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  1. Marga Biller

    Can Everyone Reflect?

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    The November 2012 Chair Call featured Dr. Lisa Lahey, co-founder of Minds at Work, Instructor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-author of Immunities to Change (with Dr. Robert Kegan).  Dr. Lahey walks us through key concepts in adult developmental psychology which suggest that certain stages of adult development pose particular challenges when confronted with reflective opportunities. She will provoke us to consider differences in “socialized” vs “self-authoring” ways of making meaning and what can be done to create the conditions for adults to develop more complex capacities for reflection in the workplace.          ...
  2. Marga Biller

    Unlearning Urban Traffic Engineering and Street Design with Ben Hamilton-Baillie

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    In our own organizations, we often try to improve performance by clearly defining work processes and procedures expecting that these will produce the expected outcomes. Yet in many cases they don’t. By exploring the Shared Space approach, we hope to gain some insights into such questions as: How might we identify what needs to be unlearned before trying a systemic change? What systemic mindsets and habits have to be unlearned before change can be initiated? Does unlearning have to occur simultaneously throughout the whole system or can it be a gradual and in pockets? How do you design systemic cues into the environment in order to prompt different actions and sustain the new behaviors ?

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