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Occupy Your Brain: On Power, Knowledge, & the Re-Occupation of Common Sense – Carol Black

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/occupy_your_brain_on_power_knowledge_and_the_reoccupation_of_common_sense/ This is an absolutely brilliant article. ‘……it becomes quite interesting not only to look at what your children are required to learn in school, but at what they are not required to learn. While your kids are very busy … Continue reading →

Posted in awakening, civil rights, cognitive, communication, conflict, consent, creativity, cultural questions, dependence, Disconnection, diversity, ecological, ecological issues, education, empowerment, equality, ethics, external locus, internal locus of evaluation, natural world, non-conforming, organismic experiencing, paradigm shift, parenting, perception, political, power, power and powerlessness, regulation, risk, spirituality, supervision, sustainability, teaching, transformation, trust, values & principles, vulnerability | Tagged activism, Adderall, Adivasi-Dalit Ektha Abhijan, Adivasis, affordable counselling exeter, authority, autonomy, “the sphere of intellect and spirit”, benefits system, benevolent dictatorship, Berkana Institute, Carol Black, central authority, centralisation, centralised authority, centralization, centralized authority, centralized control over learning, centralized systems of authority, centrally-controlled education, coercive conformity, collaborative working, collective intelligence, Common School, Common Sense, community, community sharing, community traditions, compliance, compulsion in education, conformity, conscience, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, cross-cultural perspectives on education, cultural conformity, Dalits, decentralization, democracy, democratic liberty, despair, destructive economy, digital revolution, diversity, Dongria Kondh, ecological awareness, ecology, economic exploitation, economic oppression, ecosystem, education, educational authority, elders, emergence, ethical awareness, evaluation, experiential learning, experimentation, expert model, expert paradigm, external locus, free play, freedom, freedom of education, functional invisibility, Gaia, genetically modified organisms, global standards for education, globalization, GMOs, government control, hierarchies, higher authority, horizontal collaboration, horizontal learning structures, Human Rights, indigenous cultures, indigenous pedagogy, indigenous wisdom, individual control, individual freedom, innovation, institutionalized learning, learning, legacies of colonialism, local control, locus of control, locus of power, low cost counselling exeter, Matrix, mistake avoidance, modern schooling, monolithic bureaucracy, national curriculum, natural world, networking, non-hierarchical models, non-hierarchical models of collaboration, non-punitive social models, non-punitive structures, obedience, Occupy Wall Street, open network of volunteer editors, oral traditions, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, participation, person centred counselling exeter, personal freedom, political awareness, political education, political oppression, power and control, practice, publicly supported education, risk taking, ritual, SATs, Schooling the World, slave labour force, social exploitation, social inequality, socio-economic oppression, song, spiritual awareness, spirituality, standard assessment in education, standardisation in education, standardization in education, standards for education, state-administered education, state-appointed educrats, state-controlled schooling, story, supervision, sustainability, sustainable indigenous cultures, teaching, Thomas Paine, tribal cultures, trust, uniformity, unlearning, Vedanta bauxite, voluntary communities, voluntary learning, Wikipedia, William Greider, wisdom, Wonder Years, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, www.schoolingtheworld.org | Leave a comment

The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Another wonderful talk from Gabor Maté, this time coming in at a little under 19 minutes. We think he’s bang on, both in terms of what he says about addiction and in terms of the wider implications of this for … Continue reading →

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The Way that You Walk – Toko-Pa

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://toko-pa.com/2014/09/17/the-way-that-you-walk/ Click on the link for this beautiful, resonant post from Toko-Pa, about how it may serve us in our current circumstances to walk slowly…. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in beauty, consciousness, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, grief, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, natural world, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, political, reality, spirituality, sustainability, Toko-pa | Tagged aboriginal culture, aboriginal dream, aboriginal dreaming, affordable counselling exeter, ambiguity, beauty, belonging, conscious living, consciousness, counselling exeter, creativity, disconnection, dream time, dreaming, dreaming time, ecological, ecology, elder wisdom, elders, embodiment, grief, human condition, indigenous people, interconnection, low cost counselling exeter, natural world, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradigm shift, paradox, social inequality, social injustice, social justice, spirituality, sustainability, Toko-pa, Victo Ngai | Leave a comment

The Pale Blue Dot: The Sagan Series: Reid Gower

Posted on September 9, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the only home we have ever known…’. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter

Posted in conflict, consciousness, core conditions, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, ethics, human condition, interconnection & belonging, kindness & compassion, love, natural world, paradigm shift, perception, person centred, political, reality, spirituality, sustainability, wonder | Tagged belonging, consciousness, core conditions, counselling exeter, ecological, ecological issues, ecology, environmental, environmental issues, ethics, existential meaning, human condition, interconnection, kindness, meaning, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, Pale Blue Dot, paradigm shift, person-centred, perspective, reality, Reid Gower, Sagan Series, spirituality, web of life | Leave a comment

C Shaw ‘Depression is not a Disease but an Indication that Human Consciousness needs to Change’

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://vocesdetierra.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/depression-is-not-a-disease-but-an-indication-that-human-consciousness-needs-to-change/ Interesting article dated 12 August from C Shaw. We’re not entirely on board with all of it (for example the reference to ‘depression’ as ‘chemical and emotional imbalance of the brain’ – see Joanna Moncrieff on this subject), but … Continue reading →

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Paul Hawken speaking at the Garrison Institute’s 10th Anniversary Gala

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

As you may note from the tags, Paul’s short speech is wide-ranging. It’s also interesting and powerful. The sound is not great on some playbacks, but we found it was audible if you put the volume right up on You … Continue reading →

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