strategic alchemy
A dedicated team representing staff, faculty, students, administration and Trustees of Bastyr University has been meeting and working for almost two years to shape input from the whole university community, including neighbors and patients and colleagues, into a strategic plan that will powerfully pull us forward into realizing our mission of "transforming the health of the human community."
I have gotten to work primarily on the first of the 6 strategic initiatives, all six of which were officially approved by the Board earlier this month. Now our bigger work begins, and we'll be looking for support and participation.
The first initiative, beginning with its preamble, is:
A university is defined by the power and beauty and reach of the ideas and perspectives that it gathers together in the spirit of open-minded inquiry. Bastyr University is committed to the work of transforming the health of the human community, and the daunting complexity of that work calls for us to think and talk and work together with many other people from many disciplines who share our commitment.
Because of our capacity for honoring the whole and all of its parts, and our unshakable trust that the parts are already threaded together even when the connections are as yet invisible, we are uniquely suited for hosting a confluence of rich and diverse explorations that lead to wise practice and action.
In the best academic tradition, Bastyr will welcome the meeting, meshing, and even the clashing of ideas that expand our understanding, seed our own programs and initiatives, connect us to effective work all over the world, and help us to accomplish our mission to transform the health of the human family.
Strategic Initiative #1:
Convene essential generative conversations that inform the cultivation of practitioners and influence policy decisions that contribute to restoring the world's intrinsic health.
There are objectives and goals and things to be measured, too, which I can tell about another time if you'd like, and another five initiatives which all have to do with creating or adopting, and living up to, standards of excellence in all our own particulars of who we are and what we do.
Many thanks to Bill Toliver and his team at The Matale Line for their deep careful listening and skillful alchemy, cooking us down to the real essence of what is ours to contribute to a healthier future.
I have gotten to work primarily on the first of the 6 strategic initiatives, all six of which were officially approved by the Board earlier this month. Now our bigger work begins, and we'll be looking for support and participation.
The first initiative, beginning with its preamble, is:
A university is defined by the power and beauty and reach of the ideas and perspectives that it gathers together in the spirit of open-minded inquiry. Bastyr University is committed to the work of transforming the health of the human community, and the daunting complexity of that work calls for us to think and talk and work together with many other people from many disciplines who share our commitment.
Because of our capacity for honoring the whole and all of its parts, and our unshakable trust that the parts are already threaded together even when the connections are as yet invisible, we are uniquely suited for hosting a confluence of rich and diverse explorations that lead to wise practice and action.
In the best academic tradition, Bastyr will welcome the meeting, meshing, and even the clashing of ideas that expand our understanding, seed our own programs and initiatives, connect us to effective work all over the world, and help us to accomplish our mission to transform the health of the human family.
Strategic Initiative #1:
Convene essential generative conversations that inform the cultivation of practitioners and influence policy decisions that contribute to restoring the world's intrinsic health.
There are objectives and goals and things to be measured, too, which I can tell about another time if you'd like, and another five initiatives which all have to do with creating or adopting, and living up to, standards of excellence in all our own particulars of who we are and what we do.
Many thanks to Bill Toliver and his team at The Matale Line for their deep careful listening and skillful alchemy, cooking us down to the real essence of what is ours to contribute to a healthier future.
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