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Courage to Lead in the Law: Ethics and Professionalism "Beyond the Rules" A weekend retreat for legal educators and administrators, based on the Circles of Trust model developed by Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage and Renewal.
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11-14, 2006 This Courage and Renewal Retreat, made possible by a generous grant by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, was created by the collaborative efforts of:
Based on the work of Dr. Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage and Renewal in Seattle, Washington, Courage and Renewal for Criminal Justice Professionals provides an opportunity to step back from one’s busy day-to-day challenges and consider “the larger picture.” Experiential in nature, it offers a time of personal reflection and transformation – a chance to examine questions that lie at the heart of who you are and what you do in your work and your life, and how and where they intersect. We invite you to apply for Courage and Renewal Retreat for Criminal Justice Professionals (link to pdf).
Application deadline: August 11, 2006 |
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Communicating Values in Today’s Corporate Legal Culture: The Role of Storytelling To help lawyers learn about how leaders can use narrative to transform corporate legal culture, the Center for Law and Renewal invited author Stephen Denning to lead Minneapolis lawyers in a day-long, hands-on workshop in February 2007 at Dorsey & Whitney law firm. Author of The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling: Mastering the Art and Discipline of Business Narrative, Denning offered his experience at the World Bank and in the field of knowledge management as ways to communicate ethics and values in the field of law. |
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Shifting
the Field of Law and Justice Retreat: On January 23-25, 2006, the Centre convened 22 law and justice leaders and educators to share information about existing communities of practice and learning strategies that seek to shift the field toward a healing and the law orientation. Representatives of law schools, bar associations, university-based leadership academies, private law firms, courts, and public interest law training organizations explored together a variety of experiential learning models that promote collective change in the law through personal transformation. Out of this gathering emerged a clearer vision of new possibilities for transforming the field at the personal, institutional and community levels; the principles and values underlying the desired new possibilities; and the types of practices and learning strategies most likely to support transformation. (Click diagram at right) Participants also explored strategies for building a national learning community that could support a variety of communities of practice. |
Possibilities, Principles and Practices diagram
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Mississippi Spirit of Justice Retreat In collaboration with the Fetzer Institute’s Generosity of Spirit project and the Mississippi Center for Justice the Centre sponsored a retreat that brought together a diverse group of community leaders, including private and public interest lawyers, judges, educators, philanthropists, government officials, clergy, and grass roots activists. As the catalyst for a community healing project for post-Katrina Mississippi, the retreat’s goal was to expand and empower the circle of participants (both lawyers and non-lawyers) in Mississippi’s historic movement to end discrimination and poverty. Using the Generosity of Spirit curriculum [see: www.learningtogive.org], the retreat created an atmosphere for participants to share their individual stories and gifts, and identify what roles they want to play in writing a new collective story of Mississippi as The Social Justice State. Moving between the personal and the collective, the retreat format encouraged participants to explore how the inner work of becoming more authentic and “known” in the company of their colleagues could liberate personal and collective gifts for healing social justice problems. At the end of the retreat, participants acknowledged the tremendous value of creating space for work that renews, revitalizes and transforms – in the midst of the tactical work needed to advance justice and racial reconciliation. The Centre, in partnership with the Fetzer Institute, local funders and other Mississippi-based institutions, hopes to offer Generosity of Spirit retreats to other groups in the state, including higher educational institutions, bar groups, faith-based communities, and racial reconciliation groups. |
