Dear Friends and Colleagues,
My name is Marshall Ganz and I teach at the Harvard Kennedy School. I’m writing to tell you about the online course I will be teaching starting in early September. It is called Public Narrative: Leadership, Storytelling, and Action (https://rb.gy/g36kbo) and is offered through HKS Executive Education.
The course begins on September 3rd and runs through December 20th, and is now accepting applications. Over a 15-week period, participants will learn to strengthen their capacity to lead change.
Public narrative is a leadership practice. To lead is to accept responsibility for enabling others to achieve shared purpose in the face of uncertainty. This year and last, with its series of global and local crises, amply demonstrated the need for such leadership at a large scale.
Through narrative, we can learn to access the moral – or emotional - resources to respond to the challenges of an uncertain world – as individuals, as communities and as nations. Responding to urgent challenges mindfully – with agency - requires courage rooted in our ability to draw on hope over fear; empathy over alienation; and self-worth over self-doubt.
Public narrative is also the art of translating values into the emotional resources for action. It is a discursive process through which individuals, communities, and nations learn to make choices, construct identity, and inspire action. Because it engages the “head” and the “heart,” narrative can instruct and inspire - teaching us not only why we should act, but moving us to act.
Curriculum:
The Public Narrative course will create an interactive, supportive learning community consisting of live lectures, live small group sections, one-on-one coaching, readings, discussion and skills practice. This course builds on the Public Narrative classes I teach at the Kennedy School as well as workshops led by myself and many others.
We are very enthusiastic about enabling more people to learn this powerful leadership practice.
Will you join us?
Applications are open until July 25th, 2024. To apply, or for more information on program dates, tuition, and curriculum, please visit the Public Narrative program website (https://rb.gy/g36kbo).
Please also forward this email to your colleagues and friends who may be interested.
If you have any questions, please contact the Program Director, James Brockman at [email protected].
Sincerely,
Marshall Ganz
Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
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