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school is not a synonym of education

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Week 33, 2012
Joensuu, Finland

Mónica, a friend of mine in México, sent me a link to a documentary produced by reevo.org which I highly recommend to watch. Specially for those who are interested in learning.

For me the documentary made resonance to my research in HCG. I confess this research has been my life, my dream. Maybe for that reason, when I watched the documentary some emotional tears escape, because it is full of truth:

  • Learning is fun and enjoyable.
  • We can do incredible things by enriching individual’s dreams, and desire to live.

There is much more, but my personal summary is:
Life is learning and learning is life,
and we can enjoy A LOT while we are alive! 🙂

 

surprise: 8 pianos

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Week 30, 2012
Wels, Austria

The beginning of this story starts in a snug dinner hosted by Bettina and Bernhard.  I believe at the beginning I was mainly listening and making questions.  I was in a discovery mood. For those who know me, might not be a surprise 🙂

Listen to the passion and dreams from others,  allows me to detect life,  specially if I’m on the correct frequency.  Additionally, we say much beyond words, and when one expresses from one’s passion and dreams, the message is intense. When we learn to listen, I think our communication is enriched. But I am still a pupil on this,  I admit it.

Anyway, we started the conversation about what type of music we liked. Thus, at some point we were invited to watch the video from the Verbier Festival & Academy 10th Anniversary: Piano Extravaganza (brief clip below).

Humans.
Oh man!
Humans. We are amazing!  For good and for bad, but we are amazing creatures, and each individual is magic!

Unexpectedly, the evening changed for me.

I started, or continued,  my “reset” process. I refer to this, when one is able to re-connect with one’s internal happiness, when life makes sense again, and the outside world is not  important anymore.  The greatest thing of this reset events and moments, is that despite nothing outside me has changed,  my cheeks hurt of smiling 🙂 and I cannot stop it.

When one feels how life emerges from within and then it connects with the outside. All makes sense. It is just an awesome feeling 🙂 I wish everybody would live this constantly, including me 😛 .

Oh well! now to FOCUS 🙂 – yeap, I need to work – but with a BIG smile! 🙂

PS. Thank you to my hosts, for the evening and for sharing themselves with us. Also I want to thank to Claire who has enriched my life through the concerts, and she has taught me to appreciate music from a different perspective and also thanks to Mikko who teaches me constantly to care and to listen beyond words.

I need to write also about my crazy trip to Nice, which also let me smiling. Maybe my reset process started there 😉  Hmmmm… if I could live from reset processes to reset process I would not mind  😉 .

it matters what you discover

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Week 6, 2012
Joensuu, Finland

Preparing a lecture is actually challenging.  For me, the defiance is also personal because I enjoy to learn and I often dislike to be sitting in a lecture room.

On Monday night, a friend of mine,  Alia,  post a link to Noam Chomsky interview:  The purpose of Education.  Often I discover something when I listening to Chomsky, and this talk is not an exception. One of the multiple things that call my attention in this talk is: the idea of education that promotes enlightenment. My own path as a learner has been a bumping process of searching, exploring, trying and reflecting.  I am also in congruence that the technology is neutral.  Oh well, better listen to the talk.

From the last comments Chomsky mention an anecdote that help me to harmonize myself on how to prepare the courses: “what it matters is what YOU discover”