Dialogues on Reflective Practice in a Changing World series, hosted by the Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking, UMass Boston
Monday, October 14, 2024 (postponed until a later date)
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 Linking Global and Local
For decades, we have been advised to “think global and act local” in how we approach our work and lives, urging us to consider and account for big issues and systemic realities around issues related as culture, environment, economy, and society, for example. What does it actually mean though for the Reflective Practitioner looking to put into action that ideal, or indeed, to challenge and reinvent the ways of bringing together global perspectives with how we operate at the local level? In this session, we will consider where the global and the local meet, and how we can understand think global/act local as more than a platitude. What are the habits and commitments of reflective practitioners are relevant here across fields of work and engagement with our communities and institutions?
