Frontiers Friday #40. Deep Learner (Part I)
Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
Frontiers Friday #40. Becoming a Deep Learner (Part I)
The next few newsletters will be a curation of recommendations on helping you not only learn better, but also being able to transformation information into understanding, and understanding into applicable wisdom in your clinical practice.
In Part I, I'm so thrill to put out this latest podcast episode (see #1) and 4 other recommendations on Play. Why play? Play is the kindling of sustainable deep learning.
Latest Podcast Episode: A Hidden Discipline to Extend Your Mind
I hope this latest podcast on developing a personalised learning system (PLS) piques your interest, because I had lots of fun making this episode. It is also by far the biggest "tip" I would suggest to someone who is vested in their development in the long term.
More importantly, I hope you develop your own PLS.
(Do check out the video version of this episode. Also, I've done a short time-lapse animation of the relationship between my 6000+ notes.
Bookworm: Play
I cannot recommend this book enough. A serious researcher on play, Stuart Brown has done humanity a huge public service to remind us that play, or the lack of is as serious as malnutrition.
Watch: Play is More Than Fun by Stuart Brown
I first learned about Brown's book from watching this TED Talk. It's a delight to watch the image of animals at play. Stirs up a sort of universal longing... and to get off my chair and throw a frisbee!
Sneak Peak: Create Play
Take a look at one of the modules in the web-based workshop Deep Learner on this topic of play and why evoking our play history is critical in our adult life.
Key Grafs:
- Play is the opposite of depression.
- Neoteny: "You may not know this word, but it should be your biological first name and last name. Because neoteny means the retention of immature qualities into adulthood. And we are, by physical anthropologists, by many, many studies, the most neotenous, the most youthful, the most flexible, the most plastic of all creatures. And therefore, the most playful. And this gives us a leg up on adaptability."
Words Worth Contemplating:
"It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age." ~ Margaret Mead
Reflection:
What is your play history like?
How do you play in your life now?
DEEP LEARNER COURSE IS OPEN FOR REGISTRATION
Deep Learner is now open for you to take a deep dive!!
I will take you behind the scenes and unveil the personalised learning system I've iterated and refined over the 15 years in order to extend your mind, and more importantly, translate what you've learned into use, such as in clinical related settings (therapy, supervision, training).
Based on 4 tenets to help you for the rest of your professional career, Deep Learner is specially designed to
1. Extend your mind by tapping into the powerful cutting edge science of how we learn best
2. Create a virtuous learning system that pushes you to your growth edge, and
3. Connect the dots and not just collect the dots.
BENEFITS:
1. The deep learner workshop arms you with depth for a sustaining development to become the best profession (and your best self),
2. Embrace a wide array of knowledge, and more importantly, use what you've learned to apply and help a larger percentage of people in your clinical practice.
What Deep Learner is Not?
1. It is not a bag of tricks;
2. It is not a theoretical online course;
3. It is not a pre-recorded lecture, and a poor substitute of face-to-face learning, and
4. It is not overwhelming Content with no Community and Connection.
WHEN DOES IT START?
The course starts the moment you sign up.
The content is "dripped" into your inbox every 3 days for total of 72 days; learn at your own pace.
And it is not subscription-based non-time limited. It's a LIFE-TIME ACCESS to the content and the community discussion!
EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNT CODE
FOR A LIMITED TIME TIL 30 JUN 21, use the following promo code for a 25% discount code: FRONTIERSJUNE
PREVIEW
Feel free to preview the modules as a taster of what's installed. (Click here and go to Course Curriculum Section)
Here's what past students of Deep Learner have to say:
This course is a must if you want to get help in building your own learning system. And I would like to raise a warning finger at the same time, you will need to challenge many of your ideas what will be required of you to become a more helpful therapist.
That being said, you are not alone in this, above all, Daryl Chow generously shares his knowledge and experience in an educational and personal way.
~Bengt Göran Lindberg
Lic. psychotherapist, Supervisor, Sweden.
Daryl Chow has an amazing ability to translate incredibly complicated material into comprehensible, bite size chunks of wisdom which can be applied in clinical practice and in daily living.
Daryl's grounded and gentle style engages participants into a rich, collaborative learning experience. This is the second course I've taken with Daryl (the other being Reigniting Clinical Supervision) and he is truly one of the important voices shaping the field of psychotherapy in the 21st century.
~Keith Klostermann, PhD, LMFT, LMHC, CFT, NCC, AS
Fulbright Specialist Roster, US State Dept.
The Deep Learner Course brings most ordinary learning experiences back to life. I can now more effectively extract the gems from activities that would have been meaningless before.
~ Bert Munger, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, Vermont, USA
Dr Chow provides a very in-depth and thought provoking course on what it means to be a deep learner and shows you strategies and tips which will help you not only improve your clinical practice, but your work/life balance as well.
- Melvin S. Marsh, MS (graduate student)
BIG HUGS TO NEW SUBSCRIBERS WHO WANT TO BE AT THEIR FRONTIER!
If you've just joined us, I'm glad you can join us at the "bleeding edge." Feel free to check out the back catalogue of Frontiers of Psychotherapists Development (FPD).
And if you want to see past newsletters, click here.
In case you missed it, see the most recent missives
Unintended Consequences
Unintended Consequences (Part II)
If you want more musings, my other blog is Full Circles: Reflections on Living