Transformative Listening & Leadership with Kristin Leigh

The recording for this session is now available to Supporting and Sustaining Members: Access the full recording and transcript. In this 45-minute session, Kristin Leigh will introduce you to "transformative listening" — an approach she and her colleagues at Explora in Albuquerque have adopted to better support their museums' communities. Kristin and MAP Founder @Kyle Bowen will discuss what makes transformative listening different, why it's valuable to museums, and how session participants might take steps toward adopting this kind of listening at their institutions.  If you're interested in developing deeper connections to your museum's local communities, you'll want to RSVP and come to this session. How to participate in this sessionThis is a free and public event. If you sign up for a free membership, you can RSVP and get a reminder email one hour before the session begins. You don't have to be a member to tune in, though. Just come back here and join the session on the scheduled day/time.  About Kristin Kristin Leigh is the Co-Executive Director at Explora in Albuquerque, NM, where she has worked since 2001. Kristin holds an M. Ed. in Science Curriculum and Instruction from Arizona State University. Prior to entering the informal science community, she was a classroom teacher in Phoenix. After becoming interested in the informal science learning community, she moved to Albuquerque and joined the team to open the new Explora in its permanent location (2003). Since then, she has participated in several professional development opportunities, like the Informal Learning Certificate program from the Center for Informal Learning and Schools at the Exploratorium. She is active in the Association of Science-Technology Centers and served on the core planning committee for the 2013 conference in Albuquerque. Kristin sits on the Informal Learning Committee of the Board of the National Science Education Leadership Association and has worked on a number of National Science Foundation-funded projects, like Playful Invention and Exploration, Learning Places, Science Firsthand and Portal to the Public, on which she served as co-PI. Kristin is a Noyce Leadership Institute Fellow. What is the MAP & Tell Conference?At the end of each season, MAP's Community of Practice comes together for MAP & Tell — a series of virtual sessions that • give current members a chance to share what they've learned over the past five months in the community • give non-members a chance to see what's been happening in the MAP Community and take some lessons learned back to their work MAP & Tell sessions are free and open to the public.