John Griogair Bell – Arlecchino Malbenvolio

Academic Pursuits

Topics on this page
BGHS	Battle Ground High School
LCC	Lower Columbia College
SCCC	Seattle Central Community College
TESC	Evergreen - Summer '02
PALOD	Power and Limitations of Dialogue
TESC	Evergreen - Summer '03
DIAMOA	Dissent, Injustice and the Making of America
Grad Apps	Graduate Application Essays
PESM	Political Economy and Social Movements
Summative	Evergreen Final Self-Eval
MWSD	MA in Whole Systems Design
C3 Reflections	Reflective miscellany
NCDD	National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation
Ind. Study	Ideas for study

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Papers, Presentations and Posts

1983-1987 - Battle Ground High School

I do not have any of these online yet.

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1988-1990 - Lower Columbia College

I do not have any of these online yet.

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1992 - Seattle Central Community College

• Introduction to Philosophy
  • The Principle of Identity
  • Determinism and Free Will

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Summer 2002 - The Evergreen State College

• Grantwriting (3cr)
• Basic Economics and Public Policy (3cr)

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The Power and Limitations of Dialogue, The Evergreen State College
(48 cr / 3 qtr)

Fall 2002

• In Timber Country
• Compassionate Listening
• The Lives of Animals
• A Force More Powerful
• Beyond Vietnam
• Personal Integrative
• Midterm
• Holler If You Hear Me
• Learning to Be White
• Personal Integrative 2
• Theatre as Dialogue (Draft)

Winter 2003

• Non-Violent Communication
• The Fifth Discipline
• The Fifth Discipline 2
• my five goals for compassionate listening
• my five goals for maximizing dialogue
• Nickel and Dimed
• poetry project - invitation
• poetry project - the promise
• poetry project - the mental monkey dance
• midterm - intial reflections on violence
• midterm - stage 1 - story
• midterm - stage 2 - outline
• midterm - stage 3 - diagram
• midterm - stage 4 - poem
• A Human Being Died That Night
• No Future Without Forgiveness
• The Safari: In Search of the Elephant

Spring 2003

• Spring Syllabus
• Narrative Mediation
• Peace is Every Step
• The Cultural Creatives Pt. 1
• The Cultural Creatives Pt. 2
• Dispute Resolution Center - 20hr Basic Exam
• International Relations and Systems Thinking

  Maps from International Relations and Systems Thinking
  These didn't export very well

  • Democracy [JPG]
  • Economics [JPG]
  • Food [JPG]
  • Imperialism [JPG]
  • Israel [JPG]
  • Militarization [JPG]
  • Patriot [JPG]
  • Privilege [JPG]
  • Threat [JPG]
  • Trade [JPG]
  • Understandards [JPG]
  • Master Diagram [JPG]
• Myers Briggs and Safari Journey Experiment
• Response and reflection on mediation training
• Response and reflection on The Cultural Creatives
• Final

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Summer 2003 - The Evergreen State College

• Irish, Spoken and Sung (3cr)

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Dissent, Injustice and the Making of America, The Evergreen State College
(16 cr / 1 qtr)

• Fall 2003
  • Critical Integrative - Week 1
  • Book response - Week 2
  • Critical Integrative - Week 2
  • Critical Integrative 2 - Week 2
  • Book response - Week 3
  • Critical Integrative - Week 3
  • Book response - Week 4
  • Critical Integrative - Week 4
  • Book response - Week 5
  • Critical Integrative - Week 5
  • Book response - Week 6
  • Critical Integrative - Week 6
  • Book response - Week 7
  • Critical Integrative - Week 7
  • Book response - Week 8
  • Critical Integrative - Week 8
  • Book response - Week 9
  • Critical Integrative - Week 9
  • Book response - Week 10
  • Critical Integrative - Week 10
  • Final - "Analysis of dissent, injustice and the making of the United States: an induction from vitriol to victory; a deduction from justice to jurisprudence."

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Graduate Application Essays

• Public Administration, The Evergreen State College
• Labor Studies, University of Massachussets Amherst
• Whole Systems Design, Antioch University Seattle
  • Application Essay [PDF]

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Political Economy and Social Movements, The Evergreen State College
(16 cr / 1 qtr)

• Winter 2004
  • Response - Week 0 [PDF]
  • Response - Week 1 [PDF]
  • Response - Week 2 [PDF]
  • Response - Week 3 [PDF]
  • Response - Week 4 [PDF]
  • Response - Week 5 [PDF]
  • Response - Week 10 PDF]
  • Economics Test 1 [doc]
  • Synthetic Essay - "Lessons from Assembly Lines for Collective Nation-State Resistance to Globalization" [doc]
  • Economics Test 2 [doc]
  • Research Abstract [doc]
  • Research Paper - "Concentration, Consolidation and Culture - the dialectic over extracting value from social resources in a political economy." [doc]

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Summative Self Evaluation, The Evergreen State College

• Winter 2004
  • Summative Self Evaluation [doc]

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Master of Arts in Whole Systems Design, Antioch University Seattle

