Frontiers Friday #74. The Nuts and Bolts of Becoming a Deep Learner (Part IV)
I'm taking a break from the Obsidian videos this week (You can watch the previous Obsidian related videos here).
This week, 1 new blog, and some recommendations on becoming a deep learner.
📜 New From My Desk: The Difference Between What's Right and What's Right For You
Sounds obvious? Yeah, but not trivial.
There are 3 key questions to ask yourself as you figure out where you should channel your efforts.
📽 Watch: The Surprising Thing About Learning In schools Will Richardson
Will Richardson who authors books about the education system , does a thought provoking talk about learning in a schools.
Here's one that most of us know is true: "Our students will forget most of what they 'learn' in school."
Here's one that we need to take pause on: "The current grading systems and assesmments define our kids and teachers in ways that are counterproductive if not harmful."
Finally, here's a useful screen grab. Go through this list side-by-side, one at a time:📽 Watch: Neuroscientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty
Wired magazine has a video series them where they get experts to explain complicated things in 5different versions:
i. to an expert
ii. to a grad
iii. to a college student
iv. to a teen
v. to a child.
Besides the practice of brevity, it's also an exercise of clarity.
Stay tuned next week, as I'm writing a blog how this applies to our field.👓 Read: One World Schoolhouse
Sal Khan is famed for his development of Khan Academy (This has grown to become a great resource for kids. My 4 yr old loves it).
His 2012 book One World Schoolhouse, was one of the key books that sparked me to re-think how we approach learning and training, and helped shaped the creation of the Deep Learner course.
⏸ Words Worth Contemplating:
“The line of progress is never straight. For a period a movement may follow a straight line and then it encounters obstacles and the path bends. It is like curving around a mountain when you are approaching a city. Often it feels as though you were moving backward, and you lose sight of your goal; but in fact you are moving ahead, and soon you will see the city again, closer by.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
RIP Kim Hogan Lavery.
Reflection:
What does progress mean to you?
Conversely, has the push for constant progress robbed you in living?
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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