Learning Together: Sharing Wisdom for the Future*: The Thinking Leadership Project

Elizabeth Graham, Osk Lowe, and Brady Lowe, St. Francis Xavier Gold Coast


"Society cannot nor will not survive without intelligent, imaginative leadership. Leadership training for students
can provide leaders who have both the intellectual and creative potential to lead" (Sisk 1993, p. 493)

This workshop is a collaborative endeavour by four shareholders from our school community: a teacher, a parent and two students who will outline and share an innovative curriculum initiative concerning "Thinking Leadership". This project is the first education project of The Edward de Bono Centre for Thinking Gold Coast Australia. Our students with "over one thousand middle school students and their teachers will engage in a Constructive Thinking and Leadership experience, to think ways out of our problems and design the future. Our school will be assigned a mentor from the business world who will assist in implementing beneficial projects. This will forge positive relationships between present and future leaders". (Media Release The Edward de Bono Centre for Thinking Gold Coast, June 2000).

Our team will focus on these features within the presentation: Project Plans, Our school Context, Main Focuses, Strategies, Resources. Together our team will share Our Wisdom and model Teamwork and Leadership with a St. Francis Xavier flavour.

*This title was the theme for a Catholic Education Curriculum Conference in 1999.

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