Strozzi Institute
Maggie Williams is the Co-Director at Strozzi Institute, where Maggie also serves as Lead Teacher and Interim Co-President. Maggie is a Board Member at North Star Fund and was previously the Co-Founder & Co-Director at The Advocacy Institute. Maggie has also served as a Board Member at Action for the Common Good and as Legislative Counsel at the New York State Senate. Maggie holds a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School and a B.A. in History from Yale University. Additionally, Maggie is a Certified Somatic Coach in Embodied Leadership Coaching from Strozzi Institute.
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Strozzi Institute
Our mission is to produce leaders who embody pragmatic wisdom, skillful action and grounded compassion. We propose a different approach to learning – embodied learning. We begin with the claim that learning is the ability to take actions that were previously unavailable to us. Secondly, we offer a new interpretation of the body that is fundamental to learning. This interpretation challenges the rationalistic tradition, the dualism of mind and body that our educational system has maintained over the past three hundred years. In contrast to this tradition we say that learning is the result of new practices that we commit our body to, not in gathering and understanding information. In the words of William Shakespeare, “By my actions teach my mind.” We challenge the notion that cognitive understanding produces the ability to take effective action. We are not suggesting abandoning cognitive learning. We are saying it is only one aspect of learning. We do see, however, that learning happens in our bodies. When we understand, for example, the power of making grounded assessments, requests, offers, and leading those we manage, but find ourselves incompetent to do so, we see it is necessary to design practices that train our bodies for these actions.
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