Writing A Book !! Excerpt- Introduction

Unwritten
“The Story of a Living System”

 By Michael McKnight and Lori Desautels

Umbutu-“I am because we are".

Learning is the most natural thing human beings do.  Yet, it seems the “harder” we work in schools helping our students to acquire the learning they need, the academic performances stay stagnant or lessen.
 Schools are not machines. Schools are a network of human beings who feel, think, behave, and function within a human system that is alive and never static.  Schools are living systems!  This living system of sentient beings are neuro-biologically wired to feel first; to  think, to love, to connect, and to experience deep joy as well as deep disappointment and pain. This system is wired to thrive, even through difficult times.   Have we lost our way through the primordial landscape of our innate purpose and genius? We can begin to think and to feel differently. Deep learning is profoundly relational and connection to one another is a prerequisite for our collective emotional, social, spiritual and cognitive growth and development.
Please join us in dialogue as we question, remember, strategize, and rewrite the story. The story of a living system that knows compassion, that feels the joys and suffering of humankind; but often times, loses its way in an industrial robotic environment where people are unable to thrive.