Center for Collaborative Leadership

The Center for Collaborative Leadership has been established to foster research and education which cultivates leadership appropriate to the social and psychological challenges of contemporary culture. The Center re-imagines leadership as the deepening of participation, the inspiring of political imagination, and the facilitation of creative conflict. Leaders skilled in the art of conflict facilitate the recognition and engagement of differences necessary for creative collaboration and cultural change. Collaborative leadership within a cultural context is constituted by principled actions that create new and unexpected meanings. The role of dialogue and conversation is critical in this collaborative construction of emancipatory meanings.

The Center's associates recognize that, both locally and globally, the time is ripe for actualizing a collaborative vision of leadership. The principles and practices of collaborative leadership may be applied to personal, cultural, administrative, political, as well as clinical and educational contexts. The Center's activities include symposia, workshops, consulting, and training as well as research projects and publications.

Further information about the Center's approach is available in Aftab Omer's article (pdf):
The Spacious Center: Leadership and the Creative Transformation of Culture