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    Searching for Place in an Increasingly Hyper-Digital and Disembodied World

    Internet dependency and the growth of AI reveal a choice-point about place and belonging: to be natural or remain in programmed states of collective trauma.

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    Manifesting a Vision for Education: Creating a Social Vision Board

    How can a vision that’s bigger than my life be manifested into the world? Let’s start by bringing the “vision” itself into the world with a social vision board.

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    Disturbing Institutional Narratives of Inclusion, Diversity, and Belonging

    To honestly work toward inclusion, diversity, and belonging, we need the courage to look deep inside to find and heal what keeps us from trusting our hearts.

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    A Philosophy for Teaching and Learning the Lessons of Life

    Through the exchange of teaching and learning, we emerge into the world with a greater sense of security to be ourselves and contribute to life.

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    Finding Home Through Poignant Landscapes

    Humans constantly yearn for home. If being at home means to belong, then poignant landscapes are the experiences that remind us that we always belong to life. 

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    The Nature of Culture: Moving Beyond Binaries

    Within the nature of culture is a choice to self-judge or self-love. To move beyond the destructiveness of human society, we must heal our shame of being human.

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