PREMISE
Reconnective Leadership is defined by the practice of relational competencies developed and refined over time. The program is a mutual learning space for processing lived experiences through listening, reflection, and recognizing and celebrating each other's gifts. We believe that effective design and facilitation of social arts practices rely on the collective engagement and exploration of lived experience. This is why we offer 1on1, group mentoring, and peer-led spaces that facilitate reflection across the context of one's work life, achievements, and related challenges.
For us, the social dimension of learning is an essential opportunity for engagement in intersubjective meaning-making. This is a significant prerequisite for cultivating the insights and ways of being that shape transformative learning and generative practices of social agency. Against this background, this MA/PhD aims to support reconnection to self, nature, and community through social arts practices.
PROGRAMS STRUCTURE
TRANSFORMATION (Learning Modules) - This module brings the action and reflection modules into play with group sessions where you share your action and reflection with a mentor or peer as part of the transformative learning process you are living through. These sessions are live Zoom sessions or, when possible, in-person meetings where you get to express where you are in your project and reflect and receive honest and heartfelt feedback and support from your mentor and/or peers.
REFLECTION (Action Learning) - This module addresses project implementation and supports the application of action-learning approaches and practices. In addition to receiving ongoing support and monitoring for thesis development and writing from Ubiquity University, you are prompted to respond to a weekly reflection prompt designed to remind you of the value of sustained reflective engagement over time. The goal is to cultivate the habits of a reflective practitioner; consequently, the prompts will generate reflective and reflexive forms of engagement that move across the spectrum of action and reflection in ways that demonstrate a working understanding of praxis.
ACTION (Graduation Project) - This module focuses on the action you are taking (past/present/future) that can be framed as the Reconnective Leadership and Social Arts. As part of joining the program, you commit to “clock” at least 80 hours (spread over a year) of a community project, which aims to create a greater connection with self, nature, and community. This project could be something you are already doing and getting paid to do or something you will ideate, design, and implement during the year of doing the program. The project hours include session/project planning time and could be spread over the entire period or concentrated on a specific period.
