Dialogues on Reflective Practice in a Changing World series, hosted by the Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking, UMass Boston
Friday, February 3, 2022 (rescheduled from December 2, 2022)
12:00-1:00pm EST (RSVP here)
Overview:
These dialogues are free and open to the public. Reflective Practice is relevant to any field — education, health care, organizational leadership, arts, and sciences, activism and many others. It refers to ways that we continually develop or change the practices that we use in their workplaces, schools, and lives. Through reflection, we examine our experiences and seek to understand how they can guide us to make those changes. In this series of participatory dialogues, we’ll explore together how we might then relate our individual practices to the bigger picture — the changing world around us. The sessions use a structured Dialogue Process format, a type of group discussion that emphasizes listening well, sharing thoughts-in-progress, and raising questions. The goal is that learning emerges directly from shared contributions of diverse participants, rather than through presentation or lecture, and that participants leave with new ideas around how their own practices can evolve.
Theme: Reflective Practice for Giving and Receiving Mentorship
Possible questions for exploring:
In what ways can we find mentorship for ourselves in supporting our ongoing development and practices? Can we do this informally, outside of structured or mandated organizational initiatives? What gets in the way of us asking for the mentorship that we need? How is mentorship among adults different than how we might usually think about mentorship between adults and young people?
Further, how can we serve others through our mentorship? What would help us to be more accessible as mentors to those who might seek our support? How do we respond to explicit (or implied) requests for mentorship? When we give mentoring (intentionally, or more informally), how do we do this, and what models, frameworks, or intuitive approaches do we use?
