GREGORC ASSOCIATES INC.

Welcome to our website. This is a spring scene in Mansfield Center, Connecticut

We are:

a Connecticut-based research, training, consulting and publishing firm established in 1981. Our President, Dr. Anthony F. Gregorc, is the creator of the Mind Styles™ Model, originator of the four style types: Concrete Sequential (CS), Abstract Sequential (AS), Abstract Random (AR) and Concrete Random (CR), and the developer of the Gregorc Style Delineator™.

Our Mission is to:

reddot Prompt Self-knowledge

reddotPromote depth-awareness of
people, places and things

reddotFoster harmonious relationships

reddotReduce negative harm

reddotEncourage rightful and timely actions

We provide:

research-based learning, teaching, and administrative style products and services and presentations and specialized training for:

reddot Self-development reddotSane Moral Leadership
reddot Instructional Improvement reddot Core-level School Reform
reddot Team Building reddot Savvy Enlightened Citizenship

Our clients and customers include:

private individuals, leaders, teachers, professors, consultants, psychologists, mental health professionals, family and marital counselors and clergy. Among the hundreds of schools, businesses and organizations we serve are:

Anthem Blue/Cross/Blue Shield Georgia State University River Valley Comm. Coll. (NH)
Apollo College (AZ) Girl Scout Council St. Cloud Hospital (MN)
Bank of America Girls Incorporated St. Mary's University of MN
Baylor College of Medicine Habilitative Services, Inc. SAIT (Canada)
BCM International Habitat for Humanity Sacramento County Schools (CA)
BLM Nat'l Interagency Fire Center Hartford Hospital (CT) San Bernardino Cty. Schools
Bob Randall Associates, Inc. Harvard University Sec. Schools Admission Brd.
Boise State University (ID) Head Start So. Dakota State University
Brigham-Young University IL Principals' Association TASBO
Butler University International Baccalaureate Texas State University
CA School Leadership Academy Int'l Fish and Wildlife Agency The College Board
Camosun College (Canada) Johns Hopkins Health Care University of Calgary
Cargas Systems JP Morgan Chase University of Chicago
Central Florida Comm. Coll. Justice Center of Atlanta University of Illinois
Charles Schwab & Co. Kaplan Higher Ed (IL) University of Minnesota
Chicago Child Care Society Katy (TX) ISD University of Missouri
Children's Hospitals and Clinics Lee Memorial Health System University of Tennessee
CitiFinancial Mortgage Lesley University University of Texas
Clark County (NV) Schools Life Cycle Engineering US Army, Navy and Air Force
Coldwell Banker Life Long Learning (CA) US Dept. of Agric & Forestry
Conflict Resolution Academy Lock Haven University US Dept. of Defense
Cornell University Loma Linda University US Dept. of Education
DeSales University Lutheran Family & Child Services US Dept. of Homeland Security
DST Systems, Inc. Mayo Foundation US Dept. of Veteran Affairs
Duke University Pasco (FL) County Schools US Environ. Protection Agency
East Carolina University Penn State University VA Commonwealth University
Educ. Service Centers (TX) People to People Ministries Wells-Fargo Home Mortgage
Federal Aviation Admin. Performance Learning Systems Willamette University
FL Assoc, of School Admin. Providence (AK) Med Center WorldMark by Trendwest
Frostburg State University (MD) Purdue University Wyndham Vacation Ownership
Genzyme Corporation Riverside County Schools (CA) YMCA
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PRESENTATIONS FOR DISCRIMINATING MINDS

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

If your group or organization is ready to look at its potential and challenges through new eyes, we invite you to consider the presentations of Dr. Gregorc for future conferences, meetings and trainings. His broad range of experiences, insights, humor and talent for relating to a wide spectrum of audiences have made him a unique national and international speaker.

Below are some of his current speech/keynote and workshop titles:

  • The Mind and Its Styles
  • Applying Mind Styles Research to Classroom Activities
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  • Designing the Schools Again for the First Time
  • A New Essential School Administrative Role: The Minister of Defense
  • Laws of Nature that Unerringly Control the Learning/Teaching Process
  • When Educators Keep Their Words
  • Giving Ichabod Crane the "Golden Handshake"
  • Not Leaving Children Behind is a Moral Issue for Educators
  • The Top 10 Reasons Why Schools Won't Really Change: Ending Our Naivete and Enabling Activities
  • Training for the System-Thinking School Leader
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  • Moral Leadership: A 21st Century Imperative
  • Building a Powerful and Productive Team and Board
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  • Enlightened Citizenship: The Road NOT TAKEN and the Consequences
  • Dealing with the Surge of "Dark Forces" in Present Day Personal and Political Activities

Check the Speeches and Workshop pages on this site for brief descriptions of several of these presentations. Additional topics can be custom tailored to meet your group's needs.

