February 7 – 11, 2011
Allan Kaplan
This course is part of a three week series Transformative Development.
This series of courses will explore the changing face of development. The context in which we look at development is ever-shifting, with significant events and revised thinking having a huge impact on the people that work in this field in recent times. There is an urgent need for a contextualised approach to this area of work, one that reflects a more organic development methodology and the complex realities around social structures, ecosystems and the global economic system.
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Allan Kaplan’s approach to community development starts from two reversals of mainstream development thinking: he believes the real outcome of development interventions lies as much – if not more – in transformations of consciousness as in material or policy change; and the practitioner-as-facilitator’s own development process is central to any intervention and is part of its outcome. Through a series of experiential and reflective encounters dealing with self, nature, social development phenomena and contemplative process, the course will attempt to generate an understanding of development practice that recognises the practitioner’s person as crucial. This work will help bring participants closer to themselves and to the development intervention as a path which respects the integrity of all involved in the process of social transformation.
Drawing on extensive experience gained through many years of process consultancy within the development sector – mainly in Africa, Europe and South America – as well as on the work of Goethe and Jung, Allan Kaplan presents a radically new approach to the understanding of organizations and communities and to the practice of social development. Challenging the tendency to reduce development to a technical operation that attempts to control, Kaplan’s approach embraces the full complexity of the process of social transformation. He describes the terrain of social change whilst simultaneously providing exercises through which practitioners can enrich their abilities to respond to the mix of chaos and order which characterize social development. Exploring this delicate balance, Kaplan inspires a sense of responsibility and possibility for the discipline, and reveals how development groups can intervene in social situations in a manner that is both humane and effective.
This course is part of a three week series Transformative Development. Courses in this series are:
• Current Challenges in Development and Globalisation – Ian Christie and Robert Chambers (January 31 – February 4)
• Complexity and Social Transformation – Allan Kaplan (February 7 – 11)
• Engaging Communities for Systemic Change – Bunker Roy and Aruna Roy (February 14 – 18)
If you take more than one week you will pay less for each consecutive week.
Any One week £750
Any Two weeks £1,450 (Save £50 over weekly course price)
Three weeks £1,900 (Save £350 over the weekly course price)
You can select you the week(s) you require at the point of booking.
All course fees include accommodation, food, field trips and all teaching sessions.
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