Dialogues on Reflective Practice in a Changing World series, hosted by the Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking, UMass Boston
Friday, October 28, 2022
12:00-1:00pm 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 Creative Self-Care Habits
Possible questions for consideration:
- What do you think are the typical meanings of self-care?
- How do you define self-care? What are some of the issues related to self-care (e.g. mental health, physical health, ‘work-life balance’, ‘burnout’,
- What are the conventional self-care activities that people do? What are the more creative ones?
- What are the challenges or obstacles in maintaining self-care?
- What kinds of experiences or environments are prompting you to give deliberate attention to your self-care?
- Are there creative ways to develop more caring environments around us? What do we need, and what can we offer?
- Can self-care be a collaborative process?
- What does healing have to do with self-care?
- What enables or blocks your own creativity?
- How do we make self-care a permanent and enduring part of our practice?
