Dialogues on Reflective Practice in a Changing World series, hosted by the Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking, UMass Boston
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
7:00-8:00pm ET (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 Managing Shifting Career Paths
Questions for consideration:
How did you understand the idea of “career” (or career path) at various points of life:
—before you entered the working world?
—at the point where you first entered the working world?
—at other key moments?
—at the current time?
How have your expectations been met (or not met) about the overall career path that you would take?
What do you see in the emerging future in your own career?
What is involved in being a “reflective practitioner” as you encounter this future?
