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What is Power? What are the powers that can't be taken from me? How am I using my power? Power Literacy is an exploration of how we experience and understand different kinds of power. Are we innately wise, compassionate and courageous? How can we more effectively access our inherent powers? How can we more skillfully interact within the social and environmental systems that shape our experience?
Looking through a Power Lens - a two-day seminar. Day one we explore our experience of personal and cultural power dynamics. Day two we reflect upon our experience of institutional and environmental power dynamics. Click here for descriptions of seminars on Reclaiming Power, Intercultural Understanding and Perspective Based Learning.
Our method is one of inquiry, reflection and expression. We will be asking questions, writing, listening, and envisioning what we know and what we imagine to be true about power.
Depending on the interests of the group, this process may be applied to personal growth, community building, social activism, intercultural understanding, and/or framing an academic program.
Power Lens: a Tool for Transformative Teaching In this course, teachers will be invited to renew their passion for teaching by exploring their unique challenges, visions, and resources using the power lens. Beginning with an expanded definition of power, one that goes beyond control, this lens inspires curiosity and creativity as teachers tackle their difficulties, develop action plans, and connect with their most deeply held convictions and desires as educators.
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Lynn Fischer is an award winning playwright and educator. She has been teaching writing, and nonviolent communication in the NYC public schools for 25 years. In 1998 she developed the power lens program and has presented it in universities, throughout the US and South Africa. 