Ashok Patel's Blog

Journey of Peace: Selected Photos: The Assissi Heights Spirituality Center and the Journey of Peace planning committee hosted a wonderful event at the "Our Lady of Lourdes" chapel on Oct. 2, 2011. The celebration brought community together to hear about peace amongst various faiths, music, processional walk to a small gathering in Canticle Park for sampling food and generative dialogue. Al Lun, Savita Katarya, and Ashok Patel attended from our Diversity Council team.
From Transactional to Transcendental Leadership - Governance: Evolving from individual, visionary leadership to collective, adaptive, and distributed leadersthip that has the capacity to transcend conventional boundaries and build empowered and engaged citizens may require a shift in metaphor as well as style of dialogue. This path from transactional to transformative to transcendental leadership is nicely reviewed in this article and may be something to consider for our DC team.
Change Community Palmer: CHANGE COMMUNITY, CONFLICT, AND WAYS OF KNOWING WAYS TO DEEPEN OUR EDUCATIONAL AGENDA by Parker J. Palmer (SEP./OCT.) Twelve years ago, my own yearning for community in education led me out of the mainstream of higher education to a small place called Pendle Hill, a 55-year-old Quaker living/learning community near Philadelphia. It is a place where everyone–from teachers to cooks to administrators–receives the same base salary as a witness to community. At Pendle Hill, rigorous study of philosophy, nonviolent social change, and other subjects, goes right alongside washing the dishes each day, making decisions by consensus, and taking care of each other, as well as reaching out to the world.
Collaborative Learning Beckman: Evidence suggests that inexperienced clinical teachers are often controlling and noninteractive. Adult learning theory states that mature students prefer shared and self-directed learning and that skillful teachers favor facilitating discussions over transmitting knowledge. Similarly, education research shows that effective clinical teachers invest in relationships with learners, ask questions to diagnose learners, communicate complex information clearly, and provide meaningful feedback. On the basis of these principles, we propose a collaborative approach to clinical teaching that has 4 essential components: (1) establish a relationship with the learner, (2) diagnose the learner, (3) use teaching frameworks that engage learners, and (4) develop teaching scripts and a personal philosophy. This article includes suggestions for creating a positive learning climate, asking higher-order questions, providing meaningful feedback, and developing teaching scripts. We believe that practicing this approach, which emphasizes respectful teacher-learner relationships, improves the quality of every clinical teaching encounter.
How Successful Leaders Think?: We look for lessons in the actions of great leaders. We should instead be examining what goes on in their heads--particularly the way they creatively build on the tensions among conflicting ideas. By Roger Martin
CAS Leadership: Complexity leadership theory: An interactive perspective on leading in complex adaptive systems
Asian Pacific Islander Minnesota Profile
Rochester Facts 2011
June 2011 issue on Rochester 2020 vision: Rochester is a First-class destination city (within a destination state). Politically and economically, Rochester will be sought out by other officials to comment, influence, and direct public policy.
Diversity and Inclusivity Organizational Self-Assessment Tool
Diversity Council Organization Frame Work: Culture, vision, mission and the frame work on which DC is to be based.
Demographics and Workforce 2011 - olmext-1.pptx
Diversity Assessment Tool
Rochester International Festival poster: Promoting IT as an enabler for connecting people, diverse ideas/innovations, and common challenges. Al, Kim, and Ashok as co-presenters.
Census data Olmsted County jurisdictions
ROCHESTERFACTS 2011
Destination Rochester - A lot to do AND Doing a lot!: As I reflected on our board prep questions, I was amazed at how we already have a lot going for us (in our community) and how we have the potential to impact a lot beyond our city, via ambassadorships, exchanges, and now I.T. and mobile interactive communication technologies. We actually already have the key ingredients in place to have the means to any transformational 'Ends' we choose to set for ourselves - exciting stuff!!
Gung Ho by Ken Blanchard: 1. Spirit of the squirrel: Worthwhile work Team needs to understand and know how their work helps make the world a better place Everyone works toward a shared goal Values guide daily work by example and being lived, while goals can change are are future-oriented.
Multicultural lung health education: We had an excellent and honorable experience at our table at DC annual dinner (1-21-10) - Roger Peterson, chief of police, received a Champion of Diversity award; Junko Maruta-Ihara from Mayo language team/Peace lantern day event (8-6-10); Gregory Starvou, helped remind us of the role of the Arts in celebrating/uniting people e.g. Theater (skit), Music (Song: Stand by Me), and Dance (TBA); Abryelle Terrill won the MLK poem contest; Mark Adafin was inaugurated as new board member; Margo Herman (UMN), and Renee Lafflam. We should have taken a picture together, but since our core mission is about community education and healthier city, I add this picture from last year's HEC world TB/asthma day event to remind us of some of our owners we serve.