Learning- Seekers of Excellence

“Learning emerges from our individual and collective abilities to tap existing human capabilities and transform the forces that interfere with their expression.” Maya Angelou

As a learning junkie, nothing is as compelling to me as the light that is emitted from a person when learning is occurring. It has always been my handhold in the darkness. For sixty-two years, I’ve followed that glow from playgrounds to corporate boardrooms, from Harlem to the Hague. I’ve pursued it through graduate degrees in psychology and education, through the professions of classroom teacher, psychotherapist, trainer of trainers, educational consultant, corporate consultant. It doesn’t matter what labels were attached to me--what has always drawn me forward is my desire to be around that radiance, to foster it, to encourage it and study the conditions that generate and direct it.

Learning is so much more than a transfer of information. It can mean wholeness, empowerment, actualization, liberation. Observe any young child any place in the world and you will find a seeker of excellence built into their DNA. They embody this inherent impulse in their rampant curiosity about themselves and in their world, the way they naturally follow their interests and rhythms, seek out and risk experimentation, honor their dreams and daydreams, consider mistakes as information rather than something wrong. Children have taught me that learning is discovering that something is possible.