Wednesday,
Back to the conference and looking forward to the coffee breaks and lunch - the food has been great. The first plenary was a dry (but interesting) lecture on neuroscience by a French professor, Jean-Pierre Changeux. He spoke of the Capable Person as someone who can understand themselves as another (be aware of themselves as a rational, conscious individual).
I went to a double-session run by a group of health-care workers who showed us an innovation method for creative thinking. We had a group of five which include an Italian, New Zealander, British, Swedish and me. Quite interesting and a bit like what I’d learnt at a Proteus conference a couple of years ago in Melbourne. About brainstorming and using random words to associate with ideas and apply them to the problem to see what thoughts a rise. It was good fun and nice to meet some other people. A consultant, accountant, pre-school teacher and an adult educator.
Also went to Goran Carstedt who is a consultant and coach and has held management roles with Ikea and Volvo. His presentation was about Co-creating a Desired Future and suggested that we first need to place our mission, work and organisation into the bigger picture, then we need to organise ourselves by inviting people to co-create (rather than a top-down approach) and then leaders need to take an outside-in approach which is like bottom-up rather than top-down.
Howard Gardener finished off the day and spoke about his project Good Work in Education. He suggests that good work is work that is at once excellent in quality technically, personally engaging and meaningful, and carried out in a responsible and ethical manner. It is important that the conditions that are conducive to this are provided and he suggests the important things to nurture ‘good workers’ are:
• early value systems (often religious)
• the first workplace (internships)
• vertical support (mentors)
• horizontal support (peers)
• periodic booster shots (positive and cautionary examples - like conferences?)
We have been trying to find a public phone booth that will take coins (10 kroners - which is $2!) but all we can find take your credit card. All we need to do is make the first local connection and then we use the 30 digits to make the long distance call, so it seems crazy to use a credit card to make a local call... There are apparently other cards you can get but we must have tried a dozen shops without luck - people look at us crazy and say use a mobile! Then we tell then we want to ring Australia... Use the credit card they say - but that’s expensive. We bought an international card that was such good value, we probably won’t use it all. They seem to have removed most public phones except for at railway/bus stations.
Had dinner with Heather and Phil to finish off the day.
Back to the conference and looking forward to the coffee breaks and lunch - the food has been great. The first plenary was a dry (but interesting) lecture on neuroscience by a French professor, Jean-Pierre Changeux. He spoke of the Capable Person as someone who can understand themselves as another (be aware of themselves as a rational, conscious individual).
I went to a double-session run by a group of health-care workers who showed us an innovation method for creative thinking. We had a group of five which include an Italian, New Zealander, British, Swedish and me. Quite interesting and a bit like what I’d learnt at a Proteus conference a couple of years ago in Melbourne. About brainstorming and using random words to associate with ideas and apply them to the problem to see what thoughts a rise. It was good fun and nice to meet some other people. A consultant, accountant, pre-school teacher and an adult educator.
Also went to Goran Carstedt who is a consultant and coach and has held management roles with Ikea and Volvo. His presentation was about Co-creating a Desired Future and suggested that we first need to place our mission, work and organisation into the bigger picture, then we need to organise ourselves by inviting people to co-create (rather than a top-down approach) and then leaders need to take an outside-in approach which is like bottom-up rather than top-down.
Howard Gardener finished off the day and spoke about his project Good Work in Education. He suggests that good work is work that is at once excellent in quality technically, personally engaging and meaningful, and carried out in a responsible and ethical manner. It is important that the conditions that are conducive to this are provided and he suggests the important things to nurture ‘good workers’ are:
• early value systems (often religious)
• the first workplace (internships)
• vertical support (mentors)
• horizontal support (peers)
• periodic booster shots (positive and cautionary examples - like conferences?)
We have been trying to find a public phone booth that will take coins (10 kroners - which is $2!) but all we can find take your credit card. All we need to do is make the first local connection and then we use the 30 digits to make the long distance call, so it seems crazy to use a credit card to make a local call... There are apparently other cards you can get but we must have tried a dozen shops without luck - people look at us crazy and say use a mobile! Then we tell then we want to ring Australia... Use the credit card they say - but that’s expensive. We bought an international card that was such good value, we probably won’t use it all. They seem to have removed most public phones except for at railway/bus stations.
Had dinner with Heather and Phil to finish off the day.
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