What are your thoughts on organized education? I do love me some Gary V in the morning but I can only take sound bytes of him because he swears more than I do. I happened upon a bit of his last week where he named our education system as obsolete. And I couldn’t argue against it. As far as information goes – education is irrelevant. There is absolutely NOTHING out there I can’t gather information about on my own. NO – THING.
However, in terms of LEARNING, I am an external processor. I also a physical processor. The more IN my BODY I am, and the more I can workshop, witness, bounce things on and off people – socialize as I learn, laugh as I learn, get angry and frustrated as I learn, reflect as I learn while being HELD in a sacred circle, the more I retain and embody knowledge.
For some people, organized education makes sense for that.
I’m beginning to believe – not me.
I’m about to embark on a massive path of learning. I am creating a Ministry of Story, and it is sacred to me.
Sacred, like I will never ‘fight’ for it. I will LIVE it instead, with every fibre of my being. There’s nothing to fight for, it either IS or it ISNT. And there is much knowledge to be gathered.
Myth
Religion (multiple)
Indigenous Story
Kabbalah Mysticism
Shamanic Journeying
Earth Story
I will not find this in a school.
I will not find this in ‘organized education’. I will find this information only by living it.
It’s a pilgrimage. And only I know where to place my feet when I listen.
This sounds great for me because my world is in the ‘woo woo’ world (I don’t call it that, but you probably do). But what about organized education? This morning I realized that it’s not for me, but I have three sons. One got through it, another can, but one is literally coming to pieces and losing his connection to his own wisdom in it, but the system is strong, and sometimes I don’t even know what to offer him.
Because what if I’m wrong?
Organized education isn’t right for me, and never has been, but I can’t decide that for him. He’s only 16 years old.
What I know for sure is today’s systems will not sustain tomorrow’s structures.
I’m open to your thoughts.
Xxt
Tina Overbury is a core-communications specialist who works with individuals and organizations who feel called. She is a storyteller, performer, and a professional listener who works with narrative and story structure as a vehicle for human connection. Her work is rooted in Myth, Mysticism, and the practice of personal faith. She brings thirty years of collaborative storytelling in theatre, film, marketing, team based selling, and workshop facilitation. She is the founder of Live Your Best Story, a weekend retreat of deep listening held on Bowen Island, BC, Canada and is the voice and story behind TinaOLife, home to Story Stones, TinaO’s weekly online gathering of listening in to sacred stories. Tina is a proud associate of PowHERhouse media where she listens and supports the ‘stories’ of whole and integrated leaders of tomorrow.
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