Brad,

I really enjoyed your didactic seminar! I feel like I should be getting
some CEUs for watching it! Very thorough, concise, and informative. A bit
heady...and it's hard not to be with this kind of content. I'd be
interested to hear how your staff received the presentation.

Took a few notes and some screenshots of helpful diagrams you offered:

- 13:00-15:00(ish) = lovely summarization of what happens when we lack a
meta-narrative (in relation to destabilization, postmodernity,
(de)constructionism, etc.)

- 20:00-23:00(ish) = "Our media ecology is so profoundly unhealthy" +
details + implications + propaganda vs. education

- "A racialized environment leads to a racialized self."

- "Ultimately the goal is equality of social power and the development of
personal power."

Please keep sharing the content you're generating. I find it particularly
meaningful.

Received with love,

Ali

El mar, 8 mar 2022 a la(s) 10:01, Brad Kershner ([log in to unmask])
escribió:

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> Hi Greg,
>
> Thanks for listening! Yes, definitely just a broad intro. Kind of an
> opening lecture for what will be a long (never ending?) series of more
> intimate conversations. The feedback was mostly positive, though I
> think many were just overwhelmed. I think many in this community have a
> desire for a more spiritual, transcendent vision and approach, which is
> what I am trying to tap into. And even for those who are more oriented
> toward a woke perspective, it is hard to argue with the research and the
> loving intention that I am trying to convey, so my hope (and sense) is that
> it allows them to pause and perhaps engage future conversations with more
> humility and less of a sense of 'we know what we think and we need to do
> xyz' when xyz are taken from Kendi or Hannah-Jones or activist college
> students, etc.
>
> So I'll be continuing to think about what those next conversations can
> look like, and how to create a space and micro-culture for honest dialogue
> and inquiry, which is really the main thing. The biggest impediment is
> people having trepidation about actually thinking and discussing things
> openly, so I'm doing my best to promote that as transparently as I can.
>
> Thanks again for your time and attention - it is much appreciated. If you
> ever want to chat to dive deeper into this with me as I stumble along, let
> me know!
>
> Brad
>
>
>
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>> Hi Brad,
>>
>> Since you mentioned me explicitly, I'll share a few thoughts about your
>> DEI-via-evolutionary-lens talk.
>>
>> As a student of the developmental bio-pyscho-social-spiritual models you
>> reference, I found it to be a very good overview. If this was the
>> introductory lesson to a series of lectures on DEI, I'd give it an A. But
>> it's mainly an introduction to the evolution of consciousness and culture,
>> not a deep dive into its application on the ground in organizations.
>>
>> It's a beautiful view at the 10,000 foot level; but how to apply these
>> general frameworks into the day-to-day interactions of people in
>> organizations is where the rubber meets the road.
>>
>> No doubt, Brad, you've given your Waldorf colleagues the basis for an
>> advance in their "perspectival" knowing. But John Vervaeke's procedural,
>> propositional, and participatory ways of knowing would need to be, in
>> practical, pragmatic terms, brought to bear too for a fuller view of how an
>> Integral-Metamodern version of DEI could be designed.
>>
>> What was the response of your Waldorf colleagues?
>>
>> Greg Thomas
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 6:41 PM Brad Kershner <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
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>>> As discussed in my conversion with Gregg on his podcast, part of my work
>>> is trying to bring some of these big picture ideas and meta-views into my
>>> work in education, and into the conversation about diversity, equity, and
>>> inclusion in education.
>>>
>>>
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_e8Ocd-2D7-5FnKI&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=nsKcbnzaAnL8V0mLivF3YzODHGDyFWN-cm23q6N14uU&s=q308F0yk1fanKO8DxhImzbt-mSWYCREoYf0AflhKfnE&e=>
>>> I just uploaded a talk
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__youtu.be_e8Ocd-2D7-5FnKI&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=nsKcbnzaAnL8V0mLivF3YzODHGDyFWN-cm23q6N14uU&s=q308F0yk1fanKO8DxhImzbt-mSWYCREoYf0AflhKfnE&e=>that
>>> I gave to staff at a Waldorf school. It is ostensibly about DEI, but it is
>>> really about the evolution of consciousness and culture (of course). I
>>> borrow some of Zak's language to get the ball rolling, and then try to pan
>>> out and reframe the discourse in terms of the historical development of
>>> identity and values, with an emphasis on the ways that our toxic media
>>> ecology contributes to the fragmentation of identity, and leads to the
>>> entire DEI conversation being co-opted by polarization and culture war.
>>>
>>> Not sure if I'll share on social media, but I think it's safe and
>>> hopefully helpful to share here.
>>>
>>> FYI esp Greg Thomas - I'd be curious to know what you think if you have
>>> time for it.
>>>
>>> sent with love, to be received with love,
>>>
>>> Brad
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