An objective, reflective perspective on the subject of effective affective
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by Dwayne Hodgson
"...[O]ne gift that I’ve gained from my work with Dialogue Education™ is a growing awareness of how the affective learning domain frames and reinforces our learning."
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Bringing Our Heart to Meetings
by Christine Little
"There is a myth that the most effective people check their emotions at the door when they go into a meeting to plan, evaluate, analyze or decide. They do not. But in organizations we have gotten very good at masking our feelings. This gets us into all kinds of trouble."
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Face-to-face and heart-to-heart: Where real learning takes place
by Amanda Moore
"It is one thing to hear the facts and figures about the genocide, but to come face-to-face with someone who has lived through such pain and suffering, and developed the resolve to forgive is extremely powerful. It touches the heart in a way that has the profound ability to transform ones thoughts, attitudes and behaviors."
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Eradicating Illiteracy through Mother-Tongue Education
by Catherine Macnab
"If you can read
and write, you can learn to do, and be, anything”.
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Teaching about Alzheimer’s by Talking from the Heart
by Kathy Hickman
"Over the past year, we have been redesigning the First Link® Learning Series with a Dialogue Education™ approach. What we are finding is that by incorporating opportunities for people to talk about their experiences within the learning design, learners feel both honoured and able to express how dementia is impacting them – a great need is being met in an intentional way."
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It’s All in Your Head: How brain processes are tied to the heart
by Peter Perkins
Researchers have found that the chemical in the brain that gives us the feeling of love is what tends to shift neural circuitry in our brains. In other words, it is the feeling of love that helps us change our mind, literally.
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Telling True Stories
by Valerie Uccellani
Global Learning Partners, Inc. (GLP) has worked for the last couple of years with the Health Communication Partnership (HCP) to help reduce the continuing risk of HIV infection faced by people in Ethiopia. Valerie Uccellani, CDET and GLP partner, reports
some of the project's successes and lessons learned to date.
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Right on the Money
by Michael Feir
When I think of things I’ve learned which truly changed me as a person, I invariably think of experiences where control of the outcome wasn't completely in a teacher's hands.
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Hearts in Harmony
by Rev. Angela Taylor Perry
"...I developed a workshop that has now become an interactive dialogue-based curriculum series called
'Hearts in Harmony'. I designed it with the belief that learning comes when we speak from the heart. I work hard to ensure that enough trust and safety is present so that true dialogue can happen – transforming hearts and lives."
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Interesting Links
The Alzheimer’s First Link
