What Is Comprehensive Learning? @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

The inspiration for my Comprehensivist Wednesday series of essays and presentations began with Buckminster Fuller's ideas. Consider his statement: "I am certain that none of the world’s problems—which we are all perforce thinking about today—have any hope of solution except through all of world around society’s individuals becoming thoroughly and comprehensively self-educated." The sentiment of that quote and related one's in Bucky's "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth" led to my essay/presentation The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller.

My challenge has been to abstract what Bucky meant and combine it with the traditions of others to precipitate the practice of a new conscientious tradition of inquiry and action to understand the world and each other which I call "Collaborating for Comprehensivism".

At various times I have called it comprehensive learning, comprehensive thinking, the art of our comprehensivity, and various other attempts to find words to crystalize the sentiment of Bucky's idea without being too beholden to Bucky's own peculiar comprehensivity, his particular way of expressing, practicing, and advocating for comprehensive inquiry and action. That is, how can we all become comprehensivists without the undue restrictions to Bucky's or my own peculiar set of preferred ideas and inquiries?

I cannot know how we should forge this initiative to better articulate our comprehensivity (as I put it in last month's essay/presentation Articulating Comprehensivity: The Comprehensive Design of Our Lives) because this new tradition will be forged by its practitioners, not by me nor by Bucky, but by you too.

All I can do is hope that some of my ideas are sober enough that some of you are inspired to better practice your comprehensivity or that my presentations irritate you enough that you organize your own thinking to steer us toward a more propitious articulation for our emerging movement for comprehensive thinking.

This month I will recapitulate the basic ideas of comprehensive learning and compare it to other ways of learning and of living so as to further clarify the nature of comprehensive learning.

The event will explore two questions / segments:

1. How does comprehensive learning compare to other ways of learning?

2. How does comprehensive learning compare to other ways of life?

There will be breakout explorations after each segment followed by a group Q&A to explore everyone's thoughts broadly and deeply.

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Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

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