Frontiers Friday #73. The Nuts and Bolts of Becoming a Deep Learner (Part III)
Frontiers Friday #73. The Nuts and Bolts of Becoming a Deep Learner (Part III)
Yes, I'm still talking about a note-taking app that costs nothing, but has a huge pay-off for your learning.
I've heard from several people on the Frontiers now are dabbling with not just Obsidian, but the act of capturing weekly learnings. (I've talked about this in a post few weeks ago.) My hopes is that you will make it a practice capture your insights and blunders. It will be your own "Gift of Therapy".
Here's this week's 5 recommendations.
📽 NEW VIDEO: How to Organise Your Notes to Improve the Learning Process
In part 2 of the Obsidian video series, I talked about how to use folders, tags, and a special "Inbox" to organise and improve your personalised learning system (PLS).
👓 Web-Read: Exploring the power of note-making with the co-founder of Obsidian
Co-founder of Obsidian Erica Xu talks about the power of customizing your note-taking environment, note-taking versus note-making, digital gardening as a way to produce content during the learning journey, and building a community of note-takers.
Thank you Erica Xu and Shida Li for creating obsidian--and the community of people who developed plugins to improve the user experience of app (More on recommended plugins in next week's Frontiers Friday newsletter).
📜 From My Desk (Archive): Blackbox Thinking for Psychotherapists
In this two-part blogpost (see Part I and Part II), I talked about why and how we can build our own little "blackbox" so that we can develop a learning system in our careers in the helping profession.
😳 Watch: The Difference Between the Aviation Industry and Health Care Systems
This is the difference between a learning system vs. a performing system. Watch this video to figure out where health care systems recede.
Spoiler: Aviation learns because it employs an open loop for reporting and responding to problems. Healthcare, by contrast, typically uses a closed loop where errors are swept under the carpet rather than used as learning opportunities.
⏸ Words Worth Contemplating:
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over.” ~ Coach John Wooden
Reflection:
What is one thing you need to set up once so that you no longer need to let it bug you for the rest of the year?
Now go do that.
The Deep Learner course might be for you.
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 the 4 tenets above 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 overwhelmed with content and no Community 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.
Plus, it is not subscription-based nor time limited. It's a LIFE-TIME ACCESS to the content and the community discussion!
EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNT CODE
Deep Learner is now open and we have an exclusive January discount of 29%! Only for folks on the Frontiers list, the savings from AUD$485 to $344.35 is embedded in this special link (The promo code FrontiersJan is already keyed in for you; you'd save $140.65. This special rate ends on 31st of Jan 2022.)
Learning to learn deeply is one of high leverage skills one can develop. The Deep Learner course is specifically designed for this.
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)
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