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9th International SEAL
Conference
The King's School Canterbury,
Kent, UK
29 March - 1/2 April
2001
'Opening
Minds'
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Keynote Presenters
Chris Clarke
& Joan Walton
- Opening to the New
Paradigm: from separation to interconnection
- A new world view - a new
paradigm - is emerging, supported by recent findings in
science, which suggests that everything is essentially
interconnected. Chris and Joan will explore the principles of
the new paradigm and its implications for learning.
- Chris Clarke was, until
leaving in 1999, Professor of Applied Mathematics at the
University of Southampton, having researched on Astrophysics,
Brain Physics and Quantum Theory. He is now working and teaching
as an independent scholar on the interconnections of science and
spirituality. (http://www.scispirit.com)
Joan Walton is Director of the Bordesley Institute, an
independent education centre based in mid-England. She is
currently undertaking postgraduate work in participatory research
methodologies at Bath University, incorporating ideas arising out
of modern science, transpersonal psychology, and ancient religions
traditions.
Brian
Goodwin
- Cultivation of the
Intuition in Holistic Inquiry
- The sciences of complexity
enable us to study emergent phenomena and to understand health
in various contexts. This involves a fundamental rethinking of
basic biological assumptions and leads to a new science of
qualities.
Brian Goodwin was born in Canada. He studied biology at
McGill University, mathematics at Oxford. After various research
appointments at McGill and MIT, he became a Reader in Biology at
the University of Sussex (1965-1983) then Professor of Biology
(1983-96) at the Open University. He is now a Scholar in Residence
at Schumacher College and Coordinator of the MSc in Holistic
Science. His research and teaching interests are on the use of the
sciences of complexity to study emergent phenomena and to
understand health in various contexts. This involves a fundamental
rethinking of basic biological assumptions and leads to a new
science of qualities.
Dr Rosy
Daniel
- The Intelligent Body, the
Non-Local Mind; Mind-Body Medicine and Beyond
- The revolution in
Psycho-Neuro-Immunology has given us definitive evidence of the
link between our minds and our bodies. Dr Rosy Daniel will
explore what we now 'know' scientifically and what we know and
have always known through our higher intelligence.
Dr Rosy Daniel trained as a GP and then specialised in
holistic, mind-body medicine. She worked for 15 years as a doctor
at the Bristol Cancer Help Centre and was Medical Director and
Chief Executive from 1996. She currently works as a freelance
Holistic Medical Consultant guiding patients on how best to use
holistic therapies and self-help approaches. She lectures
worldwide and broadcasts regularly on the holistic approach to
health, nutrition and psycho-neuro-immunology. She has recently
published Living with Cancer and is currently working on her
fourth book on the holistic approach to cancer prevention.
Michael
Deason-Barrow
- A Question of Balance - A
New Vision of Holistic Musical Practice in Education, Community
and Healing
- A presentation demonstrating
how the Caduceus archetype of healing and wholeness can
re-sound with music.
Michael Deason-Barrow, GRSM, ARCM, is the director of
'Tonalis: Centre for the Development of Music' and a master
singing teacher. He runs workshops and courses all over the world
connected to Holistic Singing, Community Musicing and the Musical
Future of Children. He has recently begun Foundation Trainings in
each of these fields. Increasingly he is being recognised as that
rare exponent in music, an expert with a universal attitude.
Marshall
Rosenberg
- Life-Serving
Education
- Marshall uses Nonviolent
Communication to empower students to liberate themselves from
life-alienating cultural learning, to form life-serving
connections with others, and create and maintain life-serving
organisations. Illustrations from many schools applying
Life-Serving Education.
- While working in correctional and mental institutions,
Marshall Rosenberg developed Nonviolent Communication, a process
to enable us to give and receive compassionately and resolve
differences peacefully. The Center For Nonviolent Communication
evolved out of work with civil rights activists in the early
1960s. In recent years Marshall has been training citizens to
provide training in war-torn and economically deprived countries
including Rwanda, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Croatia, Yugoslavia,
Israel, Palestine, Ireland, and Russia.
Margaret Colquhoun
- studied zoology and population genetics at Edinburgh
University, and later retrained in Goethean science in Germany and
Switzerland. Since 1979 she has been teaching and researching
within Steiner/Waldorf and independently throughout the British
Isles.
Jeannette Vos
- earned her doctorate after seven years of research on using
the world's most effective methods of rapid, fun-filled learning.
A pioneer in accelerated learning, she is a presenter and
consultant, and the creator of The Learning Revolution
International Academy. She is the co-author (with Gordon Dryden)
of international best-seller The Learning Revolution, and
author of The Music Revolution.
Shakti Gattegno
- is President of Educational Solutions Inc in New York,
which is the organisation which publishes, represents and
disseminates Dr Caleb Gattegno's work on The Silent Way. She
studied and experimented with Dr Gattegno's approach to learning
in India and England, and worked on the design of the phonetic
charts for Hindi and other languages. Her publications include
The Place of Love in Education.
The Closing Plenary
will be given
by Sir Christopher Ball,
Patron of SEAL, Chancellor
of the University of Derby, Founder and Patron of the National
Campaign for Learning.
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