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Leadership & Imagination: Three Days in Spokane

“See and see again.”  Four words.  That pretty much summed up the entire three day workshop for Leadership and Imagination (ORGL502).  Even though this is one of the core classes for my Master’s degree, I left this one pretty late on because it requires a three-day residency on campus in Spokane.  Luckily, this class [...]

March 23, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Gonzaga  No Comments

Gearing Up for Another Class

Last week I wrapped up my Leadership, Justice & Forgiveness class (ORGL532).  Next week I fly to Spokane for a three-day intensive workshop on the Gonzaga campus for my next class – Leadership & Imagination (ORGL502).  The course description is somewhat intriguing:
An examination of creativity in leadership through an analysis of imagination, especially in the [...]

March 10, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Gonzaga  No Comments

The Existential Vacuum

It’s hard to believe that there are only two more weeks left in this class.  I’ll admit that when I first saw the reading list, I wasn’t thrilled.  But, through the first six weeks of the class, I’ve come to appreciate the readings, even if they haven’t really resonated with me.  The readings for this [...]

February 17, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Gonzaga  No Comments

Some Things are Unforgivable

Weeks Five and Six of class are underway.  The texts for this week are below.  So far, I’ve only made it through the Sylvia Fraser book because it really wasn’t a book to which I could honestly relate, and it really took a lot of effort for me to work my way through it.  In [...]

February 10, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Gonzaga  No Comments

Is it possible to grant Forgiveness on behalf of a Group?

Module 2, Week 2 of Leadership, Justice & Forgiveness (aka ORGL532).  The material for this may have been the most disturbing in terms of content – Holocaust literature is never a "fun" read.  Just a quick reminder, here are the books for this module:

Last week, I wrote about Elie Wiesel, despair, and recognizing real suffering [...]

February 2, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Gonzaga  No Comments

Human Suffering and Evil in the World

Going into Module 2 for my Leadership, Justice & Forgiveness (aka ORGL532) class, I have to admit, I was intrigued – especially when I saw the topic for our first posting:
Talk about human suffering, describe its influence in your life and describe the understandings that are influencing you in this class regarding human suffering.  Human [...]

January 27, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Gonzaga  No Comments

Risk-Taking and Forgiveness

Going into the second week of class, we were asked to build on our questions and discussions from the previous week.  Remember that our texts for the first two weeks are:
 
Before I get into the thoughts I shared with my fellow students, I need to pause and reflect on the events of this week.
I’ve [...]

January 21, 2010  Tags: ,   Posted in: Gonzaga  No Comments

Servant-Leadership, Restorative Justice and Forgiveness

A quick foreword is in order here.  Grad School at Gonzaga is back in full swing as of yesterday.  Over the Christmas break, I was thinking about how to capture some of the things I’ve learned from my classes, and I decided to blog them and see what happens.  Now, I’m not going to go [...]

January 13, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Gonzaga  No Comments