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The DevelopMentality

By Vance Woods

Curiosity is what we're all about here at The DevelopMentality. It's a big world, and things are changing, every day, everywhere. You may find it hard to keep up. You may also find, as we do, that for every new thing you learn, a couple dozen more interest-piquing topics pop up. This is what we like to call the Research Rabbithole: an infinite progression of facts and figures stretching to the horizon and beyond. We look into it all. If you are like us, and everything is your jam, join us in our free fall into the wide world of information overload.
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Speaking Sustainably, Part I: The 5 Rules of Sustainable Dialogue

The DevelopMentalitySep 16, 2020

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Speaking Sustainably, Part II: The View from the Other Side

Speaking Sustainably, Part II: The View from the Other Side

Today, I'm joined by Bruce Evans, Assistant Director for Library Collections Services (Cataloging & Metadata) at Baylor University. We discuss the need for compassionate listening, the problem of polarization, and the importance of allowing everyone the space to speak their mind.
Sep 29, 202038:49
Speaking Sustainably, Part I: The 5 Rules of Sustainable Dialogue

Speaking Sustainably, Part I: The 5 Rules of Sustainable Dialogue

Dualogue: a discursive framework consisting of two or more independent narratives simultaneously and exclusively performed. Increasingly, these are the terms on which we interact with one another, talking around, at, over, and against. So how do we overcome the antagonistic, short-term thinking that characterizes contemporary civil and political discourse? The answer: sustainable speech.
Sources:
Alan Watts, The Way of Zen (New York: Pantheon, 1957).

Chögyam Trungpa, Orderly Chaos: The Mandala Principle, edited by Sherah Chödzin (Boston: Shambhala, 1991).
Chao Lun: The Treatises of Seng-Chao, translated and edited by Walter Liebenthal (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1968).
Thich Nhat Hanh, Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers (New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2000).
Mark Freeman, The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Listening Beyond the Self (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2014).
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind (Boston: Weatherhill, 2005).
David N. Perkins, Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2014).
Thich Nhat Hanh, Interbeing: Commentaries on the Tiep Hien Precepts, edited by Fred Eppsteiner (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1987).
Mencius, translated by D.C. Lau (London: Penguin Books, 1970).
Douglas L. Berger, Encounter of Mind: Luminosity and Personhood in Indian and Chinese Thought (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2015).
Patrick Finn, Critical Condition: Replacing Critical Thinking with Creativity (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015).
D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D.T. Suzuki, edited by William Barrett (New York, NY: Three Leaves Press, 2006).
Chögyam Trungpa, Crazy Wisdom, edited by Sherah Chödzin (Boston, MA: Shambhala, 1991).
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I'm joined by Andrew Bramsen, Associate Professor of Political Science at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN, to discuss the upcoming U.S. presidential election, what it means for the future, and all the reasons we haven't been watching.
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How do you foster community in a time when togetherness is taboo? Here in Corvallis, it's a matter of creativity: fairy doors, to be exact.
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