Faculty Club, Ultuna, Uppsala
The Society for Transformative Conversations invites you to a free training for facilitators, with a focus on interdisciplinary and exploratory conversations. Followed by a live opportunity to put that training into practice at one of the Society’s events.
You don’t need any prior experience in facilitation. We will meet our participants where you are in your practice and give you hands-on tools.
Some things we will cover:
October 14th 9:00-12:00 and October 18th 9:00-12:00, followed by a live event on October 21st (13:00-17:00), where the facilitators will have the opportunity to practice facilitating an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogue on land futures, supported by the Society.
Anyone working at SLU with an interest in supporting new conversations
No cost for attending.
Pernilla Glaser is an educator, facilitator, therapist, experience-designer and writer. Her expertise is pedagogy, leadership and collaborative practices for heterogeneous teams.
Keri Facer is Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol and is currently an August T Larsson visiting researcher at SLU for three years.
Keri has worked in interdisciplinary research settings for 25 years – across engineering, arts and social sciences – and has held a number of leadership roles in national interdisciplinary research programmes and universities. She is currently heading up a 14-country interdisciplinary programme on ‘Times of Just Transitions’ bringing together artists, social scientists, political scientists and humanities scholars. She was Zennström Professor in Climate Change Leadership at Uppsala University from 2018-2020.
The Society for Transformative Conversations is an utopian experiment. It aims to open up new conversations about the futures of land, food and human-more-than-human relationships through innovative convening practices. The society will be exploring, over three years, ways of opening conversations that enable dialogue across different communities, across different forms of knowledge, across different life experiences. We will be studying how we can have better, richer, more generative conversations that learn from collective and diverse sources of wisdom, challenge assumptions and open up new ways of thinking and knowing and being in the world. We will take conversation seriously as a foundational practice that shapes so much of our life and world and ask how we might learn to converse in ways that are adequate to the current time.
The Society is led and run by Professor Keri Facer, Pernilla Glaser and Åsa Berggren, professor of ecology at SLU. The society is funded by the August T Larsson Visiting Researcher Programme at SLU and SLU Future Food.
The core of the project is to improve our ability to truly listen to each other and take in the perspectives of others, on the road to a more sustainable society. Read more about the project here: Listen better to each other – as a pathway to sustainable societies
The first meeting organised by the Society took place at Ullbo, Ultuna, on November 15th 2023. The aim of the day was to discover new kinds of conversations about future food and how we use the landscape. Read more about that day here: You never know the consequences of one conversation.
For SLU employees travelling from other campuses, SLU Future Food (futurefood@slu.se) will reimburse travel expenses up to SEK 4500 per occasion.
For questions or more information, please contact Jasmine Zhang, jasmine.zhang@slu.se
Registration is now closed for this event.
SLU Future Food
www.slu.se/futurefood
futurefood@slu.se