The Community Nature of the Self
Adapted from Peter Senge, “Communities of Commitment”
Nothing happens without personal transformation; and the only safe space to allow for this “transformation of the self” is in a learning community.
— J. Edwards Deming
When somebody asks us to talk about ourselves, we talk about family, work, school, sports– all about our affiliations. In all this talk where is the ‘self’? The answer is ‘nowhere.’ Consider this: the self is not a ‘thing’, but a point of view that unifies the flow of experience into coherency.
In our culture, the self is a “myself” isolated from other DOWNLOAD PDF