Thinking About Thinking - Dogma, What are we to do?

(This is a hands-on lab with limited capacity)

The term metacognition literally means 'above cognition', and is used to indicate cognition about cognition, or more informally, thinking about thinking.

In this session, the thinking about thinking we'd like to do is about dogma, which can be defined as a fixed belief or set of beliefs that people are expected to accept without any doubts.

We see this in almost every organization we deal with. This can be stated as the "status quo", or the existing state of affairs, and we've often heard it is as "we do it this way because this is the way we do it."

This is an exploratory and interactive session where you can participate by contributing your ideas or asking questions for us to explore as a group. We will facilitate the session using a few exercises where we gather our ideas and thoughts and discuss and analyze them both in small groups and with the whole group.

We'll explore situations where each of us has experienced dogma, and hopefully find some useful suggestions or experiments to try dealing with Dogma.

Prerequisites

Bring your examples of where you have experienced dogma in your organization.