Bountiful enlightenment and transcendence : Engaging migrant students with disciplined spontaneity

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer educators and social workers three innovative tools to engage diverse community environments. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology of this paper comes from extensive research into areas of the 1950s Beat culture, humanistic psychology and Bhuddism. The literature has been synthesized to create the tools. Findings – The result of the literature review is three diverse yet helpful tools that educators and social workers can use for to help them serve diverse communities. Originality/value – This paper is significant because communities around the world are diversifying. Educators and social workers need better tools to help their methods become more effective. The authors offer these three tools as a gateway.