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I also wish to recognize Dr. Peter Lavelle, my first mentor, who saw something in me at a time when no one else did and who had the courage to take a risk with me. I have attempted to return the favor whenever opportunity presented itself.
I want to thank my friends—Larry Green, Janos Mate, Hamid Moreau, Karen Fiorini, and my partner, Heesoon Bai—who provided Zen-like support to help me polish, ever-more finely, the final version of this book.
And, I want to acknowledge Auntie Evelyn for being who you are and whom you will meet more fully further along in the text.
Thanks to Gerda Wever of the Write Room and the Write Room Press in Burnaby, British Columbia, for her excellent advice and impeccable assistance.
Versions of some of the essays in this book have appeared and/or have been presented elsewhere. The essay titled We Teach Who We Are and That Is the Problem was presented at AERA 2005. My appreciation to the Canadian Journal of Counselling for permission to publish the essay titled Classroom as Community: Deep Democracy Practice, which was earlier published under the title A Process-Oriented Approach to Learning Process-Oriented Counselling Skills in Groups. The essay titled Who’s Different, Who’s the Same is reproduced with the generous permission of Springer Publishing Company (LLC, New York, NY 20035). It was originally published under the title Dissociative Identity Disorder: Perspectives and Alternatives. My appreciation to Constructivism in the Human Sciences for permission to reproduce the essay titled Dreaming Life: Working With a Personal Dream—On My Own, which was originally published in 2004 under the title Working With a Personal Dream—On My Own. Lastly, a version of the essay The Inner Path and Outer Experience in Classrooms was presented in 2006 under the title The Secret Life of Educators and Students: What Actually Goes on in the Hearts and Minds of Classroom Participants, What It Means, and How to Work With It (and Not Against It) at the 9th Annual Investigating our Practices 2006 Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.