Wow Bernie - that was quick - our messages just crossed!  I was  
working this morning with Nigel Harrisson (and Marie Huxtable and  
Chris Jones ) on a symposium proposal for the BERA Conference in  
September. The deadline for paper presentations and main conference  
Symposia is this Friday. I'll post the url for the proposal when it  
is submitted on Friday.  I do hope as many participants as possible  
will put in a proposal for BERA 07 and the Practitioner Researcher  
day. A number of us from Bath are staying on to the Practitioner- 
Researcher sessions on the Saturday.  It would be good to meet up 5-8  
September - the details are at http://www.bera.ac.uk .  Nigel is  
Inclusion Manager for Bath and North East Somerset and what I'm  
hoping is that by September, or sooner, you will be able to see  
visual narratives that you recognise as expressing these qualities of  
compassion, humanness and love in explanations of educational  
influence in learning.  Many thanks for sharing the values of  
conviviality, inclusion, commitment, life-affirming energy, humanness  
and unity that you are discerning being expressed through the video  
clips. This really helps to strengthen my sense of shared discernment  
that is so important to my recognition of the social validity in a  
shared understanding.

Eleanor I'm imagining that you are feeling some pleasure in seeing  
that the video of the BERA 06 session on Love at Work that you  
convened is helping to enhance the flow of love at work as a living  
standard of judgment in the seminar?

Marian - I'm also feeling a strong connection, as Bernie is, between  
what we are seeing as Nigel's passion for compassion and your own  
expression of compassion in the video-clips of your thesis? Again, if  
others are feeling this shared discernment I think this helps in  
enhancing the flow of a passion for compassion as a living standard  
of judgment in practitioner-research as well as in the practical  
influence of contributing to the creation of a world of educational  
quality. I also want to share my own insight that Bernie's living  
theory of practice of social justice, communicated through her thesis  
at http://www.jeanmcniff.com/bernieabstract.html has legitimated an  
inclusional understanding of social justice as a living standard of  
judgment.

Love Jack.

On 17 Jan 2007, at 22:06, Bernie Sullivan wrote:

> Apologies - I hit the send button by mistake! Here are the values I  
> was about to list as being evident in the video clips:
>   Conviviality - in the clips of Jack, Peter and Jean
>   Inclusion - in the clips of Alan, Nigel, Marie and JeKan
>   Commitment - in the clips of Jack and Maggie
>   Life-affirming energy in the clips of Jack, marie and Jean
>   Humanness - in the clips of Yaakub and Nigel
>   Unity - in the clips of Alan, Marie and Jean.
>
> I was particularly impressed with the video clip of Nigel - about  
> whom I know nothing, not even his surname - but in listening to him  
> speak, I could discern compassion, humanness and love all bound  
> together and embodied in him - an example of what Marian Naidoo (I  
> think!) calls 'a passion for compassion'.