Root pressure: MIT's Experimental Study Group since 1969, Given when it began, did hippies at MIT help create it experimentally and sustain as it developed as the times changed through to today?, MIT OCW course on Happiness taught by Dr. Holly Sweet, MIT's ESG - http://esg.mit.edu - dovetails with MIT OCW's ESG - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/index.htm, Curious how to focus online "Counseling" at WUaS both for matriculated students, as well as for anyone seeking counseling, and possibly for online Ph.D.s, (but WUaS is fairly CC MIT OCW-centric and CC Yale OYC-centric), Anger, from a counseling perspective, is an interesting theoretical question, Meditation/Yoga perspective which touches on meditation, hippy culture, changing focus, How A.I., machine learning and machine translation will inform some of these counseling and psychology (degree) questions may also be central to WUaS over time, Lots of possibilities in terms of a WUaS Experimental Study Group here ... Perhaps its creative courses can inform a specific group of matriculating online first year students at WUaS - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/index.htm ...

MIT's Experimental Study Group since 1969 ...

Given when it began, did hippies at MIT help create it experimentally and sustain as it developed as the times changed through to today?


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MIT OCW course on Happiness taught by Dr. Holly Sweet ...

As a followup, here's a MIT OCW course on Happiness taught by Dr. Holly Sweet, (former associate director of MIT's Experimental Study Group) -

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/es-s60-the-art-and-science-of-happiness-spring-2013/

- which is part of MIT's Experimental_Study_Group itself.

As a pragmatic example of someone who may be a successful counselor in an urban area, here's more about Holly Sweet, who has a Ph.D. in counseling from Boston College -

http://www.drhollysweet.com/about-me.html

http://locator.apa.org/DrHollyBSweet

http://web.mit.edu/hbsweet/www/
"I am also the Associate Director of the Experimental Study Group, an alternative academic program for freshmen at MIT."
... formerly, I think (see - https://officesdirectory.mit.edu/esg):

Given the long hair in this photo, hippies have been generative of MIT's ESG from the beginning ...
(http://web.archive.org/web/20160811043717/http://web.mit.edu/hbsweet/www)

Looks like she also teaches or has taught at MIT's Experimental Study Group - which is for first year MIT students -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_Study_Group -

something WUaS could eventually possibly emulate ...

Best, Scott

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And MIT's ESG -  http://esg.mit.edu - dovetails with MIT OCW's ESG - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/index.htm ...

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Here's Holly Sweet at MIT in an

Interview with Holly Sweet
MIT's Experimental Study Group


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhk_cCn5INA

Interesting ...

Scott

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Curious how to focus online "Counseling" at World University and School both for matriculated students, as well as for anyone seeking counseling, and possibly for online Ph.D.s, (but WUaS is fairly CC MIT OCW-centric and CC Yale OYC-centric).

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Liking to think a little theoretically and broadly - and both re online Psychology at World University and School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Psychology - (check out the MIT OCW here as well as the "Counseling" wiki subject in the "Links" section) - planned in many languages - as well as a recent Reed College graduate's possible interests in studying for a Counseling Ph.D., I wanted to share the following ideas, and wonder what you think.

In looking for a possible great counseling Ph.D. program (and thinking about this for WUaS online in many languages), it makes sense to me to talk with Jennifer Henderlong Corpus -
http://www.reed.edu/psychology/faculty/corpus.html - is she still department chair? (or other Reed professors whose thinking you like) - which you may already have done. (I may too, seek to talk with
her, Dell Rhodes, Kathryn Oleson or Kristen Anderson - and over the Reed reunion). I appreciate greatly the excellence and California laid-backness of Stanford, from which Jennifer Corpus has her Ph.D. but noticed too that Stanford doesn't offer a counseling Ph.D. program - https://psychology.stanford.edu/gradprogram (although this list - https://www.socialpsychology.org/gcounsel.htm - suggests Stanford's social psychology degree as an approach to counseling). McGill and Columbia also look interesting to me for Counseling Ph.D.s. Studying at an excellent university seems to have much merit in my thinking - and Stanford / MIT / Harvard / Yale top my list - and WUaS seeks to become a kind of online Stanford/MIT/Harvard of the internet and in all countries' main languages. What universities are you thinking about, if you are? What is your thinking here? What are your thoughts here, G? I'm curious especially for WUaS).

...

I have interests in theorizing psychology re talk therapy - see my Jan 1 blog post ...

