ARTICLES BY JUDI NEAL
Trusting the Universe: The Gibb Legacy.
Written as a chapter for a book edited by Peter Vaill (forthcoming) on the people, books, and other resources that inspired people who are leaders in the Spirituality in the Workplace movement.
"I remember walking down the classroom corridor at
Quinnipiac College one afternoon in the mid-1970s. 10 years earlier I had
dropped out of college after my freshman year due to lack of money. Now,
after a divorce and much hardship, I was so grateful to be back in school.
Integral Learning: Management Education for the Whole Person
This article is written as a chapter for the forthcoming book Rethinking Management Education, a volume in the Research in Management Education and Development series edited by Charles Wankel and Robert DeFillippi.
"The majority of management education takes place in a classroom setting, whether it is in a university or a corporate classroom. Students sit in rows facing forward while the ‘expert’ pontificates in front of the room. More enlightened professors and trainers find ways to involve the students in experiential exercises, team projects, online simulations, discussions and other innovative approaches. But all of these pedagogical tools are based on the premise that we are educating the mind of the student only. Of even more concern, the focus of management education is based on a completely economic-driven, materialistic set of values that does not appear to be healthy or sustainable for individuals or organizations in the long run..... [read more]
Teaching With Soul: Support for the Management Educator
This article is published in the Journal of Management Systems. It is an update of an article published in the Journal of Management Education, February 1999. It includes a brief overview of issues of spirituality in management education and then provides resources and guidelines for people who are teaching courses related to spirituality in the workplace.
Gayle Porter sits
in silence in her office before going into the classroom.
She is saying a prayer that she might be able to be of service to the
learning of the students in her course.
David Banner makes eye contact with each student in the class before
beginning a session.
He also visualizes an electro-chemical circuit being made between himself
and each of the students.
This allows him to feel in touch with the energy in the classroom and to
have an intuitive sense of how to work with it.
Let Davidson has an inner knowing that he is an instrument of his Higher
Self when he is leading a seminar, and he lets this Higher Self work through him
as he keeps an awareness of the non-duality and Oneness that exists for him and
his students.
Don McCormick offers courses on spirituality in the workplace.
He gives the management students readings from the great wisdom teachers
over the centuries and has them contemplate how this wisdom can guide them in
being more effective and having a greater sense of purpose in their work.