The One Academy
Room Description
The One Academy is making a call for global action to transform education. Why? Because education today is delivered to scattered brains. As a result, it lacks depth.
The One Academy is making a case to teach time-tested practices to cultivate focus of attention to make learning in-depth. The problem is not as much with what is taught as it is with the state of mind of the learners. A focused mind learns holistically, while learning achievable by a distracted mind can only be partial.
Current Education uses a two-step learning process. The first step is cognitive; the student listens, sees, tastes, touches and smells to learn. The second is reflective. In this step, the student deepens the learning of the first step by recalling, reviewing, and relearning its content. But the mind in both steps is distracted, resulting in partial learning of partial truths which may be adequate for individual survival but insufficient for meaning, purpose, interconnection, health and harmony.
Holistic learning requires an additional step of dwelling on learning resulting from the two-step process with a focused and undistracted mind achievable only when the body is completely still. Only then, the whole truth is perceptible. This third step is contemplative in nature. Without it, the world consists only of individual beings apart from each other.
The One Academy is focused on (1) time-tested and science-based practices to cultivate an undistracted focus of attention, (2) the truths learnt by the contemplative explorers of the world, and (3) the unifying, self-regulative and transformative power of contemplative epistemology and pedagogy.
Education can change cultures. We look forward to your participation and contributions to contemplative education to make the perception of world unity a global reality.
Room Schedule
Past Events
June 2023
Opening Session: International Conference on Finding Focus, Inspired Learning and Deeper Purpose
Opening Session: International Conference on Finding Focus, Inspired Learning and Deeper Purpose
Fred Lawlor will open the conference and Jivasu M. D. will explain the themes of the conference and engage the participants in a meditative practice.
Panel on The Human Condition: Why do Personal and Common Good Elude us
Panel on The Human Condition: Why do Personal and Common Good Elude us
The purpose of this event is to get to the root cause of the problem of the human condition conclusively and inclusively to develop plausible solutions to human problems of a global scope scale plaguing humanity today.
Theory and Practices of Finding Focus and Purpose
Theory and Practices of Finding Focus and Purpose
Through talk, dialogue, and practical techniques, Jivasu M.D. will explore how unblocking life energy within is possible and how it will take us to peace, happiness, and vitality.
The Neurobiology of In-Depth Truth-Inspired Learning
The Neurobiology of In-Depth Truth-Inspired Learning
In-depth learning is a three-step process, one more than the two steps of cognition (hear, touch, sight, taste, and smell) and reflection, used in ordinary learning. This presentation unveils the sensory-motor activity used in the third step.
Models for Transforming Dysfunctional Global Education
Models for Transforming Dysfunctional Global Education
The participants will be exposed to the following; Link between learning, making a living and living life, & ... What can we do individually and collectively?