What American Know-How Has to Learn (English)
My friends John Engle and Steven Werlin are outstanding champions in non authoritarian leadership. It is always inspiring to see both of them in action, very discrete, very respectful, very allowing, and at the same time, very efficient, very intentional and very successful. Their leadership style, which they apply in precise proven methods are almost all related to the Open Space and Touchstone techniques, which are the best ones coming from the Western culture that I know, to be able to accomodate the cultural and social gap and unbalance between precisely the Western culture and the African, Amerindian, “Creole”, or Ayitian culture. I have yet to see another system produced by the modern Western culture, able to efficiently balance and correct the chronic arrogance coming with that culture. I think that their experience in alternative leadership applied to education and pedagogy is worth all our attention, support and contribution. It may yet be the only hope on the Western side to the so-called “development problem” in places like Ayiti, so far. I still think that we need to just get rid of not only the whole “education” system in its entirety in Ayiti, but of the concept of so-called “education” istelf, misunderstood and mistransposed from the Western paradigm into the Ayitian paradigm, to replace it by the traditional concept of “Levasyon”, and create the national “Levasyon” system that will carry it on. I intend to write more soon on this idea (maybe in Creole though).
Meanwhile, I highly recommend you to read John and Steven’s article on their experience. Just right-click on the title of the article and select “Open in a New Window”: What American Know-How Has to Learn
I also invite you to visit John Engle’s mind opening blog (The Experiment in Alternative Leadership: http://johnengle.blogspot.com/) which is the Godfather of this current blog.
Peace ~ Respect ~ Wisdom
~Djalòki~
