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Transformative Learning: Explaining Daniel In The Lion

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The birth of my spiritual formation is sitting and talking with grandmother, Jessie Will Rogers, about God after Sunday dinner. Jessie felt that it was important for the grand children to attend West Union Missionary Baptist Sunday school and church and she had these summary books of bible stories in which we read after dinner and discuss. I can remember explaining Daniel in the Lion’s den as it relates to racism and oppression. This was transformative learning through experiences and community support. This transformative learning through experiences and community support continues through my spiritual formation is Sunday school. I can remember my Sunday school teacher being open to my questions and was willing at times to call …show more content…

This is where I believed what my grandfather and grandmother collided and my life had purpose. All my ancestors, from slaves to the present, were living through me and they each deposited their spirit within me to make the next generation life better for me. Conversely, in the Map of the Soul section in the Handbook of Transformative Learning, the author explains Jungian approach to transformative learning as individual as it relates to conscious and unconscious of the psyche. This is in direct contrast to African education where the village is in charge of driving the learning and the individual is more aware of what he/she is being exposed to and therefore is more conscious and less unconscious. I had more conscious awaking at Bethel AME …show more content…

This was the first time I had to work in a group in order for us to reach a common goal of ordination. There were three of us in Board of Examiners and only one was a lifetime AME. The lifetime AME helped us navigate the system of Board of Examiners and we help him with his class work because he was still in high school. Additionally, the theme of working in groups continued in seminary so that all of the African American would complete the M.Div. on the expected graduation date. The death of mother, Rev. Brenda Rogers Edge, shaped my spiritual formation. Mother’s death was transformative because I had to have the support of my community while I grieved. The general manager of my workplace suggested that I enroll in Clinical Pastoral Education in order to work through my grief as the workplace look past the fact that I was not working. Another tragedy in my life that effects my spiritual formation is cancer. This is transformative learning through experience and support. My community, work, sorority, and church, have been supportive and have shared stories and testimonials which has shaped my belief that I will get through this because I have examples of

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