International Transformative Learning Association
Linden West and John Dirkx
John and Linden discuss their experience and perspective of transformative learning in a powerful and far-ranging dialogue. They discuss transformative learning in relation to many different contexts and concepts, including:
spaces for transformation;
power in group dynamics;
the need for both individual and collective in a meaningful change; intersubjective reflection;
transformative learning as everyday lifelong learning;
transformative learning as a stance toward being in the world; psychoanalysis;
mythopoetic nature of the psyche;
sensitivity towards complexity of learning;
transformative learnings' alignment with mindfulness;
critique of and concern about transformative learning today;
how to meaningfully engage with soul work and the inner destructive qualities;
transformative learning as realisation of transpersonal self-knowledge;
transformative learning as hard and challenging work.