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\"Lambert_pic\"<\/a>Blog post by Jasmine Lambert<\/p>\n

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“practivist<\/a> <\/b>[prak-ti-vist] :a person who works in a professional manner, or regularly does an skill or activity that requires practice, to support causes they care about”<\/b><\/p>\n

An Ideal Professional<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

During a recent event (called \u201cDeans\u2019 seminar\u201d) at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), we (current and former masters degree students and a few professors) did a collaging activity in which we went through magazines and cut out images that resonated with our image of the ideal professional that we think we were trying to become<\/em><\/strong>. After we made personal collages, highlighting our own personal identities and aspirations, we put them all up on a white board, with each person drawing one connection between his or her college and an image on someone else\u2019s collage. We then went around the room and explained what the images in our colleges represented and why we connected the arrows where we did. Here are some of the collage images:\"Lambert_3\"<\/a>\"Lambert_2\"<\/a>\u00a0\"Lambert_1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The purpose of this exercise was to use collaging as a process of thinking and creating dialogue, not necessarily with the goal of having a finalized \u201cartistic\u201d product. \u00a0One participant in the Dean\u2019s Seminar reflected on the experience of having used art to initiate conversations in our session:<\/p>\n

\u201cThese conversations haven\u2019t necessarily changed my understanding in a fundamental way, but have perhaps brought them back up to the front of my mind and added nuance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I found my own experience resonated with the the idea that the activity did not necessarily create entirely new information;\u00a0I found myself saying things that of course, I already knew, but otherwise might not have not shared or had at the front of my mind.<\/p>\n

My Ideal Professional<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

My own collage ended up looking like:<\/p>\n

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J.Lambert’s own collage<\/p><\/div>\n

I now briefly explain the image:<\/p>\n