Published: December 2021

Keywords:
Humberto Maturana, flying, see, instruction, teaching, learning.

Humberto Maturana

Humberto Maturana Romesín is a Chilean biologist and epistemologist. Along with Francisco Varela, he developed the concept of autopoiesis. He is also the author (with Varela) of The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Maturana received a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard and worked with Jerome Lettvin at MIT. He is co-founder, with Ximena Dávila Yañez, of Matriztica de Santiago. With her, he is the co-author of The Tree of Living: Toward a Cultural Transformation, now in press.

Abstract

Humberto Maturana narrates how he learned to fly gliding planes. Is he telling us, trainers/supervisors/teachers/instructors, and how to see, observe, instruct, teach, supervise?