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Using Action Learning to Inspire Compassionate Professional Practices

Explore the purpose and process of action learning as a vehicle for compassion in interdisciplinary professional practices. Reflect on the influence of action learning on everyday practice and engagement with colleagues and students.

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Using Action Learning to Inspire Compassionate Professional Practices

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  1. Using Action Learning to Inspire Compassionate Professional Practices An interdisciplinary Action Learning Set (ALS): Justin Haroun – Centre for Resilience Yusuf Kaplan – Interfaith Adviser Lisa Matthewman – WBS David Morris – Assistant Interfaith Adviser Jenni Nolan – WBS Frands Pedersen – Politics & International Relations Kathryn Waddington – Psychology

  2. Overview Action learning: - purpose and process - as a vehicle for compassion Compassion: - global and UoW contexts - evidence-base Reflections: How has involvement in the ALS influenced how we think about compassion in our everyday practice and engagement with colleagues and students?

  3. This time last year I asked ….. • What role should compassion play in our university? • Why is it important for intersectionality and innovation? • What are the practices that enable compassionate pedagogy? • What next? Action Learning Sets, Action Research? • And here some of us are are!

  4. Action Learning – purpose RegRevans (1907 – 2003) • An approach to individual and organisational development • Uniting ‘comrades in adversity’ and ‘upward communication of doubt’ gives: • Opportunities for individuals to engage in learning and identify action to make a positive difference to the organisation’s effectiveness.

  5. Action Learning – a structured process • Commitment to attend and participate • Boundaries and ground rules • Check in – in order to know what to leave outside ALS • ‘Mindful minute’ at start and end of ALS • Bids for ‘airtime’ – yes/no/maybe – feedback at next ALS • Airtime 20/30 mins then helpful/challenging Qs – not advice • Reflection on process and action/s

  6. Reflections Noticing – the tone of emails Trying to role model kindness to self and others Resist the risk of compassion becoming ‘flavour of the month’ Compassion must not be commodified!!

  7. Next actions for me …. Call for papers: Special Issue of Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice (Dec 2018) Proposal to UoW Press for edited book (Sept 2019): Towards the Compassionate University – chapters by ALS members and members of Darwin International Institute for the Study of Compassion (DIISC) ? Interdisciplinary Darwin Group to progress DIISC agenda in 2018/19 http://diisc.org

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