A Hidden Wholeness Summary

In Palmer’s (2004) book A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life he states that in “the circle of trust, we practice the paradox of ‘being alone together’ of being present to one another as a ‘community of solitudes’” (p.54) in order to protect the space for the soul. Protection of this space can be accomplished through the concentration on focal concerns as described by Boers (2012) in that “focal concerns are objects, activities, or practices with three characteristics: commanding presence, continuity, and centering power” (p. 24). These are also easily translated into the classroom as guiding principals as to how the teacher should be characterized in front of the students. The teacher, embracing these principals, is able

Transformation, as defined, is a thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance. When applied to adult learning through the auspices of transformation theory (Mezirow, 1991) transformation becomes an attempt to determine the processes or frames of references used to view and interpret our experiences and change those, specifically. In this, the consideration is not so much for what experiences are engaged rather how those experiences are interpreted into personal meaning perspectives; a person’s Weltanschauung, or worldview. Drawing on the initial definition of what transformation should be this worldview would undergo a thorough change from the meaning perspectives that are based on distorted

It is very easy to lead a team meeting with where we are falling short and how much work we have to do to get to where we need to be. It is obvious faculty are disgruntled when they leave that meeting and feeling unappreciated for the efforts they have put in. After learning about how the brain processing the positive and negative comments I will not offer feedback or redirection from appraisals or observations the way I was mentored to do in the past. My approach will be sandwiched with praise and criticism as suggested by Nass and Yen by “mixing praise and criticism, offer[ing] broad praise, brief criticism focused on specific steps toward improvement, and then lengthy and detailed positive remarks” (2012, p. 55). I do believe this will make the faculty feel better about what they are doing and what they need to do to move forward but not feel beat up when we talk about