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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
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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.############################I just uploaded a talk 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.
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