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North Texas Community College Consortium
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Formation as a Basis for
Revitalized Teaching and Leadership
October 30-31, 2003
Tanglewood Conference Center
Lake Texoma ABOUT OUR RETREAT |
| The Center for Formation in the Community College, in collaboration
with the North Texas Community College Consortium, invites you to
explore Formation in a retreat for educators. Formation is the term
used in the writings of Parker J. Palmer for “the process of
creating a quiet, focused, and disciplined space in which the noise
within us and around us can subside and the voice of the inner teacher
may be heard—space in which the external and internal powers
of deformation are diminished and the grace and truth that are ours
may regain their original form.”
The retreat will be facilitated by Ann Faulkner and Butch Owens.
Ann is Co-Director of the Center for Formation in the Community
College (CFCC). She retired from a teaching career in Developmental
Reading at Brookhaven College (including serving as Chairperson
of the Dallas Community College District Faculty Association—twice!)
to lead formation retreats for educators and to help with the development
of the Dallas-based CFCC. She currently combines formation work
with part-time retirement and a growing appreciation for life outside
the city.
Butch is a Speech/Communications faculty member at Navarro College
in Corsicana. He’s been conducting seminars, retreats, and
workshops for twenty years; for the last five years this work has
been concentrated in formation-related presentations. He’s
a father, a camper/hiker, and a major source of fun.
The agenda will include time for solitude as well as work in small
and large groups. Because formation activities focus on nurturing
identity and integrity, they are always voluntary. The elements
used to evoke the inner teacher may include poems, stories both
personal and traditional, and music.
We begin Thursday, October 30 at 1:00; we conclude Friday, October
31 at 3:00.
We invite you to join us at Tanglewood October 30-31 for a rewarding
and renewing personal and professional experience.
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October 15, 2003
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