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Action Learning: Assessing the Value
Following our successful experience of March 2008, we invite practitioners, academics and managers to a second International conference to share ideas and advance the practices of action learning worldwide. The conference will interest all those concerned with action learning for personal development and systems improvement in commercial, public service, SME’s ‘third sector’ and community contexts. It will employ interactive methods of working and have a delegate limit of 120 people. As the editorial team of Action Learning: Research and Practice we aim to convene a conversation between diverse perspectives via thematic provocations, papers, presentations, workshops and refl ective plenary sessions. Amongst those themes illuminating Action Learning:
Assessing the Value are:
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Addressing the wicked issues & asking the hard questions in organisations and societies
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Sustainability, survival & revival in businesses & communities
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Creating new energies and working with differences
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Making spaces & working across professional, organisational and cultural boundaries
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Research & evaluation in assessing outcomes & impacts
This conference is organised by a group associated with the Journal Action Learning: Research and Practice, a Special Issue of which will follow the conference. The team comprises: Mike Pedler (Henley Business School); Kiran Trehan (University of Lancaster); Jeff Gold (Leeds Metropolitan University); Aileen Lawless (Liverpool John Moores University), David Coghlan, (Trinity College, Dublin), Clare Rigg (Institute of Technology, Tralee), Sue Pritchard (Bath Consultancy Group); Helen James (Henley Business School) with support from Joe Raelin (Northeastern University, USA).
Date 29 - 31 March 2010
Location Henley Business School,
Greenlands, Henley on Thames, Oxon.
RG9 3AU
Cost The all-in Conference rate of £400 (plus VAT) includes two nights’ accommodation and meals. (NB This “Early Bird” rate will apply to all bookings until 31.12.2009, rising to £450 (plus VAT) thereafter).
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| Transformative Learning Conference
Hamilton Princess Hotel - Bermuda
November 18th - 20th, 2009
Reframing Social Sustainability in a Multicultural World
We hope to see you at the second Transformative Learning Conference outside the U.S.A. We broke ground in 2001 in Toronto (OISE) with a focus on First Nations and “native” cultures. In 2007 we shared Hispanic culture in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2009, we invite you to experience transformative learning in Bermuda in pursuit of reframing social sustainability in a multicultural world!
The unique roofs of Bermuda, hundreds of years old, evoke the values of sustainability (Bermuda Hotel Association). A thin wash of cement covering the entire roof is painted with a nontoxic paint so rainwater is kept as pure as possible on its way to cisterns and is reapplied every few years (information).
Come to Bermuda to engage in dialogue around Transformative Learning Theory and social sustainability. Follow in the tradition of the Transformative Learning Conference by advancing the theory, research, and practice of the field in dialogue with others!
Social Sustainability
Social sustainability calls for rethinking and transforming basic ideas about life itself. Dr. Hina Pendle of iGreenbuild.com describes: "Many of us are looking for life-affirming ways of seeing, doing and being that don’t compromise the present or the future wellbeing of life on earth... Western civilization is indoctrinated with over 5000 years worth of conditioning to conquer and fight or flee and hide. All that conditioning is habitual, unconscious and unexamined. Our current model of leadership and support comes from this era.
How do we move into the future consciously and deliberately? By asking bigger questions about our values, our purpose: What’s important to us? What are the consequences of our actions? How do we relate to one another, our communication and considerations?”
Transformative Learning
When people learn in transformative ways, they recognize how their actions have been based unconsciously on beliefs, values, feelings and judgments assimilated from others. They often reframe their deepest understanding of how things work personally and professionally... and in the groups, communities, organizations and society in which they live and work.
Transformative learning looks and feels very different in different cultures. This conference will explore differences through global voices in a truly multicultural setting — in light of social sustainability.
For more information please click on the following link:
http://www.transformativelearningbermuda.com/Transformative_Learning_QID.html
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