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Live in LA, youth in Detroit, childhood in Graz. Strongest associations are with maturing Waldorf education in America and bringing together social actioneers moving what I call "the new, post-industrial age get-an-inner-life education paradigm" into the mainstream. Most recent project is guest-editor with Eric Utne of the Winter 08/09 Green Money Journal's "Whole Mind Education: A New Paradigm", www.greenmoney.com. More on my blog at www.iJoanJaeckel.com. I'm a member of the Board of Rudolf Steiner College, www.steinercollege.edu, and in the Facilitator Certification Program for The Work of Byron Katie, www.thework.com. The point of all this: you've heard of "bio-mimicry" where we use nature's design to design products and processes that are not only more efficient, but also do no harm. My big idea is to use "neuro-plastic-mimicry" to design an educational system, a curriculum, and teaching methods copied from nature's developmental plan instead of the industrial mimicry we have now.