Spring 2004

• Systemic Thinking (3cr)
  • Comparative Approach
    • Paper
    • Graphic [JPG]
  • Executive Summary - The Nature of Economies
  • Mental Models
  • Non-Western Systemic Examples
  • Revised System Example
  • Revised System Reflection
  • System Description
  • The Nature of Economies

• Communication Design (3cr)
  • Personal - Theatre as Dialogue
  • Persuasive - Theatre as Dialogue

• Reflective Practicum 1 (4cr)
  • Weekly - What roles do you play?
  • Weekly - What is creative change?
  • Weekly - What does your type need?
  • Weekly - Read the Bridge poem.
  • Weekly - Principles of Spiritual Leadership
  • Weekly - How healthy is the city?
  • Weekly - Experiences of change
  • Weekly - Desire for change
  • Weekly - Design a window
  • Weekly - Consider a conflict
  • Presentation: My Type
  • Assignment 1 - Experiences of change
  • Assignment 2 - Self as reflective practitioner

Summer 2004

• Global Pluralism (3cr)
  • Paper - "The Enemy of my Enemy is not my Friend" [PDF]
  • Diagrams - "Fixes that Fail" [PDF]
  • Paper - "Archetypes, Polarities and Paradoxes in Noam Chomsky’s Pirates and Emperors" [PDF]

• Critical Inquiry (3cr)
  • Comparison - "Comparative Similarities and Differences between Action Research, Participative Research and Participatory Action Research" [PDF]
  • Roleplay Cards [PDF]
  • Directions of Violence Icons [PDF]
  • Paper - "Styles and Techniques of Inquiry — Can there only be one truth?" [PDF]

• Reflective Practicum 1 (4cr)
  • Week 1 Identify a Paradox
  • Week 1 2nd Reflective Practice
  • Week 2 Paradoxes of Belonging
  • Week 3 Challenges for Change
  • Week 4, phase 1, phase 2 Movement and Stuckness
  • Statement of Passonate Interest
  • Case Study Proposal

Fall 2004

• Transformative Leadership (3cr)
  • Concept paper - Roles of Leadership & Followership [HTML] [PDF]
  • Integrative Paper [HTML] [PDF]
  • Creative Project

• Ecological Sustainability (3cr)
  • Ecological Sustainability: What and So What? [PDF]
  • Annotated Bibliography [PDF]
  • Towards a Practice of Ecological Sustainability [PDF]

• Reflective Practicum 1 (4cr)
  • Case Study - "Dialogue in Ireland: A comparison and study of the characteristics of dialogical environments within the context of dialogue-resistant conflict." [PDF]
  • Photo Tour - "Dialogue in Ireland"

• Visual Literacy Studio: Capturing Mental Images for Creative Thinking (3cr)
  • Semiotic Animal Mask
  • in-class visual transformation task
  • Sign of Warning for Distant Generations

Winter 2005

• Design Approach: The Art and Science of Creative Change (3cr)
  • Client project (for Arnar) - [sketch JPG] [design JPG]
     
  • Proposal - "Dynamic Open House Project" [PDF]
  • Presentation [PDF] [MOV]
  • Pitch Sample [PDF] [MOV]
• Strategic Thinking and Planning (3cr)
  • Paper - "Process Comparative Analysis Project" [PDF]
  • Presentation -"Process Comparative Analysis Project" [PDF] [MOV]

Spring 2005

• Reflective Practicum 2 (4cr)

Summer 2005

• Reflective Practicum 2 (4cr)

Fall 2005

• Reflective Practicum 2 (4cr)

• Change Project
• Thesis
• Symposium

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Winter 2007

• Contect-based Design
  • FAST model toward context-based design: On being an “Active Agent” [PDF], visual thinking detail: [JPG], FAST detail: [PDF]

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Reflections on Antioch and the Center for Creative Change

• Case Study and Change Project Spiral [JPG] [PDF]
• Case Study and Change Project Fractal [PDF]
• Cohorts in Caucus [JPG] [PDF]
• C3 Career 1 [PDF]
• C3 Career 2 [PDF]
• C3 Career 3 [PDF]
• C3 Schedule [PDF]
• C3 Career Presentation [MOV]
• Thinking about Sustainability
  • Sustainability as dynamic of new growth plus 100 year old trees [JPG]
  • Sustainability as continuous discontinuity [JPG]
• Thesis Process
  • Thesis process 1 [JPG]
  • Thesis process 2 [JPG]
  • Thesis process 3 [JPG]
  • Thesis process 4 [JPG]
  • Thesis process 5 [JPG]

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National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation

• Fall 2004 - Denver, CO
  • The Contexts of Dialogue
    • Dialogue and Systems Thinking: Building a Bridge for the Practitioner [PDF]
    • Concept Mapping and Systems Dynamics Tools to Unstick Dialogue [PDF]
  • De-Polarizing the Palastinian-Israeli Conflict
    • Compassionate Listening [PDF]

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Ideas for Independent Study

• The Four-Fold Way
• Designer as Mythmaker
  • Spring Syllabus [PDF]
  • Summer Syllabus [PDF]
• Comparative Legal Systems

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