1. Critical Reading
   1. Skim, table of contents, headings
   2. Deconstruct/Reconstruct
      1. Key words
      2. Mind Map
      3. Analyze
      4. Extend
      5. Share
   3. Defense Against Propaganda
      1. Mapping ideas for similarities/differences
      2. Applying critical analysis
      3. Questioning motives/world views
      4. Looking for domination paradigm (patrix)
2. Development of Ideas
   1. Insight, sensing, intuition
   2. conjecture
   3. hypothesis - referenced evidence
   4. theory - broad consensus
3. Validating Thinking
   1. What is my best (and worst) thinking on this topic?
   2. Who else's thinking supports my best thinking?
   3. How does this thinking compare with established theories?
4. Epistemic Community
   1. Epistemology - accepted approaches for creating and validating knowledge
   2. What is Professional? How to be authoritative w/o being elitist/exclusionary
   3. Sociology of Knowledge Building
      1. how ideas are created
         1. Cooperative iterative process
      2. where attention is put
         1. Where it is needed most
      3. who has access to knowledge
         1. Everyone
      4. how knowledge is used
         1. Eliminating the patrix
5. Action Learning
   1. Revans/Marquart formula: Learning = Programming + Questions + Reflection
   2. Many different approaches/systems available
   3. Kolb's Model
      1. Experience
         1. How engaged am I?
         2. How much stamina do I have?
         3. What am I sensing?
         4. What am I feeling?
      2. Reflection
         1. What went well?
         2. What was challenging?
         3. What would I do differently?
         4. What was triggered?
         5. What were the critical moments?
      3. Abstract Thinking
         1. What thinking can I draw from?
         2. What world view am I operating from?
         3. How is my perspective skewed by distress patterns?
         4. How are my sources skewed by distress patterns?
         5. Does anyone else think like me?
      4. Experimentation
         1. How can I test on a small scale?
         2. How can I rapid prototype and get feedback?
         3. How exactly does this work?
   4. Praxis
      1. Judgement (what increases human well being in this situation?)
      2. Moral guidance (holding values)
      3. Engagement (practical doing which creates outcomes that are measured)
      4. Process (created and possibly repeated/re-designed for other applications)
6. Transformative Learning
   1. Espoused Theory vs. Theory in Action
   2. Critical Reflection
   3. Holistic Learning
   4. Social Change
   5. Subconscious change
7. Presencing
   1. Four Levels of connection
      1. Action
         1. I in Me (projecting)
      2. Mind
         1. I in It (observing)
      3. Heart
         1. I in You (empathy)
      4. Will
         1. I in Now (holding space)
   2. Three enemies
      1. voice of judgement
      2. voice of cynicism (distancing)
      3. voice of fear (resistance to change)