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Fourfold Learning and Change

Levels of Learning and Change • Thought Leader Interview Project • The Split between Matter and Mind • Two Sources and Types of Learning • Organizational Learning’s Blind Spot

Levels of Learning and Change

In chapter 1, “Facing the Fire,” I recounted how, as a young boy in Germany, I was literally shaken into a new level of experience by our family farm’s fire. In retrospect, I see that experience as a gift life handed me: the gift of experiencing a profound shift in my attention field, in the way I attend to the world. That’s the easy part.

The difficult part is to perform this shift in the context of groups ...

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