Compelling Powers

Clark Moustakas describes compelling powers as a magic energy that facilitates bonds between teacher and students which connect them and enhance learning regardless of prior conditioning.

Click on the orange box to access the PowerPoint that overviews the concepts of Compelling Powers, Confrontation, Encounter, Limits, Limitiations, Labels, and Turning Point!

To facilitate change in the learner, the teahcer must:

Challenge learners
Teacher must approach learner as a unique individual
Value individual, avoid comparing with peers
Wholeheartedly believe every learner possesses a “core of goodness” (Moustakas in O’Hara p.147)
Appeal to the inner goodness and innocence in each individual learner.