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Reflective Practice for Fostering Contemplative Workplaces and Schools

October 5, 2022
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Dialogues on Reflective Practice in a Changing World series, hosted by the Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking, UMass Boston

Wednesday, October 5, 2022
7:00-8:00pm ET (RSVP here)

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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 Fostering Contemplative Workplaces and Schools

 

Possible questions to explore:

  • What does a “contemplative environment” look like? What conditions are present?
  • What are contemplative activities, methods, approaches?
  • What gets in the way of leaving space for reflection and contemplation in workplaces and schools?
  • What do we stand to gain from making this space available?
  • Can “contemplation” be practiced? Can it be mastered? Does it need to be?

 

Optional Pre-session Readings: