CCTNetwork3Apr2017

Critical and Creative Thinking Graduate ProgramCommunity Open House

Monday, April 3, 2017
7:00-8:30pm ET
On campus: Wheatley Hall 4th floor, Room W-4-170
Join online: by Google+ Hangout at http://tiny.cc/CCTRefPrac
The Hangout will be open around 10 minutes before the start time. When you go to join the online room, you will be able to request access to enter the Hangout, and then wait to be brought in - it may take a minute or two). See other hangout tips.
For more information or to RSVP: cct@umb.edu.

April 2017 Theme: Reflective Practice to Build Resilience Through Life Transitions

Graduate Program in Critical and Creative Thinking, University of Massachusetts Boston

Part of the series of spring 2017 Dialogues on Reflective Practice in a Changing World
Reference: Five Phase Format

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 people continually develop or change the practices that they 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 directions to the bigger picture -- the changing world around us. The sessions use a Dialogue Process format, centered around a group discussion where participants hear what others are saying and take a turn to speak when they are ready, and where the discussion emphasizes listening well, sharing thoughts-in-progress, and raising questions to help us get clear in supporting us as developing reflective practitioners. The goal is that learning emerges directly from the discussion among all participants, rather than through presentation or lecture.

On the theme of Reflective Practice to Build Resilience Through Life Transitions:
What is the role of reflection in preparing us for transitions that occur as we change our lives, workplaces, and communities? How can we become reflective practitioners by taking deliberate steps to prepare for transitions, whether they are prompted by external events or internal motivations? If the only constant is change, how can we put ideas into action when that change is unpredictable, unavoidable, or contrary to our expectations? How can the choices that we make in our individual actions contribute to resilient communities? In this dialogue, we'll explore possibilities for making meaning of our past experiences as we approach and face change.