Learning - by being Open to Discomfort

     "Wong, in a course on ‘Identity & Diversity’, used simple breathing exercises to extend the ‘limits of critical pedagogy’ and cultivate ‘listening silence’ - defined as ‘a space where automatic mental activities of moulding, ordering & ideologizing is set aside, to make room for our hermeneutic effort to engage in genuine dialogues’.

     She found this enabled students to be open to and stay with the feelings of discomfort being experienced in order to create ‘ . . . dialogic communications and relations’."

       Lynn R. Mindfulness in social work education. Social Work Education 2010; 29(3): 289–304.

     Our tendency to automatically avoid discomfort causes us to miss critical learning opportunities. See:
http://www.johnlovas.com/search?q=discomfort

http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/search?q=discomfort

http://healthyhealers.blogspot.ca/search?q=discomfort

 

Old Halifax - January 30, 2014