Enabling Life: Holistic Thinking
During this week, participants will be guided to work in such a way that each individual, and the group as a whole, will begin to recognise the paradoxical nature of intention (that to realise oneself one has to open oneself); the paradoxical nature of observation and thinking (that each both conceals and reveals the potential of the other), and the paradoxical nature of humanity’s relationship to the world (that the more truly individual we are, the more universal we are).
Artistic and nature based methodologies will be applied to sensitize to the unfolding nature of life, to begin to notice the formative principles behind things.
Allan Kaplan
Allan Kaplan is a development practitioner, teacher and writer. He is the author of The Development Practitioner’s Handbook, Artists of the Invisible, and, most recently, Fugitive. Also of A Delicate Activism, written together with Sue Davidoff. He was the founder and former director of the Community Development Resource Association, and is currently co-founder and co-director of the Proteus initiative (together with Sue) which works out of South Africa. He …