Jan 16, 2020 | 2020 Newsletters, Paul Freedman
||| TIES has offered me a privileged window through which to witness some of the most personally integrated expressions of study, practice and reflection I have witnessed in education. What is it about TIES that nurtures such authenticity, vulnerability and full...
Dec 16, 2019 | 2019 Newsletters, Adolescence, Current Events, Dialogue, Integrative Learning Emphasis Areas, Julie Haagenson, Newsletter, Paul Freedman, Steven Arnold, Symposia
For two weeks in late November, a “Symposium” – a gathering of learned scholars, assembled around the relatively contemporary phenomenon of adolescence. Skillfully and heartfully guided by TIES faculty Steven Arnold and Julie Haagenson, two hundred registered...
Oct 17, 2019 | 2019 Newsletters, Adolescence, Community, Current Events, Dialogue, Faculty, Integrative Learning Emphasis Areas, Newsletter, Steven Arnold, Symposia
We approach adolescents in a different way, for our benefit and theirs. It is not that we, the adults, should invite adolescents to the table, and share our plan of the future with them. It is that we should hang out in their space, and hope to be invited to watch...
Oct 8, 2019 | 2019 Newsletters, Adolescence, Current Events, Faculty, Integrative Learning Emphasis Areas, Julie Haagenson, Newsletter, Symposia
Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching’s great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get back on the dance floor. It is the dance of the spiraling generations, in which the old empower the young with their experience...
Sep 23, 2019 | Cosmic Education, Faculty, Influencers, Lauren de Boer, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Seasonal Transitions By Marc Cobb, TIES Alumni The changing of seasons has long been a reliable marker of time. Early humans used the unwavering journey of the sun to track the hours into days — and then the days to track the sometimes subtle, often blatant...
Apr 13, 2019 | Cosmic Education, Faculty, Influencers, Lauren de Boer, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The Cosmic CitizenBy Lauren de BoerPlanet Earth, turning and turning, transmutes the rays of the Sun to a dazzling multiplicity of form and expression, an alchemy of tassel and leaf, fin and feather, eye and bone; all are progeny of a planet in reverie. And the dream...
