Hi
I am planning a retreat called ‘ Learning to see- a retreat to Awakening
the Aesthetic Awareness’ at Nilambur from 20th Feb to 24th Feb 2013 (Wednesday to Sunday).
Link to the
last years event is www.
This retreat is in a way the culmination of my work related
to recovering authenticity, originality in terms of aesthetic sensibility and
cognitive process.
This has been developed from my past 20 odd years of work
(learning from) with artisans and children. (www.kumbham.org,
www.rediscoveringchildhood.org
Two parallel explorations I have been engaged has been to
understand how we have been damaged – homogenized, cloned, de skilled, fragmented,
alienated- by the modern education and other conditioning institutions and
tools– market, hospitals, TV, news etc. and how as a biological organism born
with tools to make sense of its world understands it and inhabit.
School prepares us for processing and storing information by
excessive importance given to memorization and development of conscious and
instrumentalist reasoning. These two skills seems to be incapable of
perception, creativity which is what is required in the realm of unknown.
This 5 day workshop do not claim to solve any of that but
would probably initiate a journey towards that end.
I am attaching the flyer and registration form about the
event.
Kindly pass this on to any one who would be interested in
attending the event.
Jinan
Last june (2011) I also
started an initiative near Pune called re imagining schools which is to work
with a school to totally redesign the very concept of school. See the link www.reimaginingschools.
