Reading For Transformation Experiences Book Circle

Reading for Transformation Experiences offers the supportive and challenging ‘space’ required for becoming a better thinker and for constructing the ‘well-made self’ we need to be for an increasingly complex and uncertain world.

Many people today are living with feelings of confusion, frustration, and anxiety about the world in which they operate – they are finding themselves in over their heads.

Relating well to events and making sense of our lives is becoming pervasively difficult and pose daily problems which, not properly addressed by us, can have serious consequences for our well-being.

Many people are also finding life in organisations increasingly problematic as the world becomes more complex and uncertain and are looking for ways to make sense of what is happening for them.

Transformative Thinking is the answer, and this demand requires us to grow our minds to face the more complex and uncertain world in which we live and work.

TKC Book Circle uses specifically selected and sequenced thought-provoking books providing ‘transformational experiences’ to demonstrate our method for sustainably enlarging our minds and progressing whole person development.

Our pioneering approach to transformation of how we think is based on the evidence of frontier research about development in adulthood and is designed to provide the conditions of transformational experiences through which we can grow our minds as part of how we grow ourselves.

Reading for Transformation Experiences shows how, by using the power of reading, group dialogues, and introspection with critical reflection to explore how we think and how we judge, we can continue our whole person development throughout all our adulthood.

This contrasts with the ‘informational downloading’ approach of the quick-fix, ‘airport style’, ‘motivational profiles’, and other formulaic type reading which cannot deliver lasting benefits.

Participants report as one of the benefits of our approach that exposure to transformational reading experiences has opened up new lines of reading, beyond their habitual and professional fare, and prepared them to add and enjoy this welcome dimension to how they are living and working.

Alumni of various sessions have continued with their own developmental reading groups and The Keynes Centre is available to provide facilities and other support for these initiatives.

People have been attracted to this unique venture for a wide variety of reasons, including for personal professional development in private, social, and public activities.

They have joined this innovative programme from all walks and stages of adult life and with diverse interests from the personal to the professional and for work and leisure.

Participants have come from the business, public, and social-voluntary sectors of society with the desire for thinking afresh about the issues they encounter daily.

They have come from a wide range of professions, including engineers, scientists, military commanders, teachers, nurses, doctors, veterinarians, farmers, self-employed, CEOs and other senior executives, and people aspiring to advancement in various types of organisations.

Participants to date have ranged geographically from Dublin, Wicklow, Offaly, Kildare, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford, Kerry, Limerick, and Cork.

Transformational experiences are unique opportunities to search for such insights about ourselves and cannot be taught or learned in the sense of ‘informational downloading’ usually involved in ‘development programmes’.

Our Method utilizes four types of dialogue with the authors, with yourself through reflection, with your reading partner, and with other participants in monthly, three-hour, group sessions over eight months.

The small round-table format providing opportunity for participation and enables participants to harness the energy of shared reading and good conversation to stimulate renewal of mind.

A key aspect of our philosophy is to equip participants for life beyond TKC Book Circle – to show how minds can continue to grow themselves over adulthood – to be independent-minded.

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