RSVP here to receive updates and confirmations about the upcoming 2023 CCT Alum Studio.

Rationale: CCT graduates often express interest in a continued space for ongoing interactions and community with fellow alums that supports growth and ongoing development as reflective practitioners as we continue extending critical and creative thinking to our wider endeavors. In recent years, the CCT Studio has operated as a forum for hosting a series of ongoing workshops and discussion groups (through mainly virtual participation).

In its current form, the CCT Alum Studio involves commitment to participation with a group of other graduates over the span of one calendar year through occasional discussions and exploratory workshop-based sessions. During these sessions, we bring our own concerns and interests to the group in seeking to understand our own assumptions, questions, and possibilities related to these concerns. The CCT Alum Studio is a space for graduates to engage and support each other as co-learners and peer coaches, re-imagining how we can continue extending critical and creative thinking to our lives and communities.

Commitment to the CCT Alum Studio involves participating within the following structure:

• Once-monthly meetings for about 60-90 minutes throughout calendar year 2023, involving reflecting and learning from each other about our ongoing directions and challenges in bringing critical and creative thinking to our workplaces, schools, and communities. Each meeting will include a brief review of a key tool/process of critical and creative thinking and time for exploring our ongoing efforts in doing work as a reflective practitioner of CCT.
• One month-long collaborative problem-based learning activity in summer 2023, in which Studio participants will meet online for an hour once per week for 4 weeks and take a deep dive into a critical and creative thinking issue of shared concern (schedule and topic TBD).
• Online discussion forum for general posting/sharing of ongoing ideas and support.

Those who join are asked to commit to participate by attending at least 75% of the meetings described above (established each year to meet the best availability of participants).