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    The dragon's pearl
    The dragon's pearl
    The dragon's pearl
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    The dragon's pearl

    By Flavia Vivacqua

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    A deep journey through the origins of the Dragon Dreaming method and philosophy and other contributions in Regenerative Education and co-learning processes

    In A Pérola do Dragão, we travel with Flávia Vivacqua through her sabbatical experience in which she walked her own learning path, while conducting research on innovative methodologies and philosophies that support Regenerative Education, which transforms and motivates the potential of each person.

    The author, since her first professional training, is dedicated to knowing and researching new approaches in Education and Learning, especially those that evoke collaboration, art and the connection with the ecosystem in which we live.

    In this book, she brings research on innovations in education in some parts of the world, as she found in the method and philosophy of co-creation of Dragon Dreaming projects, in the holistic learning of the Green School, in the reconnection provided by the deep ecology and the rites of passage, in creativity journeys and in the travel experience, possible paths for co-learning processes to take place.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBambual Editora LTDA
    Release dateSep 13, 2022
    ISBN9786589138204
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      The dragon's pearl - Flavia Vivacqua

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      Copyright @ 2021 Flavia Vivacqua

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      Reading the world precedes reading the word

      Paulo Freire

      To the originary peoples

      To my ancestors

      To my father and my mother

      To educators and masters

      To the new and future generations who will co-create reality and for whom I hope the contents of this book will be meaningful.

      May beauty, benevolence and love resound and embrace you, showing you the path of well-being, the common good and the regenerating well-living!

      SUMMARY

      Capa

      Title page

      Credits

      Epigraph

      Dedication

      Summary

      Preface

      Real stories with real people

      In search of the pearl

      Oceania’s winds

      Time of the pearl

      Holistic learning vision

      Dragon dreaming in the source

      Walking through uncertainty

      Ancestral pearls

      Pearl in the waters

      Reconnection and the vision of the emerging future

      Pearls in the infinite field

      Acknowledgement

      PREFACE

      The first thing that came to my mind as I read the experiences with John Croft, told by Flavia Vivacqua in this book, was an interview that Paulo Freire gave to Edney Silvestre, in New York, in the beginning of April in 1997. Edney Silvestre asked: Professor, how would you like to be known? Paulo Freire answered: This is a delightful question. From now on I’ll make this question to other people. Do you know that I have never thought about this before? But now that you challenge me, perhaps my answer will sound somewhat humble. I would like to be remembered as someone who deeply loved the world and people, animals, trees, the waters, life.

      The reader will quickly understand why I have associated these two moments. They both have to do with an education centered on people and on sustainable life. The category of sustainability, which brings together Paulo Freire and John Croft, is constituted in the fundamental basis of a new life paradigm of bem viver, of living with oneself, with the others and with nature. This is also a category that should ground education in the present context of loss of the meaning of life, as more thought is devoted to teaching and evaluation tools than to the aims of education itself.

      John Croft reveals that he faced, initially, tough days as an educator and that he was able to seek ways of overcoming difficulties based on observation, on science, on dialogue and on the universal ethics of human beings, as Freire would say. In face of the borderline cases that life challenges us with, the answer can only be found by means of attentive listening as necessary knowledge to transformative educational practices, within and outside the school. This was what John Croft did.

      The meeting of John and Paulo, in Geneva in the 1970’s, at the World Churches Council, was decisive in the creation of the Dragon Dreaming method – a social technology aiming at the empowerment of people so that they speak out their own words and build their own history – grounded on deep ecology, experienced in the culture of the original peoples, particularly the aboriginals of Australia, and referenced in authors as diverse as, to quote a few, Michael Young, Gregory Bateson, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, and many others such as Joanna Macy, Fran Peavy, David Bohm, Paulo Freire and Mahatma Gandhi, revisited here.

      As I read this book, I was impressed with John’s international, intercultural and all-round experience, which brings him close to Freire. All of Paulo Freire’s books are, in a certain way, autobiographical. The Dragon Dreaming method, by John Croft, is the result of his personal observation and experimentation, as well as of the critical reflection on his own practice. Like Paulo Freire, he values the traditional knowledge of communities, the empirical knowledge, just as elaborate as the scientific knowledge. Like Freire, he articulates theory and practice. In education, as well as in art and science, theory without practice is pure verbalism and practice without theory is pure activism.

      John Croft shows us that we can learn from the original peoples, as they bring in something that is lacking in today’s dominant educational systems: conviviality, communion, the deep and emotional relationship with mother Earth, translated into holistic cosmovision. He shows us, in detail, the great wealth of these peoples’ culture, confronting them with the poverty of a culture based on dualisms, borders, power, control, possession, property etc. He shows us that if we want to have a sustainable culture on this planet, we will have to build it based on fresh values and those are at the origin of the creation of the Dragon Dreaming method. Aboriginal culture gives us hope, says he, because the aboriginals were able to build a civilization and a culture that have lasted sustainably for 60,000 years and that have caused no damage to the environment. If they managed to do it, we shall too.

