Staughton Lynd:
That's exactly right.
Rob Kall:
From what I read, what you're talking about has some similarity to what
Paulo Freire has talked about. That
you've got to go the people and get them involved and connect with them, and
not do a kind of "Top down, tell-them-what-to-do and when-to-do-it and
how-to-do-it kind of thing."
Staughton Lynd: .
And that's correct as well. When
we did the Mississippi Freedom Schools, to the best of my recollection, we
didn't know of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, but basically
we proceeded in that manner. The same is
true of accompanying generally, which grew out of my wife's practice of Draft
Counseling In the 60s: where instead of trying to tell a young man what he
ought to do, she listened and they worked it out together.
Rob Kall:
Well, I'm pretty sure that Paulo Freire didn't write his book until the
late 70s. So yes.
Staughton Lynd:
(laughs)
Rob Kall: In
the sixties, you wouldn't have read his book!
You were just walking in similar paths.
Staughton Lynd:
That's correct.
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)