I am a community development professional, artist and believer in personal growth. I found myself at the exciting and daunting crossroads in my career where I was running a micro enterprise incubation program, and about to set out on a journey with 5 high schoolers from inner city high schools with no background in education, and a few months of research, reading and trying to plan for everything. I was lucky enough to meet Doris and found myself at her summer workshop at Hawken School this June. After a grueling but awe inspiring two days I set out with four days to reimagine everything I had planned and go full steam ahead with a new strategy based on her problem based experiential learning process, referred to by everyone but Doris herself as the Korda method. The transformational experiences of my students and just as importantly, myself were life changing. This podcast is a great way to tap into this movement in better educating the youth of the world, to bring better solutions to real life problems faced in your work environment or simply for self growth. Doris, Ali and Tim are some of the most passionate, genuine, and selfless people I have ever met and they are devoting their lives to doing what any great entrepreneur does, which is introduce a disruptive idea into an archaic system that has great inertia, financial and political backing, and much resistance to change. Their topic, how we teach our children. Sure, they are using entrepreneurship as the lens with which to present this overhaul, but this is about creating substantive confidence, building strong foundations of problem solving, navigating team dynamics, public speaking, persuasive logic, and myriad other foundations for being a successful person in the 21st century in a way that no amount of fact memorization or perfect SAT scores could ever create. If you are serious about finding a better way, I urge you to listen in, to join the favebook page and to find a way to attend one of these seminars. Your life will be forever changed.
