A Template for all relationships:
   As a Psychologist and Jungian/Analytically-oriented clinician I was deeply impacted and alsodelighted to be taken on a voyage in some of those familiar waters from an educational perspective by Dr. O’Hara’s excellent book. applied to the teacher/learner dyad, opened a broadened panoramato me of how to regard connections and interactions between individuals.Dr. O’Hara’s deft ability to integrate his scholarly, impeccably-researched and systematic presentation of the contrast between didactic and dialogic model of teacher/learner dynamics with his own personal experiences as an educator, including his account of many deeply personal, warm and poignant tales of personalities engaged in very human interactions is impressive. As I drawn into each of these intimate accounts, I could see why this author chose the Heuris approach as his research methodology. Transcending the limits and constrictions of rigid  role toward genuine encounters with one another is beautifully illustrated here with the frequent use terms like: “care”, “tact”, “openness”,“trust”,“freedom”, “safety”, “mutuality”, “bonding”, “confidence”, “risk”, etc. Dr. O’Hara seamlessly weaves these concepts into the broad and comprehensive tapestry he has woven here for not just the teacher/learner dyad but as a master course and model of what all human interactions could be. In this wonderful book, Dr. O’Hara presents a vision of a world where, what we call “education”, exists and occurs on an entirely elevated plane yet is firmly situated within the institutional and social structures and milieus existing now. He is not waiting for the “system” to change; He is providing a roadmap toward that change.