The Educational Workshop on
20 Opportunities to
Transform Yourself
​While Teaching
Taken from actual experiences that honor spirituality in education.
The 1 hour workshop given at Columbia U. Teachers College.
Based on John Bickart's book, 20 Opportunities to Transform Yourself  While Teaching ...
a series of practical, personal exercises in the form of wake up calls and anecdotal illustrations that show how to teach yourself to become your own transformational consultant on a daily basis.
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Intended audience: Teachers, Post-Secondary Students, Spiritual Healers.
Instructors: John Bickart, Ph.D., Kevin Bickart, MD, Ph.D.
Prerequisites: none
Website: https://www.johnbickart.org/
Recommended Reading: The Next Version of You, Bickart's Just-in-Time Fables, 20 Opportunities to Transform Yourself While Teaching, Science Education and Spiritual Transformation​​
The Video
Participate in 20 interactive examples of moments in teaching where the teacher can have a transformative experience. Each is a practical example where you experience an opportunity to model truly transformative learning for students. The activities of the workshop anticipate that each participant will be able to perform the following ...
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Intuitive Teaching where the teacher is open to new ideas while telling.
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Teacher / Student Reversal where the teacher is open to learning from the student by active listening.
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True Learning Modeling where the teacher experiences true gratitude for the student, becoming a model of the highest form of a true teacher.
The 1 hour workshop given at Columbia U.
All of the '20 Opps' Workshop Presentations
Part 1 of 5 - "Reclaiming Your Spirituality" ... prepared for "Cultivating the Spiritual Core: An Interactive Learning Summit", Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (Nov. 2021)
​Opportunity #1. First, Change Yourself
Opportunity #2. The True Teacher
Opportunity #3. Intuitive Teaching
Opportunity #4. The Test of Awakening
Part 2 of 5 - "Reawakening Your Love of Teaching" ... prepared for "AWAKENED SCHOOLS: The Spiritual Core in Whole Child Education", live conference, Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (Oct. 2022)
Opportunity #5. Points of View
Opportunity #6. Vulnerability
Opportunity #7. The Unseen
Opportunity #8. Fun
Part 3 of 5 - "Recovering Your Childhood in Adulthood" ... prepared for "Awakened Campus Summit", Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (April 2022)
Opportunity #9. Reawakening the child in the adult
Opportunity#10. Heart Thought
Opportunity #11. Teach Yourself
Opportunity #12. Moving Toward and Away
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Part 4 of 5 - "Revitalizing Your Ability to Lead"
Opportunity #13. Learn to Return
Opportunity #14. The Servant Leader
Opportunity #15. Language Reduces Experience
Opportunity #16. Separateness is a Subtle Deception of Physical Life
Part 5 of 5 - "The Believing Brain: Reaffirming Your Belief in Change" ... prepared for "AWAKENED SCHOOLS: The Spiritual Core in Whole Child Education", live conference, Teachers College of Columbia U. in NYC (Oct. 2022)
Opportunity #17. Naming, Categorizing, Labeling
Opportunity #18. The Senses as a Gateway to Observation
Opportunity #19. Holistic versus The Divided Self
Opportunity #20. The Role of Belief
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