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Credos
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Music, audio, a place to be still
“Two men looked out of prison bars — one saw mud, the other stars.”
Frederick Langbridge
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
Four Pieces to Begin With
Recommended from this room
Reflection is a particular and a useful state of mind but we tend to overlook it through its familiarity. We present a montage of figurines showing subjects in a ruminative state of Reflection.
Little of what follows is as easy as it might seem.
Reflection is a mental or cerebral state of mind. Mental ...
Don’t you want to be more rounded, successful and clever. Of course you do! Everything in this institute tends in ...
Eastern Meditation has it's handbooks, it's rituals, it's methods, its's mantras. So too there is advice galore ...
Credos 1
Modern Thinkers about the human condition
Mark Twain once said: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and ...
Does one ruminate and allow space for intuition to pop up to the surface of our mind and/or is one disposed to cudgel the brains in a more intellectual way to make sense of ideas and facts that come to one? Inspiration can be a subject of thinking enquiry.
Reflection is a particular and a useful state of mind but we tend to overlook it through its familiarity. We present a montage of figurines showing subjects in a ruminative state of Reflection.
Credos 11
Mysticism & The Unseen World
This virtual institute is about how the facility and ability, reflection, that each of us has to greater or lesser ...
For millennia humans have solved extraordinary problems as well as taken advantage of great opportunities through ...
Linda Lawrence-Wilkes and Dr Lyn Ashmore, teachers of professional development in higher education, collaborated to publish their research on Reflective Practice for learning, 'The Reflective Practitioner in Professional Education'.
The theoretical approach of reflection as a cyclical model was further developed by Graham Gibbs (1998). This model is based on a six-stage approach, leading from a description of the experience through to conclusions and considerations for future events. While most of the core principles are similar to Kolb’s, Gibbs’ model is broken down further to encourage the teacher to reflect on their own thoughts and feelings.
David Kolb proposed that if people become better at using all stages of a learning cycle, notably including reflecting on experience, they will become better life-long learners, and be more successful.
His concept is among many that advocates 'trial and error' (extending to reflection, conceptualization and experimentation) through direct personal experience
The Art of Self-Scrutiny
The act of self-reflection is a ‘spiritual act’ by taking time out to connect the ...
Jenny Moon, a Teaching Fellow and Associate Professor at Bournemouth University, has written much on reflective ...
Reflective Practice is an ancient concept. There are references to the power of reflective learning in the ...
Reflection as an academic subject has been considered by many famous philosophers throughout history. Here's some of the best known historical contributors to the field.
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What is Important to You?
Mark Twain once said: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and ...
Does one ruminate and allow space for intuition to pop up to the surface of our mind and/or is one disposed to cudgel the brains in a more intellectual way to make sense of ideas and facts that come to one? Inspiration can be a subject of thinking enquiry.
Reflection is a particular and a useful state of mind but we tend to overlook it through its familiarity. We present a montage of figurines showing subjects in a ruminative state of Reflection.
Credos 1V
Spiritual Matters
Mark Twain once said: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and ...
Does one ruminate and allow space for intuition to pop up to the surface of our mind and/or is one disposed to cudgel the brains in a more intellectual way to make sense of ideas and facts that come to one? Inspiration can be a subject of thinking enquiry.
Reflection is a particular and a useful state of mind but we tend to overlook it through its familiarity. We present a montage of figurines showing subjects in a ruminative state of Reflection.
Credos V
Poet’s Corner
Mirror, Mirror
You are the one who captured
My silhouette .
I watched helpless
As you made me
Go beyond your ...
I counted them all, Out ;
I counted them all, In
But the Number found
That I cannot tell you : a Military ...
You are talking, talking
Talking to Yourself or talking
To someone, somewhere unseen
Hidden in another space ...
Your Turn
What is important to you?
This room is not just a reading room — it is an invitation. The Institute welcomes contributions from those who have thought carefully about what they believe and why. If you have something to say, we would like to read it.