Educator Geetha Waters, explores the impact of a holistic discursive enquiry initiated by Jiddu Krishnamurti in his schools in India, UK and the USA.
The benefit of holistic education can be best determined by individuals who have been fortunate to receive such an education. I have been working to promote holistic education since 1996 after joining Krishnamurti Australia. Holding dialogues in the Theosophical Headquarters in Sydney and Melbourne during my student years at Macquarie (1980s) and later joining Sydney University in 2009 to study their first post graduate course in the early years, I have encountered many questions about the practice of dialogue and its social and psychological benefits to the individual. In 2016, my husband Christopher, an educator and Alumni from Rishi Valley V. Nagabushanam and I began an educational society called STEP to work with independent schools to adopt the practice of dialogue in their schooling. In 2021 after attending dialogues with Kenneth McLeod for several years in Sydney, I joined our Anthropocene Transition Network committee to promote dialogue via zoom during the pandemic years. This blog will attend to numerous questions which have been raised over my life about why and how participating in dialogue from the early years can unravel the nature of thought and free one from carrying on with the heavy burden of cognitive dissonance which destroys human relationships in the world.