A Critical Incident is an event of life-changing significance. And the festival - part of the Brighton Festival - is a creative retreat in the heart of Brighton with focus on: Science, Spirituality, Sustainability, Sensuality and Spontaneity
Re-dying & the end(lessness) of the virtual eternity
About the impact of social media on the divergence & convergence of our day of death
Leila Summa, Co-(r)evolutionary strategist, Zurich - Switzerland
Writing by Leila Summa on Monday, 29 of December , 2008 at 5:00 pm
“Lord, how much longer are the wicked
how much longer are the wicked to triumph?
(Psalm 94:3)
and the prophet:
Why is it that the wicked live so prosperously?
Why do scoundrels enjoy peace?”
In system terms, there is a simple answer. “Good” people are bound by rules as to what is acceptable and what not; “wicked” people are bound by no such rules. In the short term at least, “wicked” people have no constraints and hence greater freedom of action, and the “Law of Requisite Variety” suggests that those components of a system which have the greatest flexibility and freedom are therefore the most powerful.”
Writing by Leila Summa on Sunday, 28 of December , 2008 at 12:51 pm
“I am a humanizer when I ….
perceive and treat my students as persons having rights and responsibilities.
approach language education/ teaching as a system for helping learners grow personally, socially, intra-culturally, and inter-culturally
view and implement assessment of learners´ performance as a positive, “humanizing” system which emphasizes the strengths employed by students in their language learning.
apply human communicative rights in the classroom and assure learners of their right to hear (what is being said by other members of the classroom community) and the right to be heard and see to it that students fulfill their corresponding communicative responsibilities.
adapt/ change portions of teaching materials which do not contribute to personal or group humanization. In such cases, the key-question would be: What needs to be changed in such and such lesson so that language learning can become a deeply humanizing experience? How can this be done? What needs to be considered i.e., steps and research?
adopt and maintain a positive view of the language and culture which are being experienced in the classroom and motivate students to share different, constructive lingua-cultural perceptions.
create humanizing, peace-building, peace-enhancing, peace-promoting activities so that learners build up their competence as caring and compassionate language users.
probe language resources, especially vocabulary, as a tool with which students can both humanize themselves and others with which they interact.”
Writing by Leila Summa on Thursday, 30 of October , 2008 at 9:32 pm
“The black swan is that single observation that shows our experience-based knowledge to be wrong. Taleb says a black swan has three characteristics:
1. It is an Outlier: Nothing in the past points to its possibility.
2. It has an Extreme Impact: Precisely because we did not expect it, we did not prepare for it, and thus its impact is large (may be positive or negative)
3. Predictability Only in Retrospect: We did not predict it, but we create explanations after the fact to explain it and make it seem predictable.”
“Just because you haven’t seen a black swan, doesn’t mean that there are no black swans. Unlikely events seem impossible when they lie in the unknown or in the future. But after they happen, people assimilate them into their conception of the world.”Amazon
Writing by Leila Summa on Friday, 8 of August , 2008 at 12:30 am
”LEADER-MEMBER EXHANGE THEORY INDICATES THAT LEADERS DEVELOP SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH TRUSTED FOLLOWERS”
“The notion underlying leader-member exchange theory is that as a leader and follower interact over time, their exchanges end up defining the follower’s role. 7 Whether due to personality similarities or differences, time pressures and interaction opportunities, or the follower’s competencies and accomplishments, this role ends up being defined into a high-exchange or low-exchange relationship with the leader.”
“In-group followers with high LMX relationships tend to be more satisfied, receive higher performance evaluations and show less turnover than do out-group followers having low LMX relationships.”
Leila Summa ist nicht nur der Tiefe der menschlichen Psyche, sondern seit dem Dot-com-Hype auch die Leidenschaft für die Weite des WWW verfallen. Sie hat sich quasi in den net-ten Hyperlink verliebt und konnte nicht mehr loslassen [ausser den 404'er].
