GREGORC ASSOCIATES INC.

Welcome to our website. This is a summer scene at the Mansfield Hollow Dam, 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 Habitat for Humanity St. Mary's University of MN
Bank of America Harley Davidson Financial SAIT (Canada)
BCM International Hartford Hospital (CT) Sacramento County Schools (CA)
BLM Nat'l Interagency Fire Center Harvard University San Bernardino Cty. Schools
Bob Randall Associates, Inc. Head Start Sec. Schools Admission Brd.
Boise State University (ID) IL Principals' Association TASBO
Brigham-Young 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 Arkansas
Cargas Systems JP Morgan Chase University of Calgary
Cendant Corporation Justice Center of Atlanta University of Chicago
Charles Schwab & Co. Kaplan Higher Ed (IL) University of Illinois
Chicago Child Care Society LECOM University of Minnesota
Children's Hospitals and Clinics Lee Memorial Health System University of Missouri
CitiFinancial Mortgage Lesley University University of Oklahoma
Clark County (NV) Schools Life Cycle Engineering University of Tennessee
Coldwell Banker Life Long Learning (CA) US Army, Navy and Air Force
Conflict Resolution Academy Lock Haven University US Dept. of Agric & Forestry
Conoco Phillips Lutheran Family & Child Services US Dept. of Defense
Cornell University Mayo Foundation US Dept. of Education
Crown Consortium Miami University (OH) US Dept. of Homeland Security
DST Systems, Inc. Pasco (FL) County Schools US Dept. of Veteran Affairs
Duke University Penn State University US Environ. Protection Agency
Educ. Service Centers (TX) People to People Ministries VA Commonwealth University
Federal Aviation Admin. Performance Learning Systems Watchguard Technologies
Genzyme Corporation Providence (AK) Med Center Wells-Fargo Home Mortgage
Georgia State University Purdue University Western Illinois University
Girl Scout Council Riverside County Schools (CA) Willamette University
Girls Incorporated Quinnipiac University (CT) WorldMark by Trendwest
FL Assoc, of School Admin. St. Cloud Hospital (MN) Wyndham Vacation Ownership
Habilitative Services, Inc. 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
  • 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"
  • Moral Leadership: A 21st Century Imperative
  • Training for the System-Thinking School Leader
  • Building a Powerful and Productive Team and Board
  • Not Leaving Children Behind is a Moral Issue for Educators
  • Dealing with the Surge of "Dark Forces" in Present Day Personal and Political Activities
  • Enlightened Citizenship: The Road NOT TAKEN and the Consequences
  • The Top 10 Reasons Why Schools Won't Really Change: Ending Our Naivete and Enabling 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 304 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

In a time of universal deceit,
telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

Why are we the one terrible part of creation
privileged to refuse our flowering?
David Whyte

There are six phases of any project:
1. Enthusiasm
2. Disillusionment
3. Panic
4. Search for the guilty
5. Punish the innocent
6. Praise and honor the non-participants
Randall Hoven

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