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KEY TENETS OF THE MIND STYLES™ MODEL

The following elements form the foundation of the style-oriented services and products we provide:

  • Every human being is endowed with a uniquely proportioned set of mental qualities for interacting with the world.
  • These endowments manifest as specific behaviors, characteristics, mannerisms and products known collectively as style.
  • Our mental qualities cause us to be attracted to specific people, places, and things that are appropriate for us. They also cause us to reject and be rejected by inappropriate people, places, and things.
  • When we live in harmony with our endowments and environments, we live an authentic life style with a sense of rightness and fulfillment.
  • When we live in disharmony with our endowments and environments, we live a false life style with a sense of wrongness and emptiness.
  • Each of us is endowed with Free Will which continually prompts us to choose between harmony and disharmony in our lives.
  • When we deviate from our true nature, mental and physical discomforts and crises occur as warning signs and opportunities for us to restore balance in our lives.
  • "To be or not to be" true to our inherent nature is a question that no one can avoid.
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Q & A ON STYLE

Dr. Gregorc provides insightful and realistic answers to selected questions on the FAQs on Style page of this site. The questions were gathered from graduate and advanced seminar students, workshop and presentation participants, clients, and from individuals who telephoned, wrote letters and sent e-mails.

All of these questions and hundreds more are included in Mind Styles FAQs Book.

Categories of Questions:

On Phenomenology
On Models
On Mind and Brain
On Harmlessness
On the Delineator and Profile
On Change
 On Student Instruments
On Teaching Applications
On Ethics, Morality, Good and Evil
On the Negative and "Dark Side" of Style
On Resistance
On the Power of Style Information

Both sources offer information for increasing understanding of the breadth and depth of his work.

NO NONSENSE SCHOOL REFORM

This section of our Home Page is dedicated to introducing Dr. Gregorc's unabashed work on core-level reform of America's schools. Below are selected questions that are addressed in his presentations.

KEY QUESTIONS

CONTINUING FAILURE

1. America's attempts to improve its schools will continually fail because they are built on a falsified picture of the world. Why does that picture persist?

NCLB -- A WAKE UP CALL

2. King Baltassar received a fateful, coded warning that was "written on the wall" by a disembodied hand. It had to be "read" and interpreted to be heeded. NCLB is a coded equivalent being presented to the education profession. Will the profession be able to "read" the message and understand its meaning in time?

RECTIFICATION PRECEDES REFORM

3. True REFORM requires the rectifying or removal of some faulty state, corruption, abuse or wrong before real improvement can occur. What specific corruptions, abuses and wrongs must be corrected in order to better America's schools?

SWITCH IN PURPOSES

4. The prime intent of America's public (government) schools was surreptitiously replaced. Why did we decide against preparing our children to live in accord with the original American Dream (Vision)?

CLUELESS CITIZENS

5. America's four mottoes, "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum," "Annuit Coeptis," and "Novus Ordo Seclorum," are printed on the back of the one-dollar bill for all to see. How many of our politicians and 315 million citizens know their meanings and profound implications for leadership, citizenship and schooling?

GIVING THE SHIP AWAY

6. The role of teacher is a vocation (calling) with clearcut accountabilities and assigned duties. Why then has the profession abdicated its inherent purposes, powers, rights and responsibilities to politicians, religious leaders, entrepreneurs and individual parents?

SYMBOLIC CLOTHING

7. Why do faculty members and graduating students wear differentiated priestly garb (robes and hoods) at ritually-based graduation ceremonies?

LACK OF DISCRIMINATION

8. Why have the critical distinctions between teaching, instructing, educating and training been blurred and lost?

SERIOUS ACCOUNTABILITY

9. What would school practitioners be obliged to DO AND NOT DO if their Ethics Code began with the moral imperative, "Above all, do no harm?"

VICTOR AND SPOILS

10. Who and what benefits if the schools fail to fulfill their inherent obligations to the Nation and its inhabitants?

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PONDERINGS

Statesmanship and politics are distinctively different in intent.
The word POLITICS stands for the
"art, science and practice of manipulation to one's own advantage."
Secretariat

He that is good for making excuses … is seldom good for anything else..
Benjamin Franklin

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate
in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He
conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.
Kahlil Gibran

We can be contacted at:
GREGORC ASSOCIATES, INC.
BOX 351
COLUMBIA, CT 06237
Phone or Fax: (860) 228-0093
E-mail: agregorc@att.net
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