CCTNetwork6Mar2017

Critical and Creative Thinking Graduate Program

Community Open House

Monday, March 6, 2017
7:00-8:30pm ET
On campus: Wheatley Hall 4th floor, Room W-4-170
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.

March 2017 Theme: Reflective Practice to Support Creative Habits

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 Support Creative Habits:
As reflective practitioners, what can we do to engage in those practices that give a boost to our creative thinking or support us in addressing the barriers to creativity in our professional or personal settings? What is needed to take on habits that are creative or lead to creativity? In this dialogue, we'll explore the role of reflective practice as a perspective that supports us to build these kinds of habits into the large and small ways that we carry out our work, lives, and lifelong learning