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Holistic Learning: 
Would You Play A One-String Guitar? 

Learning is like playing a guitar. Most of us have been trained to play one string — our rational mind. We have at least five other strings, and if we learn to play them well, and keep them properly tuned, we can make limitless music in our learning and can then go on to encourage others to do the same. Our learning potential: 1) emotional 2) relational 3) physical 4) metaphoric or intuitive 5) spiritual and 6) rational. — Virginia R. Griffin 

Download Full Paper Pdf "Would You Play A One-String Guitar?"—Virginia R. Griffin
 

Down Syndrome Research Foundation
The Down Syndrome Research Foundation empowers individuals with Down syndrome to reach their full potential throughout life.
 

 

Beyond Good and Evil

This work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil. Nietzsche, with wit and energy, turns from this critique to a philosophy that celebrates the present and demands that the individual imposes their own "will to power" upon the world.

—Friedrich Nietzsch

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Youth At Risk Foundation
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What if you thought there wasn’t a choice, or a positive path to take? What if your only guidance came from the street, where education and well-being weren’t valued? Youth need guidance, they need strong role models, they need to be surrounded by people who care.

Take a Hike engages at-risk youth through a unique combination of adventure-based learning, counseling, academics and community involvement.
 

The Canadian Association of Police Educators (CAPE) 

Promotes excellence in law enforcement training and education through the guidance of innovative research, program development, knowledge transfer, network facilitation and collaborative training initiatives.

 

Mercy Ships

Mercy Ships is an international faith-based charity with the goal of transforming the lives of the world’s forgotten poor. One by one. Our hospital ships and land-based teams provide primary medical care, relief aid and community support to some of the most impoverished people on earth, free of charge
 


The Screwtape Letters

A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life.
C.S. Lewis

Volunteer

Chris Johnston, a 22 year old university student from Belfast, signs away another summer to lead a team of young volunteers as they travel to Ethiopia to build houses for charity.  Volunteer is laced with humour, heartbreak and horror and Chris' journey will leave you questioning your own life, your achievements. 
—Gary McElkerney

The Sacred Tree

"For all the people of the earth, the Creator has planted a Sacred Tree under which they may gather, and there find healing, power, wisdom and security...'
—Classic 3rd Ed 1992 by Michael & Judie Bopp

Watoto Canada Africa: Building Future Leaders

Watoto is a holistic care program that was started as a response to the overwhelming number of orphaned and vulnerable children and women in Uganda. It is positioned to RESCUE an individual, RAISE each one as a leader in their chosen sphere of life so that they in turn will REBUILD their nation..

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada

JGI helps protect chimpanzees and conserve habitat to help people all around the world to live more sustainably and runs Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots – global youth action program

Intercultural Development 
Research Institute 
IDRInstitute: 2014 Training Calendar
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking 

Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of "The Tipping Point", campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a marriage, heart attack triage, speed dating, choking on the golf course, selling cars, and military maneuvers, he persuades readers to think small and focus on the meaning of "thin slices" of behavior. 
Malcolm Gladwell 


Exploring Culture: Exercises, Stories and Synthetic Cultures

This book truly brings Geert Hofstede's five dimensions of national culture to life.This unique training book puts the five dimensions of culture (power distance, collectivism versus individualism, femininity versus masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long term versus short term orientation) into action.
Gert Jan Hofstede, Paul B. Pedersen & Geert Hofstede


Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges 

In this ground-breaking book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways. Fundamental problems, as Einstein once noted, cannot be solved at the same level of thought that created them. What we pay attention to, and how we pay attention - both individually and collectively - is key to what we create. 
C. Otto Scharmer
 



 
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