I’m just back from three days at the Lost River spring session of Leadership in Ministry Workshop (LIM). One presentation re-visited the topic of the brain and systems theory, and one other made reference to the brain’s functioning as a way to understand one aspect of BFST.
The topic of the brain and learning continues to be of keen interest to me, especially related to learning. There is a natural connection here to the work I do at the LIM workshops in that my basic definition of learning is “learning equals change.” Most of the participants in the workshops work at one level or another to change their functioning, in their family, family-of-origin, work, or ministry. The struggle, then, may be phrased as, “What kind of education is needed to change the patterns of emotional functioning in the brain?”
Antonio Damasio, Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Neurology at the University of Southern California, is one of the leading writers and scholars about the brain. Here he spoke with about how educational experience alters the brain. See a short clip of Damasio speaking about this subject here.
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“Herblock’s Law: If it’s good, they’ll stop making it.”
