Welcome to the Synergy Network the NEWS PAGE ONE E
Whole Systems, and the Dreamtime: A new
conceptual framework or paradigm: Tools, Links and Comments Page E
<a HREF="synergy2.htm">work NEWS Page ONE C** Cooperative Education -
Planning with Nature, groups and examples of classroom practice,
<BR><B><h4> The real deficit - the National debt in education: Review of
Common Cents by Tim Penny and Major Garrett and What Students
Abroad Are Expected to Know; <BR><B><h4> The problems are clear BUT what can
I tell you ?
Policy.htm is the general stuff on
public
affairs and the state of the world and nation
I think I will put your comments in these files and
leave the News pages alone - another effect of the need to remain
stable
for the search engines to do their job.
RE: Stumbling Toward Babylon:
I see what Bill Gates means when he talks about the
power of "file managers", where the INTERNET is better
organized
then my own files.
The Alta Vista of Digital knows more about my
files
than I do. I am not good at files. I can't find stuff or know
what files
contain. A powerful search engine does it for me.
The tower of babble - a vast network of links - you
don't need lists, or even bookmarks - just ask and it shall open,
knock
and it will answer. Ten billion words in ten million documents in
ten seconds
- This implies something about how I set up the pages - titles
and changes
and moves..
Subject: Re: CHristian Right --> From: "Peter
E. Pflaum386428+7924" <pflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rrpflaump@cfl.rr.com
9 May 1995 09:24:25 EST -->
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Synergy
in Human Groups Beyond the blame game two: When people get
together and
"really" talk about what is important to them,
something miraculous
transpires.
The whole of the group (team) becomes more than the
sum of
the parts, the individual grows and so does the collective.
People widen
their own horizons and increase their own opportunities, when
they listen
and relate to the sincere viewpoints and visions of others.
The
process
of team building thrives in a culture that supports trust and
open communications.
Critical to all successful institutions (schools, business,
family, government,
etc.) are scripts (stories) that promote or destroy trust and
profound
conversations. Information technology has make Synergy our most
important
product. A country that competes, a educational program that
"takes
off", a company that creates the future, a family that
wins/wins;
all have used the endless power of synergy, which like love is
not used
up, there is an endless supply.
Abraham H. Maslow in Chapter
14 of "
The
Further Reaches of Human Nature", (1971) describes how he
was introduced
to the idea of Cultural Synergy by Ruth Benedict in 1941.
"Ruth Benedict
tried in her last years to overcome and to transcend the doctrine
of cultural
relativity.. her work (Patterns of Culture) was essentially an
essay in
holism." Some cultures are secure, friendly and open, others
insecure,
closed, surly, nasty and anxious. She spoke of low and high moral
tone
in cultures, some based on hate and aggression and others on
spiritual
qualities like the Zuni.
The question is why and so what ?
The
societies
with high synergy transcend the polarity between self interest
and unselfish
altruism.
A society, school, business, family with high
synergy is one
in which virtue pays (Page 194, A.H. Maslow, 1971). In "the
learning
organization" Peter Senge (
The fifth discipline,
1.) personal mastery,
(inputs)
2.) mental models, (outcomes)
3.) shared vision,
(feedback)
4.)
team learning, (interaction in complex open systems)
5.)
systems thinking;
seeing the territory as different and more than the map, and
creating a
higher language of discourse);
Peter describes how respect for
guiding
beliefs and social habits promote a wide distribution of power
while increasing
self- discipline. Individual awareness increases with cooperation
and practice
as a team. Factors that promote team building discussed in Maslow
include
siphoning vs. funneling of wealth and power. In the high synergy
society
(business) good and power are distributed so there is a high
level of security,
while in the insecure low energy societies (business or schools)
wealth,
power, knowledge is funneled so the rich use their power to
attract more
information, power and wealth.
The poor students fail the good
students
get all the prizes, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Another
factor is a comforting vs. a frightening religion.
The gods,
spirits and
ghosts are benevolent or they can be ruthless, terrifying and
mean.
Victor
Frankl, (Man's Search for Meaning), Eric Fromm, Steven Covey
(Seven Habits
of Effective People), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's theory of
"flow states",
and Maslow all describe various meaning of Transcendence (Maslow,
1971
page 259).
1.) Basic Physiological (food, water, shelter) 2.)
Safety and
Security (order, protection from harm) 3.) Belonging and Love
(affection,
acceptance, friendship) 4.) Esteem ( self and others) and 5.)
Self-actualization
(being there) and 6. Transcendence (self forgetting, absorbed,
fascinated,
concentrated on something outside oneself; time, place, culture,
limits,
habits, having a vision, meditation, religious experience, of the
past,
ego, death, mystical experience, etc.) Transcendence is to except
the natural
world as it is, to let it and you be itself in the Taoistic
fashion. (Maslow
page 261, 1971) Transcendence is synergy in social groups. One
can't not
exist without the other they are mutually dependent. We are
social animals
that learned to learn in troops, clans, packs and villages,
cities and
nations.
Our social-biology is programmed to find security and
joy in our
social surrounding. When society fails, we have increased
offensive, aggression
and angry talk not conversations, accusations not communications,
blame
not mutual aid, strikes and school dropouts, crime and teenage
mothers,
et al. In society as Ruth Benedict has said everything effects
everything.
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From:
Karen McComas Sent: Sunday, January 28, 1996 8:49 AM To: Peter
Pflaum Subject:
Re: MUWAC-L: pflaumppflaumppflaumppflaump@cfl.rr.com
join
Peter,
Received
your subscription request for muwac-l.
The list is an internal
list for
wac business, but I appreciate your interest. Have to tell you
how much
I enjoy and appreciate your input to some of the lists I'm on
(stlhe, cl,
I forget which ones). Were you the one who gave the idea about
making
groups
according to the Meyers Briggs
personality types? If so, thanks a million. I tried that and my
students
love it! We made groups on the first day and the first group
activity was
to list their strengths and weaknesses as students and to make a
list of
any help they might need to capitalize on their strengths to
minimize their
weaknesses. Yesterday we did another group activity...guess who
finished
first? Our procrastinators (self-labelled) group...what a moral
victory
for them!
From:
Alternative Approaches to Learning Discussion List on behalf of
Kirk Wesley
Hunt Sent: Friday, January 26, 1996 11:52 AM To: Multiple
recipients of
list ALTLEARN Subject: Re: Getting students ready for cooperative
learning
