I am reading through the volume of papers from the May 2023 festschrift honoring the life and work of Dr. Wolfensberger, which is now available for purchase from Valor Press. Chapter six on the Pennsylvania… Read More »The Training Institute’s Pennsylvania Evaluation Project – Joe Osburn
Yesterday I attended the final session of a six month ‘leadership development series.’ The participants in this training series included human service workers and family members of people with impairments. Over the six months, they… Read More »SRV and leadership development
I am pleased to announce that we are going to run an SRV Journal ‘online conference’ starting in September 2013. The event will be entirely online and will be based on submitted papers (e.g., there… Read More »Announcing the 1st annual SRV Journal online conference
One of the things I learned from Wolf Wolfensberger was the power of writing in relation to leadership development, social and societal change, and human service broadly. Even a quick Internet search finds great emphasis… Read More »Writing in human services
“… a big thread that runs through Dr. Wolfensberger’s work is his belief in the power of ideas …” “One big thrust of Dr. Wolfensberger’s work was the identification of promising people (especially young ones),… Read More »The power of ideas and a leadership development mindset