News & Events

The Center for Creative Change promotes leadership in positive, sustainable change wherever you are — in a community, business or nonprofit organization. The many programs and events sponsored by the Center are united in a commitment to creating a better world for everyone. News and events featured here focus on activities of faculty, students, alumni and friends of the Center.

Global Issues & Perspectives

This free lecture/discussion series sponsored by the Center for Creative Change (C3) addresses the question: What do we need to know to become effective global citizens? The series is an enriching opportunity to hear, learn from and be inspired by individuals — many of whom are from other cultures and countries — who are invited to Antioch to share their values and vision. Free and open to the public.

To view the schedule of events, click here.

Stimulating Creative Change

In this lecture prior to the Center for Creative Change Open House, Center faculty member Sadruddin Boga presented his paper, "Stimulating Creative Change," originally presented at the University of Vienna. The paper is available for PDF download on Sadru's webpage.

The challenge of stimulating creative change raises critical questions about the complex anatomy of both creativity and change at different levels of consciousness. Most of our thinking is limited to viewing our world as fragments linked together in causal relationships of varying complexity — ranging from linear to holistic. Mired in a linear world view, most of our creative interventions today utilize only a thin slice of our full potential, resulting mostly in incremental changes to the status quo and deflecting us from the engagement of our inherent capacity to experience insights at deeper levels of consciousness.

Boga, core faculty in the Center, explored possibilities of harnessing our full creative potential through the synthesis of self-organization and self-transcendence. Such a framework enables graduate students at the Center for Creative Change to bring about social change to secure the future of humanity.

Women Hold Up Half the Sky

Barbara Spraker, M.B.A., Center for Creative Change core faculty, presented a paper, "Women Hold up Half the Sky," at the 2008 Global Leadership Conference in Shanghai, China, June 5 to 7. The conference is hosted by the University of San Diego, the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and the Center for Creative Leadership.

While in Shanghai, Barbara convened two Conversation Circles, small groups of women who gathered to discuss "What is the Role of Women in Global Leadership?"

Celebrating Indigenous Empowerment

Shana Hormann, M.S.W., Ph.D., Center for Creative Change core faculty, Tina Ngaroimata Fraser, and Gail Cheney presented "Celebrating Indigenous Empowerment; New Directions in Graduate Research and Scholarship" at the Seventh Annual Symposium of Native Scholarship at the University of Washington as part of Graduate & Professional Education Week, April, 2008.

To view the presentation, click here.

CCC Faculty Member and Alumni Lead Workshop in Japan

Reflective practice, collaborative social change and rural community development were the focus of an international workshop at the Asian Rural Institute (ARI) that took Antioch Seattle core faculty member Britt Yamamoto and three alumni from the Center for Creative Change (CCC) to Nasushiobara in northern Japan in February.

To read about their trip, click here.

Antioch Seattle Offers New Master's Degree Programs With Native Focus at Muckleshoot Tribal College

New First Peoples' master's degree programs in management, strategic communication, environment and community, organizational psychology and whole systems design will be offered at the Muckleshoot Tribal College in Auburn starting in October 2008. The Center for Creative Change will provide the programs, which focus on issues relevant to Native people and are designed for students who plan to work in tribal communities. Shana Hormann, M.S.W., Ph.D., is the Program Development Coordinator of the First Peoples' Creative Change program, Associate Dean and Dean of Students, and a core faculty member of the Center.

To learn more about the program, click here.