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50-Minute Sessions

Shared Interest (SI)

Autopilot Off: ​Unlearning Routine to Deepen Professional Intentionality (and Joy)

Thursday, May 29, 2025
9:30 AM – 10:20 AM PST
This session challenges participants to unlearn how they work in international education and imagine more sustainable, intentional approaches to those efforts, leaving places and spaces better than when they arrive and inspiring impactful change. This session aims to empower and inspire participants to make a positive change in their organizations and beyond.

Learning Objectives:

  • Articulate and question common international education practices that may benefit from values-centered inquisition, including conference and event planning, program execution, marketing, and other individual, organizational, and sector-wide operations.
  • Take inventory of common practices which may be misaligned with personal, professional, and/or organizational mission and values and propose alternative practices at various influence levels to enhance the positive impact of activities.
  • Advocate for and implement intentional, values-centered practices in work and within organizations to improve routine procedure and policies in new ways.