(We will be providing coffee & water - bring your own snacks -- and lunch, if staying longer - Just 2 miles from Mary Charles' pre-pandemic SIG home).
Greg Whitt was recently awarded a project grant to develop a collection of essays based on contemplative practices learned in the Transformative Leadership and Social Change program at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. These ideas are based in personal development and ontological design. They are readily adapted for personnel development as a means of helping to shape workplace culture. In this session, Greg shares some of these ideas as food for thought and opportunities for discussion.
Participants will be given a list of 31 ideas that just might make life better for everyone. You'll be asked to explore those concepts in small groups. Following the discussion sessions, groups will synthesize and summarize their take-aways and share them with the larger group in fun, creative and engaging ways. It's a great opportunity to demonstrate that serious things can also be joyful.
NOTE: A documentarian with pen and paper will be handy for each group. Cutter & Off bug spray (or BYO) and folding chairs will be provided for this outdoor event.
GREG WHITT, Educator & Facilitator, Drum for Change, facilitates workshops and retreats designed to connect people to one another and to the world around them. He studied holistic lifestyle practices in graduate school through the Transformative Leadership and Social Change program at the Maryland University of Integrative Health. His studies focused on wisdom traditions to benefit modern society and these support his work leading interactive and experiential education programs.
Greg facilitates programs designed to creatively connect people in ways that are joyful, engaging, and good for you. These programs are actually hands-on philosophy about how we can live, work, and play well together in community, only they're cleverly disguised as music, and they're delivered as interactive engaging fun.
This session will encourage small group discussion, collaborative problem solving, and creative presentation skills. The topic will explore personal and professional practices to help make the world a better place for each of us, and for everyone around us, particularly in those places where we hope to work well with others.
NOTE 1: The Change SIG is now SEARCHING for several Zoom- comfortable people to join a group producing our programs on a rotating basis:
-- Update the Google Drive agenda used to manage the programs and insert handout(s), if any
-- Handle 4th Friday Zoom details 8:15-10:45 AM Eastern
-- Do a 30-minute tech check 4th (or 5th) Monday or Tuesday, with speaker(s) & Mary Charles
NOTE 2: Do you have an idea to polish or a presentation to try out? The Change SIG is looking for 2022 speakers (June & September).
For more information, contact SIG leaders, Mary Charles Blakebrough (919-656-9573) or Vickie Bevenour.
