Course of Climate Change at the UN by Virginia Swain
Will you join us in this course Monday-Wednesday June 4-6 in New York to image the end of climate change and make a timeline to shift its course?
Dr. Elise Boulding and Warren Ziegler created an imaging workshop to motivate behavior in the present by using images of the future. Their theory is that people will not be able to create something they haven’t envisioned. As people imagine a positive future, they then can work back into present time to achieve a different present with a timeline and concrete action steps.
Our final project in the course below, Designing and Implementing Interventions for Community, Institutional and Global Change, June 4-6 at the United Nations, will be designed around the following questions:
“What can participants do to design a process whereby states and people can work together to address amend the course of climate change? How can we create ecological balance while keeping human rights, gender parity, global ethics and universal values in mind? How do we begin to build trust between peoples to address the needs of the earth?
You will learn how to use the imaging workshop process and many other strategies to implement change from the perspective of the Reflective Leader.
Please let me know by Friday, May 25 if you will be attending.
Best wishes, Virginia.
508-753-4172, www.global-leader.org
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Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Patron and Key Presenter, Under Secretary-General and High Representative, the Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States and Landlocked Developing Countries
And Virginia Swain, Founder and Director, The Institute for Global Leadership
A Member of the Global Compact
Invites you to the Course
Designing and Implementing Interventions for Community, Institutional and Global Change at the United Nations
A Course of the Reflective Leadership Certificate Program (www.global-leader.org, Reflective Leadership)
In this course, the Reflective Leader learns how to introduce and sustain change in a resistant system using theoretical and practical skills to create peaceful, ethical, just, humane, culturally sensitive, and sustainable structures and frameworks. The course offers experiential learning as a way to integrate conceptual learning, engenders a cross-sectoral approach to intervening in crises, and elicits participants’ knowledge and wisdom in a course project to amend the course of climate change.
Change Management, Leadership and Conflict Prevention Strategies for Local and Global Challenges Developed Over Fourteen Years For the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2000-2010)
Monday-Wednesday, June 4-6 2007, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York
For registration and other information, www.global-leader.org, click on upcoming.
To apply, call 508-753-4172
Virginia Swain, Director, Institute for Global Leadership, Instructor
Tuition: $595 due by 25 May 2007. Send to The Institute for Global Leadership, 32 Hill Top Circle Worcester, MA 01609 508-753-4172 ext 2. 508-245-6843 (cell). Visa and Mastercard accepted.
This course is for people who are searching for a new way to address institutional, community and global challenges that emphasize respect for human rights, peaceful settlement of disputes, ethics, values and systems that will secure greater ecological integrity, economic and social well being.
The course started in 2001 in a partnership between Virginia Swain, the Instructor of the Course, and United Nations Under-Secretary General Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Key Presenter and Patron of the Course as well as the initiator of the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World (2001-2010) at the United Nations. Sixty-five participants from fourteen countries took the course in its first year.
Participants will learn about a Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service, developed by Virginia Swain and dedicated to the International Decade. Each day begins with reflection in the Dag Hammarskjold Meditation Room.
Virginia Swain is a member of the Academic Council of the United Nations. She is on the International Advisory Board of the Human Dignity Network at Columbia, Global Education Associates and a member of the National Coalition of Deliberation and Dialogue.
For more information about Virginia Swain, go to http://www.global-leader.org, click on “Who We Are”.
Participants will also learn:
· intervention processes to use in community, institutional and global challenges, based on ten years of research and practice.
· competencies for the practice of global citizenship as one of three levels of citizenship.
· how to build a learning community with a conflict transformation mechanism to reconcile differences without alienating one another, applicable at community, institutional, national and global levels.
Potential participants are invited to peruse www.global-leader.org to understand the philosophy of Reflective Leadership and the Global Mediation and Reconciliation Service. All applicants will be interviewed before admittance.
For more information on tuition, registration and general questions, call Virginia Swain at (508) 753-4172 or 508-245-6843 http://www.global-leader.org, click on upcoming. Room and board the responsibility of participants. Participants are required to be in the course the entire time as well as refrain from using cell phones during the course presentations.
Virginia Swain, Director
Institute for Global Leadership
32 Hill Top Circle
Worcester, MA 01609
508-753-4172 (office) 508-245-6843 (cell)
www.global-leader.org