Category: history

#rhizo14, aaron johannes, advocacy, art, celebration, community living, disability, education, facilitation, graphic facilitation, history, innovation, leadership, rhizomatic, shelley nessman, story, strategic planning, theory, thinking, workshops1 Comment

What is the work?

Aaron

  Dan Pontefract, author of Flat Earth: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization, was having a contest.   It is over, so I won’t win a book, but I’m going to go buy his book anyway as I really like the way he is thinking about work and connections…  and it gave me a chance to process some of what I was thinking about over the last weeks and last week in particular.  The question he’s asking is “How do you define the word ‘work.’” I was in Toronto taking a refresher course in a planning method we use a … Continue reading What is the work?

aaron johannes, art, education, history, innovation, parenting, publication, technology, writing1 Comment

my prize winning entry: “A Personal Evolution Towards New Media”

Aaron

So, kinda thrilling – the first thing I’ve sent out to a publisher for several years and I won first prize 🙂 (which paid for great new shoes while holidaying in London).   It is also my first publication in an academic journal, through Athabasca University’s MA-IS program.   You can read the whole journal from this link, or you can read my creative non-fiction work here.   Those who know me will recognise some re-occuring themes in my fascination with how Web 2.0 reflects our culture, parenting and personal narrative mythology as reflection. Continue reading my prize winning entry: “A Personal Evolution Towards New Media”

aaron johannes, celebration, community, education, facilitation, family, history, innovation, leadership, minorities, music, thinking, travel, workshopsLeave a comment

Standing-Beautiful-Like-The-Sun at Wanuskewin

Aaron

I’ve been spending a great deal of time questioning the idea of teaching and traditional education lately (though this is really the theme of most of my working life), and part of what’s been interesting for me in this is approaching a couple of events in which I’ll prepare curricula with teaching partners and then spend a few days presenting, teaching, learning.   I’m also at the end of completing a graduate degree in adult education and equity studies and, as they should be, a number of things are falling into place – perhaps as questions and ideas about processes rather … Continue reading Standing-Beautiful-Like-The-Sun at Wanuskewin