by Evan Dwan | Jul 22, 2019 | News |
Erich Fromm writes: “This attitude towards the ‘stranger’ is inseparable from the attitude towards oneself. As long as any fellow human being is experienced as fundamentally different from myself, as long as he remains a stranger, I remain a stranger to myself too....
by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2019 | News |
At the core of the human organism is an energy that wants to express itself. This is a kind of pre-verbal, pre-intellectual, spontaneous impulse or rhythm that longs to actualise itself. We are in essence creative, active beings that long to act upon our world. This...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2019 | News |
We live in an emotionally-phobic society. There is a deep distrust and fear of feeling and emotion, such that this essential aspect of our humanity is largely left out of social, educational and organisational life. When someone asks how you are do you reply honestly?...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2019 | News |
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” ― Maya Angelou The most important element that we bring to any human endeavour or interaction is the quality of our own...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 19, 2019 | News |
What is the nature of learning and what are the types of learning that really matter? If you were to think back over your life what are the learning experiences that really stood out as fundamental, meaningful or important? Chances are it is not necessarily...
by Evan Dwan | Jul 18, 2019 | News |
Abraham Maslow describes the aim of a humanistic education as self-actualisation, or, another way of understanding this much used but often misunderstood concept, becoming fully human. This means “the development of the fullest height that the human species can stand...
