Building Living Thinking into a new Social Practice
A meeting of social practitioners who have entered into some relationship with The Proteus Initiative’s ideas before.
(A One-week residential at Towerland Wilderness, August 2011)
The Proteus Initiative has been working for some years towards introducing a Goethean approach of living thinking as the underpinning of a genuinely facilitative social practice. Over these years various practitioners have participated in various programmes, others have developed relationships of varying depths in various ways, and some have gone on to develop this practice further. This week at Towerland Wilderness began to explore the experiences, observations and questions living amongst those social development practitioners who chose to come. The Proteus Initiative facilitated this process; Craig and Henrike Holdrege of The Nature Institute were present as participant observers, to assist in taking the discussions further, to provide insight and challenge, to question assumption and encourage development, as well as themselves to learn from this coming together of Goethean sensibility with social intervention. The event was highly successful and a paper, as well as further work that should result from this paper, will be forthcoming shortly.
(A One-week residential at Towerland Wilderness, August 2011)
The Proteus Initiative has been working for some years towards introducing a Goethean approach of living thinking as the underpinning of a genuinely facilitative social practice. Over these years various practitioners have participated in various programmes, others have developed relationships of varying depths in various ways, and some have gone on to develop this practice further. This week at Towerland Wilderness began to explore the experiences, observations and questions living amongst those social development practitioners who chose to come. The Proteus Initiative facilitated this process; Craig and Henrike Holdrege of The Nature Institute were present as participant observers, to assist in taking the discussions further, to provide insight and challenge, to question assumption and encourage development, as well as themselves to learn from this coming together of Goethean sensibility with social intervention. The event was highly successful and a paper, as well as further work that should result from this paper, will be forthcoming shortly.