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Researcher and developer Eila Isotalus and philosopher Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila discuss leadership in a multicultural work community. One of the challenges of a multicultural work community is that the members of the community do not know each other’s culturally bound meanings. “Negotiating reality” is a method for learning to better understand one’s own and each other’s meanings in everyday situations.
The need to communicate with each other is one of the basic human needs. Appreciation and sense of acceptance is something everybody strives for.
Mari Käki, a process consultant for creative fields, discusses diary work. Writing can help process relationships, identity and conflicting emotions. It can untangle questions about different stages of life or examine turning points. Throughout the evening we discuss creative writing as a tool for processing life.
John Dewey’s philosophy is becoming extremely relevant for our times. From being one of the best-known thinkers in the world in the early 1900s, Dewey’s ideas went into near oblivion for decades. Now it seems that his philosophy was well ahead of his time. Most notably, he created a new philosophy of experience that enables […]
Professor Emeritus Tom Arnkil discusses his experiences with teaching dialogue in Japan. Dialogue seems to have a tendency to generate new types of inspiration and relationships between people, even from a very different type of culture at the other side of the world.