FLOW: Michael Strong & John Mackey

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FLOW: Michael Strong & John Mackey

			12/2008 Cobden-Bright Award: $500 10/2007 Cobden-Bright Award: $250

			FLOW was created by Michael Strong & John Mackey.

			FLOW - Freedom Lights Our World FLOW is a transpartisan initiative, founded by innovative educator Michael Strong and John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, dedicated to “liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good” and focusing it on the goals of sustainable peace, prosperity, and happiness for all in our lifetime. FLOW is dedicated to liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good and directing it towards creating sustainable peace, prosperity, and happiness for all in our lifetime. The FLOW Movement reflects a FLOW Vision, integrating appreciation for economic freedom, voluntary exchange, individual initiative, combined with social and environmental consciousness, and embodies FLOW Principles, which include commitments to human flourishing, non-violence, diversity, and radical tolerance.

			The FLOW Vision for the 21st Century

			http://www.flowidealism.org/Downloads/The-FLOW-Vision.pdf

			"Conscious Capitalism: Creating a New Paradigm for Business", by John Mackey

			http://www.flowidealism.org/Downloads/JM-CC-1.pdf

			Women's Empowerment Free Zone Coalition

			http://www.flowidealism.org/Downloads/WEFZ-Coalition.pdf

			Michael Strong, The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice (Chapel Hill, NC: New View, 1996).

			A review of The Habit of Thought, by James Rhem, Executive Editor, Electronic Educational Environment, University of California, Irvine

			From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice Michael Strong's The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice remains unknown to most faculty and to many faculty developers. It's a small book published in 1996 by a small publisher in North Carolina (New View). Limited marketing may account for the book's low profile in higher education circles, or perhaps the fact that much of Strong's work has been in the K-12 world. Whatever the reasons, the book deserves wider exposure among faculty not because it offers a "magic bullet" for improving teaching - it doesn't - but because in clear, no nonsense language it sounds a call to the most noble stance any teacher can take with students, that of "an honest, open, inquiring mind." ... complete review through link following ... http://eee.uci.edu/news/articles/0503habit.php

			Event at The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, New York City, October 10, 2007

			http://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/407.html

			EF Glyphs on FLOW

			369 January 6, 1906, Maria Montessori, Casa de Bambini, Children's House, San Lorenzo, Italy - Michael Strong writes of Montessori, of learning in a stream of exploration flowing onward from childhood.

			glyph#369: Maria Montessori, Casa de Bambini, Children's House, San Lorenzo, Italy, January 6, 1906 ... Michael Strong, FLOW ... foundations of lifelong learning ... education, pedagogy, schools, schooling (home & elsewhere) . innovative pedagogies ... Maria Montessori's entrepreneurial initiative ... Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience ... tools for explorers ... Thomas Edison . Alexander Graham Bell . Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Google . Jeff Bezos, Amazon . John Mackey, Whole Foods ..... [unfreezing the river of imagination (Charles Morgan) . all liberty begins with the education of sovereign spirits ... an important date in the history of freeorder -leif smith]

			Women's Empowerment Free Zone Coalition

			glyph#391: freedom, liberty, land, wealth creation ... freezones, free zones ... entrepreneurial response to challenge ... economic freedom ... capitalization of rapidly increasing rents and progressive transfer of capital to transpanent trusts benefiting women, children, health, education, general welfare ... non-governmental means of solving the problem of poverty throughout the planet ..... large-scale multi-tenant-income properties . proprietary communities ... legal infrastructure . intensifying regulatory arbitrage . islands of rule of law and freeorder emerging in seas unfit for explorers ... openworld . openworld zones http://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/391.html

			The Creation of Conscious Culture through Educational Innovation

			glyph#252: education, culture ... formation of appetites, attitudes, and souls of young people ..... increasing propensity to be dominated by commercialism, sensationalism, materialism, conspicuous consumption . proposed remedy ..... invisible virtues: including justice, honor, love, awareness, kindness, empathy, curiousity, wonder, or wisdom ..... skill development ..... global economy ..... creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship http://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/252.html

			First Glyph on FLOW (2005)

			glyph#156: idealism, network ... vision, reason ... combine individual and social outlooks ... improve world through market processes ... forge (freeorder generator) ... book on education, Socratic method, practice, seminars . Socrates ... Angel Fire, New Mexico ... Michael Strong, John Mackey . whole vision, whole practicality http://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/156.html

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