splitrock thinking

Creative strategies of a problem-solving and story-telling people

Category: Thinkers

  • Thomas Kuhn

    Splitrock Thinkers are often involved in what Jewish born Thomas Kuhn called a “Paradigm Shift.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift : A paradigm shift is a fundamental change in the basic concepts and experimental practices of a scientific discipline. It is a concept in the philosophy of science that was introduced and brought into the common lexicon by the American physicist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn. Even though Kuhn restricted the use…

  • Buckminster Fuller on “Splitrock Thinkers”

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    Buckminster Fuller’s observation of the role of the Jewish People: For Fuller, the uniqueness of the Jewish people in the universe is “their contribution to mankind’s welfaring and environmental conquest, being the preservation of those arts and proclivities which may be kept alive only through, economics of intermittent emergency mobilization.” (13-) These arts and proclivities are survival skills, developed through historical necessity.…

  • Fritz Perls – “Response-Ability”

    with his so-called Gestalt prayer, Fritz Perls parallels a saying that originated with one of the Hasidic masters.   First the Gestalt prayer:  “I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations and you are not in this world to live up to…

  • Alvin Toffler -“Coping with Future Shock”

    Future Shock and the synagogue

  • Splitrock Thinking by Jewish Pioneers of self-discovery

    Jewish Pioneers of self-discovery – Contributors to Jewish Ethnotherapy In building on the creative strategy of Jewish Ethnotherapy, Split Rock Thinking benefits from the lessons of a number of Jewish born pioneers of self-discovery including Viktor Frankl, Kurt Lewin, Abraham Maslow, Fritz Perls and Jacob Moreno. While far from an exhaustive list, each of the…

  • Adina Allen-“Making Art of IT”

    the Jewish Studio Project https://www.jewishstudioproject.org

  • Miriam Heller Stern

    Miriam-Heller-Stern-keynote-from-110922-Edu-Conf_Kaplan-Creativity-and-Jewish-Education FACET 1: Creativity as Interpreting  Animated by curiosity and a quest for understanding, interpreters can ask “What could this mean? What does this mean to me? How does this impact others?” They can pose and answer questions about meaning and impact in a variety of life’s situations, using a range of lenses, tools, hermeneutics,…

  • Ya’akov Agam

    “Out of the deep conviction that in the foundations of Judaism is buried a rich treasure of expressive values which, if once released in plastic form, might enrich the entire world” (Agam’s Artist Credo)

  • Moshe Dror – “Cyber Ohr” -Cyber Light

    Boundary Crossing – Paradigm Busting This is a series by Dr. Rabbi Moshe Dror. He was a futurist, lecturer and teacher. In this series he explored the hidden meanings of the great stories of the Bible. In this time of profound changes Dr. Dror helped unpack some of the hidden gems waiting to shine light…

  • Mel Alexenberg -Activating our Cyber Angels

    Cyber Angels, data packets, when we use cyber technology.. “Moreover, digital data packets in cyberspace provide a good analogy for angels themselves. In Jewish tradition, angels are discrete data packets in the immaterial World of Formation. Each angel packet is an abstract manifestation of data that we, in our World of Action, call emotions or…