Hope in Action: Healing Practices of Power and Possibility (WCW Lunchtime Seminar Series Presentation)

Date: March 5, 2009 • 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Presenter: Maureen Walker, Ph.D.
Location: Cheever House, Wellesley College

Noble intentions alone are insufficient to advance a social action agenda. Indeed, the hopes and aspirations on which social justice organizations are founded often dissipate under the weight of a power paradigm that normalizes relational constriction and hyper-control. The inevitable outcome of such a paradigm is an organizational culture of disconnection: a culture that functions to contaminate conflict and to stifle creativity. This talk will examine the power beliefs and relational practices that foster conflict-competent organizations, in which initiatives toward transformation and new possibilities may be exercised from any position in the power structure. In addition, Walker will discuss the behavioral correlates of empathy, authenticity, and mutuality—the relational competencies required to sustain an agenda of hope, justice, and healing.

Lunchtime seminars are free and open to the public. Bring a lunch; coffee and tea will be served.

Wellesley Centers for Women – Cheever House
828 Washington Street (Route 16), Wellesley, MA

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