User:John Bessa

=By way of introduction= I guess this my current source page until otherwise, as it is hard to know where to put personal data in the wiki-sphere.

Current
I am finishing a masters in psychotherapy, and it seems my talent is with the youthful crooks (to be blunt) as I kind of "get them" (and, most important, "accept" them) as a life-long urban dweller.

Empathy as emotional communication.
My major work is the empathy model, which is a "clean room" model of psychology based entirely on popular conceptions by both people suffering from issues and those concerned about them collected and developed on the Care2.com activist web community. Previously, I wrote Empathy: Spiritual Darwinism or Scientific Buddhism, which turned my mentor-professor around to seeing empathy as an outcome of evolution rather than parental or school learning.

I started humanities with education
I hoped to get into education through the back door via "alternative" routes so that I could stay on my "default brain network," which is (loosely) construcTIVist (and more recently, socially construTIONist).

Saving construtivism
This is my present project that directly fell off of the back of "family systems." If you know anything about family (or organizational) systems...

I developed a lot of text that I will place in a temporary article: User:John Bessa/Saving Constructivism to prepare for a page Constructivism which I will begin from the bottom up by annotating the source material: it will be here-and-now-oriented, only showing older information only as it supports current information, or constructions. (Outdated, orphaned matieral will not be included). I accept that collaboration in the wiki-sphere is really at the level of the wiki and rarely at the level of the data, so I expect to do this work solo with a little encouragement, and perhaps a few hassles, which is not a problem.

=Contact= Please contact me via this email link.