Theme: Discipline
This newsletter explores the theme of discipline, self-regulation and Transdisciplinarity.
SPoR Convention Canberra 15-19 September If you want to learn about SPoR, this gathering is for you.
This year we are holding the SPoR Convention in Canberra Australia 15-19 September.
You are welcome to come for the whole week or any number of days you wish.
The week is structured into two module groups: Day 1 & 2 on a theoretical base and days 3 & 4 on a very practical basis. The middle day is a semiotic day of learning through semiotics, visual and verbal learning and feeling what learning is.
The theme for the convention is Critical Thinking, which is NOT about brain work or brain cognition but rather, embodied and Transdisciplinary thinking. This means that critical thinking is much more than rationality or ‘thinking’ in a computational sense. BTW, computers don’t ‘think’, neither does AI.
Computational ‘thinking’ is not conscious thinking.
Video Conversation on the Nature of Discipline
The idea of discipline has several meanings and draws a variety of responses from people.
Whenever we do our popular Safety Observations and Conversations program (https://www.humandymensions.com/services-and-programs/mirisc-workshop/), we ask people to tell
us about perceptions of discipline in relation to school. Invariably people decide, without prompting, to speak about punishment. But discipline can mean much more than this, the visual map above helps to map the territory.
The word ‘discipline’ can also mean and be associated with: a branch of knowledge, a system of rules, a code of behaviour, a form of training/habit, ritual, the ability to persevere, goal setting,
psychology of goals, motivation, mental toughness, following rules, management, conformity, diligence, virtue, rigour, work ethic, order, a necessity for ethical practice, the nature of power,
military honour or, a form of self-control/self-regulation. We can think of discipline in negative and positive ways, as performance and non-performance or disobedience.
In this video, Matt Thorne (Adelaide South Australia) and Dr Long, decided to have a discussion about discipline and its implications for work, performance and risk:
Do you have any thoughts? Please share them below