TOWARDS A POETRY OF REFLECTION AND REINVENTION: The Poetry Gallery Workshop

ABSTRACT

This presentation is an adaptation of The Poetry Gallery workshop to the conference theme. It was originally designed to sensitize students to the subtle, personal and emotionally charged dimensions of the undergraduate Organizational Behavior course. Through encounters with modern poetry, the Gallery evokes, clarifies and intensifies the metaphors through which students make sense of uncertainties in their own lives, deepen their appreciation of one another and creatively re-conceptualize course material. We believe that the conference themes of reflection and re-imagination can be enhanced by a good dose of poetry.