Sean Park
I am an educator, coach and scholar in the areas of creativity, systems thinking, design and leadership
I am passionate about transformative learning for personal and social change. I provide workshops, courses, and coaching services to undergraduates, graduates and professionals across disciplinary and industry boundaries.
My joy is found in co-creating learning environments and contexts that embrace complexity, ambiguity, difference and the contradictions of being human. I facilitate safe spaces for connection, diversity and courageous conversations. While being attentive to group process and climate, I help groups and teams move from being stuck in problems to creative possibility and action with the bigger picture in mind.
Mindfulness, expressive arts, design thinking, systems thinking and resource-focused coaching are vital elements in my toolbox. Instead of working from theories about how change should happen, I emphasize the experiences and expressions of all participants as source material for change.
Central to my practice is the art and science of reframing and creative action. I approach change as a process of moving from limited and impoverished framings of reality and problems to ones that are generative and resourceful. I am most interested in how then language, rules and metaphors that structure our communication can be worked with to create new and different ways of addressing pressing problems.
I have served as a faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts (IDEA) program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. While at MaRS Discovery District, I led the design and deliver of a fellowship in Systems Leadership to young emerging leaders. I am currently an instructor in the Bachelor of Health Sciences programme at McMaster University
parks5@mcmaster.ca
I am passionate about transformative learning for personal and social change. I provide workshops, courses, and coaching services to undergraduates, graduates and professionals across disciplinary and industry boundaries.
My joy is found in co-creating learning environments and contexts that embrace complexity, ambiguity, difference and the contradictions of being human. I facilitate safe spaces for connection, diversity and courageous conversations. While being attentive to group process and climate, I help groups and teams move from being stuck in problems to creative possibility and action with the bigger picture in mind.
Mindfulness, expressive arts, design thinking, systems thinking and resource-focused coaching are vital elements in my toolbox. Instead of working from theories about how change should happen, I emphasize the experiences and expressions of all participants as source material for change.
Central to my practice is the art and science of reframing and creative action. I approach change as a process of moving from limited and impoverished framings of reality and problems to ones that are generative and resourceful. I am most interested in how then language, rules and metaphors that structure our communication can be worked with to create new and different ways of addressing pressing problems.
I have served as a faculty member in the Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts (IDEA) program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. While at MaRS Discovery District, I led the design and deliver of a fellowship in Systems Leadership to young emerging leaders. I am currently an instructor in the Bachelor of Health Sciences programme at McMaster University
parks5@mcmaster.ca
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