Joan Dempsey, Director, Community Branch
Joan Dempsey
started her tenure with Global Learning Partners as the Programs
Manager in charge of contracts. In October 2011 she became the
first Director of a new initiative at GLP, the Community of
Dialogue Educators. Over the next several years Joan will create
this new branch of our company, a branch designed to support
Dialogue Educators around the world. We will:
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enhance our educational
offerings to those of you who are interested in expanding your
learning about Dialogue Education;
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increase teaching
opportunities for certified Dialogue Education teachers;
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initiate new products and
services that can help you in your work with Dialogue
Education;
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bring back (by popular
demand) the Dialogue Education Institute (planned for late
2013);
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formalize a new Dialogue
Education Studies program for certification in Dialogue
Education;
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and build a supportive
online learning community of Dialogue Educators from around
the world.
When Joan was first introduced
to the principles and practices of Dialogue Education in GLP’s
foundation course, Learning
to Listen, Learning to Teach, she was immediately hooked. As
someone who has worked for close to thirty years in the non-profit
sector, Joan has conducted countless seminars and workshops and
had always been looking for a learning method that would turn
ordinary participants into engaged and extraordinary learners;
Dialogue Education does just that! Joan has studied adult learning
theory and applied the principles and practices of Dialogue
Education while earning both her MFA and post-graduate teaching
certificate in creative writing at Antioch University Los Angeles.
Joan holds a second master’s
degree in management from Lesley University and a BA in
philosophy, with a concentration in the Program for the Study of
Faith, Peace, and Justice, from Boston College. For the past
eleven years she has worked in various capacities in the field of
animal protection and before that was active in the anti-nuclear
peace movement. She lives in Maine with her partner of 13 years
and is at work on her second novel.
Call Joan today at 207.926.6183 to learn how GLP can help you transform your
teaching! We look forward to partnering with you.
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