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A Participative Webinar with Tom O'Connor
Tom O'Connor
What does a wandering monk learn that helps transform prison systems? Tom O'Connor spent nine years as a Carmelite friar before creating a chaplaincy model that reduced recidivism. Now his Whole System Change work spans corrections departments across three continents.
Tom O'Connor brings an unusually varied background to dialogue practice: nine years as a wandering monk within the Carmelite order, degrees in law, philosophy, theology, and counselling, and leadership of 24 chaplains and over 2,000 volunteers who co-created a model of humanistic, spiritual, and religious prison chaplaincy within the Oregon Department of Corrections that reduced recidivism. His current work on Whole System Change draws on David Kantor's dialogue ideas central to Virginia's corrections transformation, Robert Kegan's adult development theory, and Ron Heifetz's adaptive change framework. O'Connor uses Implementation Science to integrate these approaches and help agencies sustain cultural change. His work has taken him across the US and to New Zealand, Canada, Australia, England, France, and his native Ireland. In this participative webinar, cohosts Nancy Dixon and Linda Ellinor interview O'Connor before participants reflect in small groups on how his experience connects to their own practice.
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Dialogue in prisons and justice settings
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