Sharon Bowman is een gerenommeerde expert op het gebied van professionele ontwikkeling en training met bijna veertig jaar ervaring. Haar benadering van leren is gebaseerd op de EPIC-principes: emotioneel, participatief, beeldrijk en levensverbonden. Door middel van zeer interactieve en boeiende ervaringen helpt Bowman individuen en organisaties bij het creëren van onvergetelijke leerprogramma's. Haar methoden zijn ontworpen om kennis niet alleen over te dragen, maar ervoor te zorgen dat deze daadwerkelijk 'blijft hangen' bij de deelnemers.
From Sharon L. Bowman, the author of the best-selling Ten-Minute Trainer, comes the dynamic new book, Training from the BACK of the Room! This innovative resource introduces 65 training strategies that are guaranteed to deliver outstanding training results no matter what the topic, group, or learning environment. Now, trainers can replace the traditional Trainers talk; learners listen paradigm with a radical new model for designing and delivering instruction: When learners talk and teach, they learn.
What is the nature of the fundamental relation we have to ourselves that makes each of us a self? To answer this question, Charles Larmore develops a systematic theory of the self, challenging the widespread view that the self’s defining relation to itself is to have an immediate knowledge of its own thoughts. On the contrary, Larmore maintains, our essential relation to ourselves is practical, as is clear when we consider the nature of belief and desire. For to believe or desire something consists in committing ourselves to thinking and acting in accord with the presumed truth of our belief or the presumed value of what we desire. Larmore develops this conception with frequent reference to such classic authors as Montaigne, Stendhal, and Proust and by comparing it to other views of the self in contemporary philosophy. He also discusses the important ethical consequences of his theory of the self, arguing that it allows us to better grasp what it means to be ourselves and why self-understanding often involves self-creation. Winner of the Académie Française’s Grand Prix de Philosophie, The Practices of the Self is that rare kind of lucid yet rigorous work that transcends disciplinary boundaries.
