Hi Yaqub -  you are continuing to start new threads when responding to a previous
posting -  I put this down to you sharing your joy of exuberant possiblity! This phrase
is from an open letter to the leaders of the G8, on the front page of today's
Independent newspaper,

"Today there will be noise and music and joy, the joy of exuberant possibility. On
Friday there will be a great silence as the world awaits your verdict. Do not
disappoint us. Do not create a generation of cynics. Do not betray the desires of
billions and the hopes of the poorest of our world. Are those 50,000 people each day
to be allowed to live, or not?" (Bob Geldof, Independent Newspaper, p.1, 2nd July,
2005)

I'm associating expressions of the joy of exuberant possibility with the motivating
spiritual power of the flow of life-affirming energy. Today I can think of no more
significant activities, that are focused on the education of social formations, than
those of the musicians who are connecting our global awareness through the joy of
exuberant possibility and expressions of compassion.

In my first posting of our July threads I drew attention to the following video-clip:
http://www.jackwhitehead.com/pmjd181202400.mov  (11.63 MB)

It is in Quicktime and will take several minutes to open using broadband. If you
move the cursor along this 45 second clip I think you will see the unmistakable
expression of the joy of exuberant possibility.  While for me the source of this flow of
life-affirming energy is a mystery, I do include the flow of this energy, as a spiritual
value, in my explanations of my educational influence in my own learning, in the
learning of others and in the learning of social formations.  I'm wondering if words on
their own are sufficient to communicate the explanatory power of spirituality or
spiritual values?  Like Ram Punia I tend to focus on practice and I'm wondering if we
will need to develop multi-media accounts of our educational influences in learning
to adequately communicate the nature of these influences?

Ram's Ed.D. Thesis on The Making of an International Educator with Spiritual Values
is at http://www.bath.ac.uk/~edsajw/punia.shtml and I think you will particularly enjoy
his Chapter 10 on My Epistemology of Practice & an Emergent Living Educational
Theory.

To support my point about the importance of visual narratives for communicating the
explanatory power of spiritual values in accounts of educational influence in
learning, I'll present Alan's point about 'attuning' and holding openness' in his words:

"'submission' implies 'attuning my personal agenda
with my living space' and 'holding openness', rather than imposing closure
between my individual 'self' and 'others'. I try to bring this sense of
submission into my educational work with others as a facilitator of
learning rather than dictator of learning."

together with the embodied expression of these meanings that had a profound
influence in my own learning about inclusionality, in this video-clip:

http://www.jackwhitehead.com/rayner1sor.mov

at 36.8 MB this could take some 15 minutes to download using Broadband, but I
think you will find it worth the wait!

It is a pleasure to share this  evidence of a great educator at work on a day when
billions of people around the world are connecting through the boundaries of their
'joy of exuberant possibility' and compassion.

Love Jack.