Summary of Week 2

We started this week by stating that identity acts as a filter for the kind of leadership we practice. Identity is something that is given to us by organisations and other people and groups but is also something that we can shape and influence. We stated that identity is dynamic, that it moves as we practice, though identity work. Having spent time on identity in general, we then considered identity in relation to voluntary organisations and asked you to reflect on the distinctiveness (or not) of the voluntary sector.

We then introduced the idea of participative practice as practice that is democratic and relational. We described leadership in this context as offering collective direction to practice. Participative practice was described as making sense of the self and in terms of practice between people.

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