Marc Kessler
http://moose.uvm.edu/~mkessler/index.html of the University of
Vermont has sent the following announcement to us:
The Center for the Study of Groups and Social Systems
and
The Center for Reflective Community Practice
(MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning)
Present a workshop
Current Dynamics in American Society
by
OPUS:
http://www.opus.org.uk An Organization for Promoting Understanding of Society
Conveners
Olya Khaleelee, M.A. and Miranda Feuchtwang, B.Sc.
September 23 -24, 2000
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building 56 Room 154
Fee: $275
For more information and an appliation contact:
Tracy Wallach
96 Browne Street #1
Brookline, MA 02446
Phone: 617-566-0070
email:
tracywall@aol.com Or visit the Web Site:
http://csgss.org/OpusEvent.htm
OPUS is a non-political, voluntary organisation based in the UK. It was
set up by the late Sir Charles Goodeve, FRS, in 1975. He believed that if
we were better able to understand processes operating in society and
particularly issues of conflict, in industry and outside, then we would be
able to take more rational decisions; in the long run we would become more
effective as citizens in managing ourselves and society.
Aim of the Workshop
The aim of the workshop is to enable participants as individual citizens to
reflect on their own relatedness to society.
This two day workshop will provide opportunities for us to share our current
preoccupations in relation to the various societal roles we may have.
Collectively we will try to identify current processes in society that
impact on us as
citizens, and to formulate hypotheses about the underlying dynamics both
conscious
and unconscious, that maybe predominant at this time.
OPUS believes that a group of people meeting together to work in this way
allows the unconscious expression of some characteristics of the wider
society: the group, despite being non-random in membership, is thus a
microcosm of society. The experience of the workshop is itself therefore
relevant to an understanding society beyond individual and personal
preoccupations.