RHYTHMS OF LEARNING - PATTERNS THAT BRIDGE INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Most studies that examine patterns of individual and organizational le arning stem from similar European American epistemological assumptions . To enrich this approach, this article begins with a considerably dif ferent foundation-the Native American medicine wheel-and constructs a learning framework that has distinct advantages for contexts that are dynamic, diverse, and interconnected. The framework encourages us to p erceive, to think, and to create in ways that are multifarious rather than dichotomous, circular rather than linear, longitudinal rather tha n cross-sectional, and integrative rather than compartmental. We are o nly beginning to understand how different perspectives may all contrib ute legitimate insight about the same phenomena; this article celebrat es this growing realization.