When the Esalen Institute was founded in 1962, with an explicit agenda of offering a forum to “everything that is excluded from the Academy,” certainly the youthful founders did not have in mind to invent (or reinvent) ”experiential education” — much less to revolutionize the fields of adult education, lifelong learning, and a number of related areas in education, in the broadest and deepest sense of the word.
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Parlett’s Creative Abilities Model and the Esalen Curriculum for the Human Potential: A Comparative Synthesis
Mapping human capacities, noticing patterns and generating assumptions about how we and other people are motivated and work, has to be nearly as old as those capacities themselves. This activity of course can be implicit or explicit; oftentimes we know a person’s motivations and assumptive set (or our own) inferentially, by observing how he or she or we ourselves behave.
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