Title & Summary

Who: This OP is self-directed and is in place to improve my capacity as a compassionate educator. 
What: The goal of this project is to touch base on education- what it means to me individually and what it means to the world/community.  It focuses on embracing the principles of nonviolent communication and how they can be implemented in my class, as well as social permaculture in relation to teaching.
Where: I will be using the town I currently live in to support the process of this OP.  The town I live in is Stevens Point, WI, which is central Wisconsin, USA. 

When:  I began this transition in January and hope to continue this as a life long installment that will need consistent reflection and evaluations as I progress.
Why:  To expand on the importance of education at an individual level and community level and the impacts of intentional teaching.
  To understand how to consciously teach, be aware of feelings and real needs and how to approach in a manner that depicts modeling behavior.
How: I am self-foraging through personal experiences, reconstructing social permaculture principles adapted by Starhawk and adjusting goals to embody Nonviolent communication principles.

• Principal outcomes of projects including what fresh knowledge you think you may have generated for the commons

  I think my application of the relationship between social permaculture and education will be a resourceful tool for the commons.
• What went well and what goals were met?

  I was able to determine new goals for upcoming projects as well as understand the bond between social permaculture and education. 
• What was challenging?

  I found it challenging to have so much of the OP to be pre-designed.  I felt like there were so many other obligations that took up space and retracted my ability to write a sufficient core report without going exceedingly over the word count.
• Principal un/learnings and what would you do differently next time?
  I would ideally like to focus on developing more of a core report of what I foraged and make it look more like an academic paper.  I know it had been stated in our orientation cycle that that is how the core report should look but I just question it with all the outside information you want obtained.

My primary un/learnings during this cycle are summarized here.

• A lot of great resources out there!
• Positive consistency is essential
• Unlearn fearfulness around leadership, and indecisiveness
• Learned I need to focus on self-care