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License to Learn
$22.99
Life is an adventurous and winding road, and License to Learn delivers a flexible and intriguing map so that you can navigate your own unique journey. With this map, you are invited to see life’s experiences—some chosen, some not—differently, and to make meaning from them in new ways. The key is that the so-called “comfort zone” is truly not the place to be when you want to learn, grow, or develop—except as a place to rest and reflect before heading “out” again.
License to Learn aims to improve your ability to learn from your own life experience, and the genre-breaking format will lure you in with true tales of all kinds to use as examples. With this map as your guide, you can change your relationship to discomfort. And you can become your own best teacher.
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Colleen Stanevich, owner of My Innermission –
“WOW! Can I just say how much I loved it. License to Learn is a provocative look at how we as humans navigate change, learning, and development by stepping outside our comfort zone. Anna’s blend of personal anecdotes coupled with neuroscience and learning theory provide important insight into how we can push ourselves to learn more and step into new challenges in our lives. The visual map that develops provides a guide for the reader. It is a helpful template that continues to stick with me as I consider my own zones of development and how I can be more successful in my own transitions and learning. This book will definitely be one that I return to in future life changes.”
William Martin, author of The Parent’s Tao Te Ching, and A Path and a Practice –
Anna Switzer’s new book, License to Learn, presents a much-needed model for navigating what seems to be an increasingly unknown and challenging life for all in our culture. Drawing on her many experiences as an educator and guide which have focused on experiential learning modalities such as Outward Bound, Anna offers a paradigm that will be immensely helpful for those of us who are facing the unknown. (Read: all of us!)
Dirk Matthias, High School Principal –
License to Learn is a gentle, caring and insightful guide to challenge, change, transition and growth. Switzer’s memoir driven narrative is engaging, self-aware, caring and empathetic, and her re-purposing and superimposing of Mazlov’s Hierarchy upon the Zones of Growth, provides an opportunity to revisit both models, and reassess one’s understanding and application. “License” is a great read for people looking for a reminder of what’s important in the long-run and what keeps us growing and learning.
I have a practice of waking early to read and my first morning with License to Learn I had to tear myself from it to prepare for the work day. The next morning I awoke looking forward to reading more. As happens with books that you love, you hate to see them end, and License to Learn was done in far too few sessions. Sometimes a book arrives in your hands at the right time. License to Learn is like that. When I needed thoughtful insight about challenge, change, transition, and growth it found me, and I’m better for it.
Ken Peeples, Retired classroom and outdoor educator –
My responses in my personal and professional life and when dealing with my students has been largely intuitive. In her book, License To Learn, Anna drills down into the heart of learning using research and scientific exploration and offers me something stronger than my intuitive grasp, but also validates my own experience. She shares her own deeply personal journeys toward understanding in a way the reader will likely identify with. As a model for teachers of all age groups and subject areas she has provided a most valuable map and tool kit. There are myriad strategies here for assisting our students in a way that should be immediately useful. I am slightly in awe of, and highly recommend, License To Learn.
Traci Wilson, Art Educator –
License to Learn is immediately captivating in it’s first pages. This unique look at “experiential learning” not only intrigues the interest for adventure, but also gives permission to take chances and allow opportunity to fail. Anna Switzer shows vulnerability by embedding her own stories of learning via education, career, and relationships. This contributes a strong sense of connection to the author, and guides the reader to utilize discomfort for fuel when approaching any learning opportunity. This book provides a fresh look at how to arrive at any new situation with an appetite to grow and learn and to remember to not take ourselves too seriously.
Dick Cisney –
Great info. Lucky me I discovered your site by chance (stumbleupon). I have bookmarked it for later!
Patrick Muñoz, Voice & Speech Coach (verified owner) –
I love this book! It was hard to put down.
The author, Anna Switzer, is a student of adventure, psychology and life, and this is the story of how she’s helped others transform their lives, all the while growing into the remarkable human being she is today.
It’s an adventure story and tool kit. Anna imparts her knowledge to us through wonderful storytelling, enhanced with practical how-to’s. She helps us identify what’s not working in our lives (anxiety, stress, doubt) and then shows us to how break through those limitations, trust ourselves and dare to blossom.
Anna’s a longtime Outward Bound instructor who uses her experience to help others grow emotionally and spiritually. I love learning from her because she demonstrates clearly how we can continue to push our boundaries to grow and thrive.
“License to Learn” is transformational yet practical, inspirational yet achievable.
Thank you, Anna, for creating a springboard for personal liberation and growth!.
Dorothy Beerger, Licensed Mental Health Counselor –
License to Learn is an exceptional book. The content the tone, and the style captivated me immediately. Anna’s personal stories add depth and color to the model she presents for learning how to expand our experience of life. She has a deep understanding of the stress-response system and the impact of the challenges facing people with residual toxic stress as a part of their biology. . Anna’s book is rich with examples, suggestions, and ideas to create a life filled with curiosity, adventure and resilience., as well as comfort with discomfort. A book to be reread, shared, and put into action!