      And here lies a big dilemma of present-day education, one that very soon could lead to collapse: meritocracy and hierarchy, today dominant in education. They do not aim at emancipation, but, instead, seek the domestication and homogenization of hearts and minds, which have been annihilating the great wealth of humanity that is cultural diversity. This is an education that is not about liberation, but is about social control, says John Croft.

      He highlights Freire’s and Gandhi’s original intuitions around the self-determination of peoples and persons. They understood dialogue as the very essence of education. If we want to know something, we need to ask first. Knowledge is built together. This is why, when students receive only ready-made answers in school, if not simple recipes, they give up both school and study. Why do I have to learn the answers to questions I didn’t make?

      It seems that educational systems today have few doubts, few questions and many answers for questions nobody has made. And what motivates us to learn are our own doubts, so we all have questions to make and we seek their answers. As the zapatistas say: by asking we find the way. Asking we can build meaning for our own lives.

      I want to end this preface saying that I was very happy and honored with the invitation and that I have learned a lot. I hope that the reader of this book also likes it as much as I did. We only write prefaces for books we like.

      Moacir Gadotti

      Honorary President of Paulo Freire Institute

      Retired professor from the University of São Paulo

      REAL STORIES WITH REAL PEOPLE

      Before Diving

      Some pearls are at the very bottom and you have to dive and submerge in the intensity of a different and new everything.

      This is a book of real stories, real people, amazing and truly existent places on our planet, precious encounters and discoveries full of meaningful learning.

      A sabbatical [ 01 ] is definitely a sacred gift. An encounter with your personal mythology, a rite of passage and the keys to liberation and redemption. A life period outside a comfort zone, in an expanding situation, with a cycle of its own to happen. A learning journey that’s important to listen and give life to.

      I chose to write in narrative chunks, respecting the flow of memories that are not always linear, sometimes incomplete, sharing what I experienced, discovered and learned during a year and a half on sabbatical, living in Australia and traveling through Asia. This self-directed research led me to the encounter with The Pearl of the Dragon.

      The book is not tied to the chronology of events, although it considers my personal journey as the timeline that stitches together and relates to all the other stories, which in turn have been grouped into thematic chapters.

      I also want to highlight that the motivating subject proposed here, Regenerative Education, although important, is brand new. It is a theoretical and practical direction, without the intention in this book to present definitions or exhaust its reflection, which I still see as a horizon to be established.

      This work is far from being pedagogical or technical-methodological, but it is intended as a space-time sharing of a personal journey and the pearls found in its way, always in search of inspiration for other dreams, other projects, other processes of personal and collective learning, which encourage the beauties and challenges of genuine and powerful learning, towards a Regenerative Education.

      However, I present fundamental theoretical references and sources that corroborate what I understand to be a path to this education I talk about.

      I also know that other references could be included here, and in no way I diminish the importance of each one by not using them. I just made a selection of those that came to me in a remarkable way in my self-directed research, during my sabbatical period.

      This book is, therefore, where I investigate and integrate knowledge that stimulate and generate autonomy and co-learning, by considering natural cycles, emotional work, systemic thinking, holistic approach, personal and collective intelligences, and what is abundant in us: the immense field of caring and learning.

      In addition to this book, this research also generated the modeling of a course for educators-facilitators in co-learning, with the pilot project carried out in 2018. This theoretical and practical course recognizes the stages of holistic, project-based learning in learning and development of emotional, cognitive, relational and executive skills. I use a large repertoire of group dynamics, social technological tools and important theoretical and pedagogical references for the design of regenerative cultures and futures.

      They say that everything we seek will also find us. Typical of learning processes that are only possible in meaningful encounters, that’s how it was with Dragon Dreaming. A social technology, a method and a philosophy for the design and management of collaborative projects that presents a fourfold, integrative and universalist matrix. It starts with four main areas: Dreaming, Planning, Doing and Celebrating; and three guiding principles: personal development, strengthening communities and serving the planet; presenting in its method 16 steps capable of integrating different aspects of our lives and of a project in the best practice of the co-creation of reality. It also has its own toolset and group dynamics for different moments in the process. Its philosophy is structured on deep ecology; in cutting-edge science; on elements of the Aboriginal cultures of Oceania, including their relationship to dreams; in Paulo Freire’s pedagogy; and in Gaia and living systems theory. In this way, the Dragon Dreaming method and philosophy align and support each other as

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