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'Reflective pauses' can bring new wisdom, strength.
In November 1999, Kathleen Allen and Kathryn Goddard assembled a handpicked group of innovative campus leaders to find out the latest effective practice in student affairs. They learned afterward that the "gifted practitioners" who brought their insights and experience to the discussion went away with newfound confidence.
Later gatherings at regional and national conferences of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) drew in others. At the March 2003 NASPA meeting in St. Louis, they led a workshop to show participants how to structure "reflective pauses" that elicit inner wisdom and strengthen those who take part.
Dr. Kathleen Allen is an associate professor in educational leadership at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul MN, formerly VP for student development at the College of St. Benedict MN.
Gifted practitioners
Dr. Kathryn Goddard is on the faculty of a master's degree program in student development at the University of California, Long Beach, and directs the university's center for collaboration in education.
Innovators in student affairs may be so busy creating and doing that they don't have time to write about it, so Allen and Goddard suspected practice might be ahead of written theory. Hoping to capture information about emerging practice, they gathered people with a reputation for doing something different.
"We wanted to invite people into a reflective pause in their lives," Allen told WIHE. Starting questions direct the conversation beyond the day-to-day level:
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