ABSTRACT
The working principles, techniques and mental models advanced here are first and foremost practitioner perspectives based on more than forty years of field practice and context driven innovations in the arts and sciences, K-12 learning, higher education, executive education, leadership development and global affairs. People like this inner work compelled by the experience of beauty. The author hope for this chapter has been that people might uncover amidst our playful experimentation some of the quiet connectors facilitating the inclusionary impulse in our thinking. Finally, people wrestled with the royal matter of explanation itself. But it is our educational institutions that are mandated to be our guides, our islands of wisdom, inquiry and encouragement as people step into the deeps of that unknown sea. But how purposeful and encouraging that people are included here in this circle of honest reflections, our minds wide open, our resolve clear in advancing this good work.
