Center for Transformative LearningThe Center for Transformative Learning is dedicated to fostering Transformative Learning through research, symposia, and networks that encourage and inspire both individual and collective learning. The Center focuses on the praxis of Transformative Learning in multiple domains and at multiple levels. Praxis refers to the ways in which we weave together theory and practice, action and reflection, in the service of learning.
The Center's work on the praxis of Transformative Learning is organized via projects in the following domains: Education, Business, Psychotherapy, Spirituality, Social Change and Civil Society, Governence and the Law, and the arts. The Center's Fellows practice transformative learning in each of these distinct domains.
The Center offers a Certificate in Transformative Coaching.
Upcoming International Conference
The Center for Transformative Learning is hosting the 10th International Conference on Transformative Learning on November 1-4, 2012 in San Francisco. The first Transformative Learning Conference was convened in 1998 at Columbia University. Since that time, the conference has reconvened on a regular basis hosted by a different institution each time. The last conference took place in the spring of 2011 in Athens, Greece.
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Tranformative Learning in Higher Education
The purpose of higher education is to provide the occasion for ignition.
-Thomas Merton
Within higher education, both students and faculty are under intense pressure to acquire and transmit ever-increasing information. These circumstances result in a focus on competencies associated with informational learning. However, the performance deficiencies of higher education graduates as professionals suggests that something vital is missing. The future calls for integrated competencies that enable professionals to acquire and manage vast domains of information, effectively enough to participate in wise and creative initiative. Transformative Learning prepares graduates for this challenge.
The Center seeks to foster dialogue, symposia, and networks that encourage and inspire students, faculty, and adminstration, as well as the public, to embark on this journey. Meridian offers a Certificate Program in Transformative Learning, and Master's and Doctoral Degrees in Education emphasizing transformative education.
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it,
the loss of all that gave one identity.
-James Baldwin