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Campus
to Host National Conference on Spirituality
The University will host a national conference, "Going Public with Spirituality in Work and Higher Education," June 4-6. The conference will explore the relationship of spirituality to learning and work, with a special focus on public organizations, and will touch on religion, science, law, the arts and other areas of inquiry. Chancellor David K. Scott, conference host, says he believes "a powerful movement" is underway to transform education, the workplace and organizations through "integrative approaches that overcome fragmentation, specialization, and isolation in life and learning. "The movement represents a search for greater meaning, wholeness and connection," says Scott. "The conference, in conjunction with many others in academe, business and industry," he says, "will set the stage for education in an 'integrative age' which will prepare citizens for a new millennium in which spirituality will be a natural ally rather than an energy in the education of engaged citizens for an enlightened democracy." The conference will feature several internationally prominent speakers. David Whyte, poet, corporate consultant, and author of "The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America," along with Margaret Wheatley, author of the best-selling book "Leadership and the New Science," and "A Simpler Way," will open the conference on the evening of June 4. Danah Zohar, physicist and author of the new book "SQ: Connecting with Our Spiritual Intelligence," and "Rewiring the Corporate Brain," will speak Monday morning. Peter Senge, author of "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Science of the Learning Organization," will close the conference. Other featured speakers include Nadine Stossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Lama Surya Das, author of "Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch." There will be more than 50 concurrent sessions during the conference, which is co-sponsored by the Isenberg School of Management and the Education as Transformation Project at Wellesley College. For information, call 7-3355 or visit the conference Web site: |
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