Thinking for Change
A resource center for critical and creative thinking and reflective practice

"working to develop people's capacity to make a difference in schools, workplaces, communities, and organizations for social change"


For more than twenty years the Program in Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) at UMass Boston has introduced educators and other mid-career professionals to tools and perspectives for innovative teaching, leadership, collaboration, and, most importantly, for continuing to learn. The CCT experience has helped its graduates and associates to contribute to constructive change in their various educational, professional, and social settings and to move their own lives in new directions. To extend CCT's impact beyond its formal programs of study, an outreach organization, Thinking for Change (TfC) (provisionally named), has now been established.

TfC aims to catalyze, facilitate, and support the efforts of people in all kinds of organizations to take initiative and generate constructive change. Participation in TfC projects will allow such "change-agents" to develop their ability to reflect deeply and bring insights to the surface, address ill-defined problems and make tensions constructive, articulate their vision in practical terms and collaborate in bringing it to fruition.

TfC projects are expected to range from consulting on "strategies and solutions" for organizational and individual problems to facilitating longer-term "change collaborations." Such projects will build on the diverse skills and experience of TfC associates in critical and creative thinking and problem-solving, in facilitating dialogue, listening, and participatory planning, in adult and continuing education, and in social justice education and activism.

Planning premises
List of Projects for 2000-1
Planning details
Notes on Projects for 2000-1

Founding Associates
2005-
Reflective Practice Group
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