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Esalen History Education 1965: George Brown, professor at UC-Santa Barbara, first began teaching workshops at Esalen on new paradigms of education. His work at Esalen led to the development of the field of Confluent Education (see 1967 entry).
1966: Esalen sponsored "Education in the Year 2000," a workshop jointly led by Richard Farson, director of the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute; George Leonard, west coast editor for Look magazine and winner of more national awards for education reporting than any other writer; and Richard Suchman, Director for the Divisions of Elementary-Secondary Research and Higher Education Research in the U.S. Office of Education.
1966: Rollo May, a leading figure in humanistic psychology, led a workshop on "Education and the Dimensions of Consciousness."
1966: James Bugental, prominent existential psychologist, facilitated a workshop on "Ontogogy: Education for the Human Frontier."
1967 to present: A Ford Foundation grant led to the creation of the Ford/Esalen Project in Confluent Education, joining affective and cognitive learning. Dr. George Brown, a regular Esalen workshop leader and Professor of Education at UC-Santa Barbara, spearheaded the program. His work was summarized in an Esalen book entitled Human Teaching for Human Learning, which sold more than 50,000 copies in the education field and was republished in 1990 as a Penguin paperback. Brown also published a subsequent book called The Live Education: Innovations Through Confluent Education and Gestalt. This project gave rise to 3 full-time faculty positions in the Confluent Education program at UC-Santa Barbara's School of Education, which has conferred more than 80 doctorates and 300 master's degrees. Graduates from this program have taken Confluent Education all over the world. More locally, the State University of California at Bakersfield now uses Confluent Education as its official philosophy.
1968: Esalen's vice-president, George Leonard, drawing upon his reporting background and experience in the human potential movement, published Education and Ecstasy, a radical, utopian vision of education that is still influential today.
1970: Esalen San Francisco sponsored a regular series of lectures and workshops for educators on humanistic education.
1970-1973: Esalen implemented a sub-grant from George Brown's Ford Foundation work in which fourteen teachers and principals spent three years training in Esalen techniques and then applied such methods to their work in education.
1971: Esalen's education work, under the direction of Sukie Miller, was awarded a Title-III grant from the state of California for a demonstration program in confluent reading in the Newark school system.
1973: Esalen seminars on education became available for academic credit through the UC-Santa Barbara extension program.
1977: Esalen created the Gazebo school under the guidance and vision of Janet Lederman, a regular seminar leader on educational subjects, an innovative teacher, and author of Anger and the Rocking Chair. The Gazebo became a long-term experiment in applying new principles to the field of education.
1987: Invited conference on "Early Childhood Education for the '90's," convened by Janet Lederman.
1990:The book Human Teaching for Human Learning,which had grown out of Esalen's support for Confluent Education, was re-published as a Penguin paperback.
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