Pollination: A new online California School of Psychoanalysis, Lacan (post Freud) and subsequent great psychoanalytic theorists don't take into account Pairbonding + per John Money's 5 "Concepts of Determinism" for example - http://scottmacleod.com/anthropology/determinism.htm, Samsung Galaxy Note Pro - eventually for REAL, REAL time music making {and in the WUaS Music School?}, Getting the analyst-analysand communication process "correct" and theoretically and actually therapeutically helpful, A.I. seems to offer the possibility of speeding up the traditional 3-5 year course of psychoanalysis, World University joins with MIT in wishing you a wonders-of-discovery filled New Year

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/01/pollination-new-online-california.html - but am not sure how this will unfold online at wiki CC MIT OCW-centric and CC Yale OYC-centric World University and School yet in any way. Psychology degrees at WUaS will focus partly on experimentalism online, like one of Reed's foci, but WUaS would also like to offer online counseling - and based on great thinking (and theory?) ... but this is all unfolding.

Anger, from a counseling perspective, is an interesting theoretical question - how best to counsel someone with anger, or comes to a counselor with issues about anger? - and I posted this recently to my Yoga G+ page this perspective from Jessica Mullen -
https://plus.google.com/+ScottMacLeodYogaMacFlower/posts/18enustgfXo - which touches on a number of aspects I think about in these regards (including meditation, hippy culture, changing focus,+) ... but there are so many approaches to anger - and theoretically from a psychology counseling Ph.D. perspective. And a psychoanalyst would approach such questions very differently (as subculture too) from a CBT person ... with very different measurable outcomes. What has MIT's ESGs learned approach-wise in these regards, I wonder?

It might be interesting to communicate further over time how to counsel a client who has much anger in counseling - as a theoretical question (and as our thinking develops). As an experienced life coach/facilitator, what are some of your thoughts here, G?

How A.I., machine learning and machine translation will inform some of these counseling and psychology (degree) questions may also be central to World University and School over time ...

(Looking forward to Reed Reunions' Marketplace and re my actual-virtual
Harbin ethnography ...
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/kelp-forest-deep-california-i-think-im.html
... Glad, too, the UC Berkeley Anthropology Library now has it ...
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/03/loggerhead-sea-turtle-my-naked-harbin.html
... G, any chance you will be at Reed's reunion this year?)

Hoping this thinking and idea sharing email finds you both well. Greetings from Stanford :)

Best,
Scott


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Lots of possibilities in terms of a WUaS Experimental Study Group here, and wiki-wise ...

Perhaps its creative courses can inform a specific group of matriculating online first year students at WUaS - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/experimental-study-group/index.htm

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY GROUP COURSES

Course #	Course Title	Level
ES.010	Chemistry of Sports	Undergraduate
ES.113	Ancient Greek Philosophy and Mathematics	Undergraduate
ES.21W732	Science Writing and New Media	Undergraduate
ES.240	Composing Your Life: Exploration of Self through Visual Arts and Writing	Undergraduate
ES.242	Gender Issues in Academics and Academia	Undergraduate
ES.246	Current Events and Social Issues	Undergraduate
ES.253	AIDS and Poverty in Africa	Undergraduate
ES.255	Physics of Rock Climbing	Undergraduate
ES.256	The Coming Years	Undergraduate
ES.258	Gödel, Escher, Bach	Undergraduate
ES.259	Information and Communication Technology in Africa	Undergraduate
ES.260	Women's Novels: A Weekly Book Club	Undergraduate
ES.261	Poetry in Translation	Undergraduate
ES.268	The Mathematics in Toys and Games	Undergraduate
ES.269	Passing: Flexibility in Race and Gender	Undergraduate
ES.272	Culture Tech	Undergraduate
ES.287	Kitchen Chemistry	Undergraduate
ES.291	Learning Seminar: Experiments in Education	Undergraduate
ES.292	Writing Workshop	Undergraduate
ES.293	Lego Robotics	Undergraduate
ES.298	Art of Color	Undergraduate
ES.333	Producing Educational Videos	Undergraduate
ES.801X	Physics I: Classical Mechanics with an Experimental Focus	Undergraduate
ES.8022	Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism	Undergraduate
ES.802X	Physics II: Electricity & Magnetism with an Experimental Focus	Undergraduate
ES.S10	Drugs and the Brain	Undergraduate
ES.S41	Speak Italian With Your Mouth Full	Undergraduate
ES.S60	The Art and Science of Happiness	Undergraduate
ES.S71	Increasing Your Physical Intelligence, Enhancing Your Social Smarts	Undergraduate

ARCHIVED EXPERIMENTAL STUDY GROUP COURSES