinson

Holding space for the

effective design of
essential primary
elemental capacities,
middle adolescent skills
and intelligences, higher
youthful physical, social
and emotional technologies
Nature speaks in 2013- 12 months, 12 moments captured during Day1 to Day 15 in Lebanon, a new dawn arises
to be integrated into the
collective learning field of
What nurtures healthy learning spaces? adolescence, teens,
teachers and parents
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 Unifying Education and Life Life AND Learning coming
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“the ‘food court metaphor’ will be on
meeting individual preferences and needs,
allowing wide choice across traditional
academic, professional and vocational
‘subject streams’, together with the design
of curricula that incorporate concurrent
academic and vocational study by any
individual student. The metaphor
incorporates the high value that will be
placed on academic understanding as well as
on concurrent professional and vocational
skill development, with preparation for
further study, potential employment and life
long learning providing an appropriate
balance to meet changing demands globally”
Mary Hayden and Jeff Thompson

Holding space for

intergenerational learning
journeys; the
empowerment of the
artistic scientist and the
scientific artist; as well as
Cairo, Egypt ~ Amsterdam ~ Creative Expression Journaling 2013
the integration of learning
Listen. Pause. Listen. What comes to light? in the ordinary and the
ordinary in creative
learning spaces
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 Collective Story Scribing and Harvesting
Listening to all that is,
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in each moment,
gathering innovative
individual contribution,
blossoming a creative
collective community;
flourishing
The concept of flourishing has five
necessary ingredients: valuable kinds of
processes, activities and experiences;
appreciation; self-perception; synergy
and symbiosis for the strengthening and
continuing development of the person in
accordance with his or her nature;
fullness” Scherto Gill and Garrett
Thomson

Holding space for the

celebration of a co-
created intentional
learning heart space,
Nature speaks in 2013- 12 months, 12 moments captured during Day16 to Day 30/31 in Lebanon, blossoming
alive through life
learning interconnected
What emerges through learning in the now? organic systems;
thriving
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 Educational, Social and Health Evolution
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Learning

Showing up

Grounding

Shifting Boundaries

Coming Together

Voicing Authenticity

Shaping Form

Embodying Manifestation

2013: Spring equinox at Kerala, India ~ Teens bringing Science and Creativity together at nSite, Beirut
Learning

Hala Makarem Saab

December 2013 – 13 Ahau