New for 2008, I’m publishing to this blog all posts about: adult learning, experiential and transformational learning, organizational anthropology/psychology and social learning. This includes my own and links to others’ research, resources, web 2.0 tools, and lots of food for thought and grist for the mill.

I’ve created this 2nd blog apart from squareone-explorations to differentiate constructive content from the much more wide-ranging and at times mildly peevish critical commentary available on explorations. Teaching cartoons will be published on both blogs.

Also, transformativetools allows me to carry over older content from the prior versions of the main squareone-learning web site, and to link to new content published on the main site.

The most exciting prospect will be to leverage wordpress and various add-ons to bring more multi-media into play here.

My (Stephen’s) profile:

I’m a designer and facilitator of experiential learning tools fashioned for the purpose of transformative learning. I use a model principally configured from the research and practice of David A. Kolb, Jack Mezirow and Paolo Freire. The model’s components are:

• intention (encompasses the entire process)
• exploration (of old and new data, affect, intuition)
• discovery (resolving what is of interest; sympathetic, antipathetic)
• insight (gripping; located on the continuum between worth further investigation and a-ha!

The context for this work is collaborative exploration and its purposes include problem solving, creation of new possibilities, instantiating alternative perspectives, and open-ended adventuring.

I’ve been at this since 1996. As well, I am an independent researcher and student of human nature.