Existential Knowledge Foundation

Milestones in Drawing?

Similar to all other activities like walking, talking etc. drawing also has stages or milestones. As in play (cognitive activity), drawing also has implicit rules. We have never taken note of this only because we have seen drawing as art, self expression, skills etc.
For children drawing is a means for enhancing observation and developing imagination.

PHASE 1
29th September 11 AM IST
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Introduction to the topic.

Sharing the research of 3 years research on drawings done by children.
Drawing is the ‘playing’ that children do in two-dimensional space. Drawing is a cognitive activity for children, if we don’t interfere. Like all children ‘play’, all children draw. Drawing is not to be artists, nor a skill but to enable them to make sense of the 3-D world in terms of 2D.

Cognitive Importance of Drawing
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PHASE 2

Starts on October 5th. 7 30 PM IST

Participants are expected to create conditions for children to draw without interferences, document, and share in the group. It is important NOT to draw conclusions immediately. Please spend some time watching what children draw and from that let understanding arise.

HIGHLIGHTS: - WEEKLY FEEDBACK through WhatsApp, ONLINE discussion & feedback sessions twice a month.
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NATURAL LEARNING PROCESS AND THE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN.

DATE 14TH JULY 11 AM TO 12 PM
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Children and knowledge are the most misunderstood aspects in the modern world.

Natural learning is about creation of knowledge, autonomously, of our contexts. Learning, like breathing, is a choiceless activity as learning is the very nature of LIFE. Life dictates what to learn and has endowed us with ‘how to learn’. Children’s natural system gets developed only if we respect their autonomy. The world awakens their senses, retains their sense of process, and playfulness and ‘instils’ knowledge. This enables them to develop their cognitive foundation meant for creation of knowledge.

Only in existential freedom children can function naturally and spontaneously.

Please check out the following you-tube video links.
How do Children Create knowledge? How teaching is detrimental to a child's learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3A-8iI4Py4

What is Knowledge? Implicit and explicit knowledge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IhVFs4b8wA

How schools and toys are damaging children? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z72rbcSpi7o

Storytelling and Reading are damaging for children
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4ZVLDpfzLI

Word and the World form two different Cognitive systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qHZNIEwio8&t=1s
The way our cognitive system forms depends on what we engage with. If we engage mainly with words, reading, reasoning, analysis - we are formed in one way.

Being in Beauty
Reimagining Art
Dates: MAY 1st to 7th, Venue: Thanal, Kiraloor, Velur, Thrissur
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Retreat Contribution: Rs. 15000 (non-Indians $250) For children between 5 to 11 Rs 7,500 (Non-Indians $100) (Inclusive of simple vegetarian food and shared accommodation.)
The Retreat is to awaken SENSE OF BEAUTY and to re-establish our communion with the world around us. The retreat offers an opportunity for re-examining how notions of art have been misleading us from this real connection.
Art is a mental construct whereas beauty is part and parcel of our biological makeup. It is the organizing principle of life that ensures the economy of energy- aptness in action.
Beauty is a dynamic configuration of appropriateness inherent in nature. We are born aligned to this configuration and people in indigenous communities where there is no ‘teaching’ keep up this alignment as they grow up. So naturally what they do turns out to be beautiful.
This is an opportunity to integrate the sense of beauty and learning as a holistic process.
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The retreat is for exploring the damages inflicted by Modernity.

The senses speak to the understanding:

”Poor understanding, from us you took the pieces of evidence and with them, you want to throw us down? This down-throwing will be your fall.”
Democritus

Exploring the difference between Being level knowing vs Ego level knowing.

No hypothesis, No tests, No labs, No machines, No reasoning, No conclusions

Be with the questions, awaken the senses, be in choiceless awareness

Knowing is the nature of life.

Why one learns, is to sustain life.

What is learned, is species-dependent.

What each species learns, is context dependent.

Where and when, is the context.

The context dictates what to learn.

Content dictates how to learn.

Life itself ensures the continuation of life.

Exploring the Formation of Beingness in Humans--

All living beings are ‘creative’ and ‘intelligent’ beings as the context dictates what to learn. Without the context, there is no existence. Can we imagine the live fish without water? Without the context, there is no human existence. But unlike other living beings human beings need sensitivity and wisdom more than intelligence as our formation is very precarious and vulnerable. Their formation is far more dictated by their respective contexts than other beings. They are born with potentials and it is the context that awakens their possibilities. Life needs to be learned from the living and we are shaped by what we experience.
TOPICS

NATURAL COGNITION – the illiterates' cognition

Cognition as effortless and choiceless- the way one imbibes one’s mother tongue or how learning takes place in indigenous communities- traditional artisans, farmers, healers, musicians, etc.

UNNATURAL COGNITION – the literate cognition

‘Cognition’ with effort, as a result of being taught, read, and by using reason.

METACOGNITION among indigenous/illiterate cultures.

Integral nature of ‘why’ ‘what’ ‘how’- value, knowledge & beauty

IMPLICIT knowledge creation to EXPLICIT knowledge

“I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir,
to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to
try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms
and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it,

live along, some distant day, into the answer”.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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DO NOTHING PARENTING
How MAKING toys for children changed the whole cognitive system.
How you created cognitive dependence.
How the transient nature of the product transformed into a rigid one.
How process disappeared from cognition……
Like knowledge is a by-product, the product itself is a ‘by-product’ in the way children’s process-oriented engagement with the world. There is no permanence to any product. It can be used in any way and can become anything in their imagination……
How ‘DOING’ is what caused the problem
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