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SELF-ORGANISED LEARNING : KEY TO HIGHER RETENTION RATES

In the literature for self-organised learning environments (SOLE), it is projected that a person retains only about 5% of what he or she hears. Thus the lecture phase accounts for very little in terms of knowledge absorption. This means that mastery comes not by hearing alone but by self-organised learning, ie, by doing, by practice, by discussion and ultimately by teaching others to likewise learn.

“Very small things can become big issues that end up vast, disagreeable, complicated and miscellaneous“ – Walter Bagehot (1826 – 1877), Victorian thought-leader

After an initial period of self-selection, participants evaluate themselves, husbands being studied by their wives and wives by their husbands. The singles also, discussing among themselves how well the characterisation of elemental (‘defaults’) traits did, – or did not “fit” their own observations of themselves and of their colleagues.

[Note: This is the beginning of external validation. You can used this method of group diagnostic with some degree of accuracy when ever a group is fitly framed together such as family members or childhood friends. Parents, spouse, siblings provide an excellent source of self-awareness.]

We can sometimes accelerate this self-awareness by asking a question or having them recall an incident in childhood that brings to the surface a clue that was hidden or an impactful trial or trauma that can then be critical as the student learns how to properly deal with and interpret past events that have significance in the identification of archetype.]

Example 1: The Unexpected You

How would you advise an excited old classmate on how to get ahead in your industry? You haven’t seen this person since college days. It’s been 30 years since you’ve spoken but he or she seems so keen to learn from you. How would you advise your long lost friend if he/she asked you, What should I do if I want to get ahead in your particular industry? How would you advise?

Example 2: The LearningCurve

God is building His body around the world in the most unexpected ways through the most unexpected people. When you look back at your own personal transformation, what triggered the journey into maturity, who were the people that helped you develop the gift within you? What was the timeline and what has worked best for you in your personal learning curve?

Example 3 : Life Impact Statement

Have your students identify who their target audience is, what they have to offer and how they intend to deliver on their promises. This is a short-cut to identify the who, what and how that drives a person forward. Start by asking the question: “What keeps you up at night?”.

Each of the participants are challenged to eliminate who among their circle may or may not experience resonance with the primary characteristic DNA as listed in “the pattern shown Moses on the mountain” where the various archetypes (“modalities”) are seen represented by the 7 pieces of furniture within the overall structure.

[Bible characters: Here’s an interesting exercise for the class to embark on. Try to match each of the 7 modal excellencies with a bible character and tell us why? For example, was Moses a PRO-IS-TE-MI with the elemental gift of leadership drive that wore a prophetic “hat” or “mantle” like what we see popularly depicted. Or was Moses actually a DI-DA-SKO with the genius of codifying the Torah and writing it all down for future generations?]

This mosaic structure in the narrative, starting at the gate man, then proceeding inward to the altar of sacrifice, the laver, the lamp stand, table of shew bread, altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, forms a basic framework for the student to understand how human behaviour, in its redeemed state, is reflected in exodus narrative of the construction of the Tabernacle. The levitical model in this way, serves as a mental model that mirrors the non-levitical reality in the NT of the drivers that stand behind human differences as found in Paul (1 Cor 14:26, Rom 12: 6-8).

[Students use the flash card system to check if they have understood the basics and by reflecting of how each of the archetypes differ from the other forming a composite picture of human personhood as God designed it to be.]

The study of human differences from this levitical model has been mapped to the exegetical order found in 1 Cor 14:26 expressing the 7 key aspects of the NT church life and worship “that the house may be built up.”

[Paul Lu shares insights from his eleemosynary genius on the nexus between the pattern shown to Moses at Sinai and the NT tabernacle established in the first century]

SOBRIETY, DIGNITY, EFFICIENCY

Sober-minded thinking about one’s self, and the dignity we give to each other, whether in a marriage or church team, etc and the efficiency we obtain as a result of coordinated action. This proficiency is experienced as each honours and gives visibility to the other’s giftedness within the wider body.

This the penultimate expression in the new that was concealed in the Old – assembled saints in the first century that embody the hebraic framework expressed in the tabernacle of old.

PRO-PHE-TI-EA – the prismatic seer (lampstand) who thus decodes, declares and defines the mysteries that others are unable to appreciate and articulate quickly or as accurately.

DEA-CO-NI-EA – the specialist class of craftsmen (altar of incense) who create wonders by hand with artisanal excellence by a script, score or finely engineered plan that is executed with precision and timeliness.

DI-DA-SKO – the essentialist who imaginatively captures and creatively conveys the fundamentals of a particular subject matter (laver) over which he or she has authority to speak as a master communicator by design and intimate knowledge.

PARA-KA-LE-HO – the one who enables and encourages others to new levels in the performance of achievement and fulfilment as a coach (table of shewbread) would, standing alongside to scaffold boys to men, the savage to gentlemanly behaviour, from ground zero to cap n gown.

META-DI-DO-MI – the hidden organiser and backbone of society (ark of the covenant) that stands behind genius and empowers it, through meticulous care for details, critical structures and hygiene thus making room for greater impact.

PRO-IS-TE-MI – the point man and visionary with big, hairy and audacious goals (gate man) who creates followers willing to sacrifice in blood, sweat and tears on behalf of a stated mission that galvanises the team as a cohesive unit to obtain the objective at all costs.

EL-EE-OS – the wildcard candidate (altar of sacrifice) reserved in hand for “the big win” as a joker to be played in a time of crisis or emergency where immediate action is required on behalf as a masterful interventionist to staunch the bleeding or mend a broken heart.

Collectively, these 7 modalities seen in the tabernacle in the wilderness under Moses and transposed into the basic structure of the early (house) church movement under Paul gives shape to a new conception of how stakeholders, practitioners, owners and corporates can function with ease and complimentary efficiency without competition, envy or strife.

Thus the bible, from Moses to Paul, describes a science of behaviour that is far superior to secular psychology where individual gifts are accounted for, located in the whole root and brain of the jewish (hebraic) mind. Like in medicine or mathematics, the study of modalities asserts that there are answers at the back of the book and that every kind of behaviour can be redeemed (except the demonic) and harnessed for the common good.

[Group diagnostics: Son validates mother, mother and daughter validates son. Daughter validates mother, mother and son validates daughter. Mother validates both son and daughter, both daughter and son validates mother. Modalities in teams provide a safe and accurate way to help members find their place quickly to foster that sense of belonging.]

These birthright gifts are connected to but are distinct from the so-called “hallelujah gifts” to establish the local church (eg, walking on water, raising the dead, etc) but are the elemental properties in the human periodic table that describe every day patterns we encounter in church, at the work and marketplace, the totality of which is revealed in Romans 12:6-8 where differing gifts are compared and contrasted in the unfolding spiral of leadership, creativity and flow.

[Easily obtainable from the local stationery, the labels clearly mark the 7 modalities that decode, define and declare the elemental in you, the indigenous self and the surprising person you thought you were. “It’s all about you but you are not what its all about.”]

The modalities common to man are given in answer to 2 of life’s most puzzling and elusive questions, What makes life worth living and, Why is tomorrow better than yesterday. Apart from these sovereign foundations, there is little or no meaning to human existence other than base animal instinct subject to evolutionary forces.

The discovery of the human “periodic table of elements” behind personality as predicated by Moses, Jesus and Paul stands in sharp contrast to secular theories of personhood and is an amazing “pearl of great price” found the the field of human psychology and behavioural differences, one that resonates deeply with the angst and disorder within human society and is that missing link in the longing of the local church to “come to unity of the faith, unto a perfect man, in the fullness of the stature of Christ (Eph 4:13).