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"Today I am seeing our logo as teaching me that
the tree, or 'stemma' in latin, is simply what it says it is, a tree
of Involvement in life, of my Involvement in life, and, as such, yes,
Experience Teaches, but Stemma Docet (trees also teach)."
"Today, I am hearing the tree simply say that
it is what it is, a tree of Involvement - with these 'C'eas of life
swirling around and through it, being Itself. . . and that is
enough."
"From here I can branch out, as it were, to
allow the tree of involvement to teach me that branching out, reaching
out, both more deeply in myself, like roots, and to greater heights
beyond me now, like the branches above, can teach, not only me as an
Individual, but also can teach us, Collectively, can create a canopy
of knowledge and wisdom surrounding all of us."
"As an individual, I want to open up to as many
ways of knowing and being as possible, branching out like the tree.
This is real education."
"So, what I am learning today is that the CIC
tree of involvement would seem to not only be a tree of intelligent
reflection, branching out into all aspects of life and being,
Individually and Collectively, but our tree of involvement is also a
model for how to grow an organization that is a dynamic learning
environment of student interns climbing through branches and levels of
scholarship and practice, of ability and competence, of community and
leadership."
"The logo reminds me of how we begin; we plant something, it grows
roots, and grows up in to an entire plant or tree, a whole of
something; this is how I have experienced learning at CIC."
"I like how CIC overlaps the tree, stands out against the natural
background of life, sort of emerges into the light from the dark background."
"The Community Involvement Center truly,
effectively, actively implements the motto of San Francisco State University,
"Experiential Docet"."
"The Tree of Reflection bears the fruits of
knowledge, wisdom, virtue, development, community, beauty, ecological sustainability and life
itself."
"The key to the experientially reflective life is
Involvement in the processes of knowing, of caring, of serving, of learning,
symbolized by the trunk of the tree actively carrying the nutrients and
resources of life throughout the Individual."
"The Individual supports the Collective and the
Collective empowers the individual to connect, to thrive, to create life."
"The roots of the tree represent the many, diverse,
community agencies providing services and volunteer opportunities for students."
"The "I" as the trunk of the tree of reflection
represents not only involvement, but intelligence as well, the expansion of
intelligence to all of our reflective dimensions of consciousness, being, time and
wholeness; and all of the Positions from which we experience the
Many Ways of Human Knowing (Mental, Behavioral, Individual, and
Collective) are involved. And the Human intelligences are not limited to the
disciplined dialogue between language and thought as in critical
thinking alone, but are inclusive of all of the dialogues within the self
(that can also be raised to a dialogic of discipline): between emotions
and sensations, culture and context, reaction and proaction, the past
and the future, and between knowing the part-whole and the whole-part of
any element of life."
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A Poem:
the cic
invites me
to see a tree
to be like a tree
like water
like sun
like you
like I
am reaching
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"I have been recently excited to realize that
this logotree must surely be a 'tree of reflection,' complex enough to
be all the qualities that we can attribute to it - as the tree of
life, the tree of learning, the tree of knowledge, the tree of virtue,
and so on."
"Just being there, just my letting it be there,
I see that experience teaches through simple Involvement. Build it and
they will come. Get my many ways of knowing a matter fully
involved and I will learn."
"Being, like the tree, has this requisite
Involvement in life, and this dialogue between the individual roots of
the emerging self and the collective canopy of the diverse expression
of life in the world."
"I see the logotree as symbolic of the
organizational structure of CIC - a program that is based on this
principle of branching out, where through a teaching, training,
supporting, delegating, supervising, we can have many student interns
in our Professional and Leadership Development program at different
levels of learning and competency, climbing the tree and climbing up
the branches of performance and responsibility, assuming increasingly
greater leadership roles, actualizing their potential, reaching to the
sky."
"The CIC logo reminds me of a compass, with the
Tree of reflection pointing you in the right way."
"At first the logo just communicates something positive and
holistic, generally. But after taking the course it has specific meaning.
For example, the roots represent how CIC reaches out into the
community and places volunteers all over the Bay Area."
"To me, the tree of reflection is like the tree of life; I have
learned at CIC that even as an adult, I can keep growing, in fact there is
no limit to my growing, while in CIC, the program provides the water
for my tree to grow."
"The logo's Tree of Reflection, in which the roots reaching down and
out symbolize the depth and breadth of Human Knowing, reflects the
canopy as it blossoms outward to encompass the full range of human service
and experience."
"The Tree of Reflection grows roots deep and broad
enough to support a solid, grounded, individual and community growth process over
time."
"The whole circle encompassing the tree of
reflection suggests a wholeness that takes time All the levels of Consciousness are allowed
to contribute."
"The "CIC Tree" represents education involved in the
community, where real people live and real trees grow."
"The special wisdom and intelligence that CIC brings
to this insight, stated in Latin, that "Experience Teaches," is that in stretching
out to learn from the natural environments of service and life itself,
rather than from the controlled environments of the classroom alone,
critical thinking can and must be expanded, as in the canopy and roots of a
tree, to the more complex and inclusive learning process of critical reflection."
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