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  • Daniel Dombrowski - Education and the Homo Ludens Hypothesis - Process Explorations - Center for Process Studies

    Education and the Homo Ludens Hypothesis | Daniel Dombrowski

    Process Explorations

    The philosopher George Allan—in three well-written books in philosophy of education—applies the Homo Ludens hypothesis to education, especially to higher education. College education at its best is a type of dynamic play. Allan’s contribution to the Homo Ludens hypothesis has been underappreciated. Allan often relies on the process thought found in Alfred North Whitehead’s classic Aims of Education. The goal of the present presentation is to explore the important contribution Allan can make toward the understanding of the contemporary crumbling of the walls of the cathedral of learning, to use his dramatic metaphor.

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  • Lourdes Arguelles and John Freese - Dementia Dharma - Caregiving Sentient Beings with Neurodegenerative Diseases - Process Explorations - Center for Process Studies

    Dementia Dharma: Caregiving Sentient Beings with Neurodegenerative Diseases | Lourdes Arguelles and John Freese

    Process Explorations

    In this session, Lopon Dorje Khandro and Rev. Dr. Dhammabodhi will briefly explore critical intersections between Buddhism, New Paradigm Sciences, and the Practicalities of Dementia Caregiving in the United States. They will focus on how to maintain a radical compassionate caregiving presence, insure the provision of essential and non-exploitative care, and recognize the “luminous mind” while serving humans and animals whose physical capacities, cognitive functions, and identities are fading. The presenters will also share their main Buddhist and caregiving practices such as Tonglen (sending and taking), Chod (cutting practice), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and some new and old visual, sound, touch and olfactory therapies.

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  • A Process-Relational Approach to Teaching Science with Christie Byers | Center for Process Studies

    Process Pop-Up: A Process-Relational Approach to Teaching Science

    In this process pop-up, Christie Byers will explore what it might mean to teach science as if the world were alive. Drawing on Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy, she shares an approach to elementary science education that shifts away from viewing nature as inert and mechanical, and toward experiencing it as relational and participatory, a community of diverse subjects infused with value. Rather than teaching Whitehead’s ideas explicitly, Byers designs her course as an embodied enactment of them, using an “as if” approach, “as if” we are indeed living in a Whiteheadian cosmos, inviting preservice teachers to encounter science through wonder, aesthetic experience, and direct engagement with the more-than-human world.

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  • Process Pop-Up: Made by Love, For Love: Reimagining God, Power, and Faith with Michael M. Rose | Center for Process Studies

    Process Pop-Up: Made by Love, For Love: Reimagining God, Power, and Faith

    In his new book, Made by Love, for Love, author Michael M. Rose invites readers to reimagine Christianity—not as a drama of sin and obligatory appeasing sacrifice, but as a cosmic love story still unfolding. Far from cracking under the weight of an expanding universe, the gospel becomes more radiant, more necessary, and more astonishing than ever. In this Process Pop-Up, Rose will introduce his project and invite conversation.

  • Bill Gayner and Greg Walkerden - Taking up Whitehead’s Invitation to Explore Our Immediate Experience - Process Explorations - Center for Process Studies

    Taking up Whitehead’s Invitation to Explore Our Immediate Experience | Bill Gayner

    Process Explorations

    Eugene Gendlin’s work—which Whitehead had a seminal impact on—help us move past the fallacy of misplaced concreteness. Heeding felt understanding gives us a disciplined resource for creative, adaptive thought and action. Bill Gayner will explore this experientially in a guided contemplation using as a starting point an excerpt from Whitehead’s chapter on philosophic method in Adventures of Ideas. We will then reflect on and discuss the experience including perhaps how these kinds of micropractices can scale up to support professional sensibilities and reflective learning, providing a platform for ongoing adaptation and innovation, and the light this may shed on Whitehead’s own practice.

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  • ORTCON26: An Open & Relational Theology Conference | Center for Open & Relational Theology

    ORTCON26: An Open & Relational Conference

    Held at the beautiful Grand Targhee Resort in the Grand Teton mountains of Wyoming, ORTCON26 is an in-person conference exploring topics in Open and Relational Theology. ORTCON26 brings together scholars, leaders, pastors, and activists. The conference provides workshops, lectures, and social activities to deepen relationships and present new ways of imagining God and the universe.

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