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Leadership Circles:
Managing
Conflict &
Change
Miguel Martin R. Vilchez
As part of the Leadership Circles
series under its Program for Leadership
Development, the Office of the Vice
President for the Loyola Schools held a
session on September 13, 2010 entitled
“Managing Conflict and Change.” Dr.
Antonio G. M. La Viña, Dean of the
Ateneo School of Government, served as
resource speaker.
La Viña, throughout his sharing of
insights and tips on managing conflict
and change, drew from his experiences
as undersecretary of the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources, as
well as his understanding of dealing with
the government and handling of public
disputes.
He began by discussing the nature
of conflict, remarking that conflict as
a driver of change may have different
outcomes. He also added that in
managing conflict, personalities and
ideas do matter and that clear processes
are critical.
“Learn from the past,
carry on the best, leave
behind what is not
important, what did not
work.”
He briefly discussed the four types
of conflict: data conflict, relationship
conflict, interest conflict, and value
conflict. He pointed out that the type
of conflict determines what kind of
solutions, whether technical or adaptive,
are required to answer it. He discussed
a list of characteristics of adaptive
solutions such as a clarification of values
in a real setting, bridging the gaps
between values and new situations, and
overcoming resistance. In the end, he
says that listening is the key.
He shared some of his experiences
with change management in the Ateneo
School of Government. He narrated
how a re-arrangement of the office
space leads to better transparency and
performance. He also shared how they
moved from property management to
ideas management.
La Viña mentioned that being too
slow, always wanting detailed solutions,
the use of toxic words, and being
indecisive were the barriers that could
hamper reaching a consensus. He added
that in principled negotiations, the four
basic points are: to separate people from
the problem, to focus on interest and not
on positions, to generate options before
deciding what to do, and that objective
standards is the basis of the negotiations.
In the end, he emphasized on the
importance of failure and how we can
learn and adapt from it. He reminded
us to “Learn from the past, carry on the
best, leave behind what is not important,
what did not work.”
at ang Bayan ng Bulawan
by Gary C. Devilles
Sa ika-28 taon ng Entablado
itinanghal ng grupo noong Agosto 2010
ng ang dulang-awit na Si Pilandok at
ang Bayan ng Bulawan na sa panulat
ni Christine Bellen at direksyon nina
Dr. Jerry Respeto at Jethro Tenorio.
Binigyang buhay ang nasabing dula ng
mga orihinal na komposisyon nina Dr.
Christine Muyco at Jema Pamintuan at
ng koreograpiya nina Edwin Maestro at
Joyce Villanueva.
Banayad at nakaaaliw ang daloy ng
dula dahil tulad ng anumang kuwentong
bayan, tunggalian ito ng isang
karaniwang mamamayan na si Pilandok
(ginampanan nina Victor Robinson iii
at Gio Gahol) laban sa makapangyarihan
at ganid na si Datu Usman (ginampanan
nina Jesus Ignacio at Mike Cuepo).
Mababatid at ihahayag ni Pilandok ang
pagnanakaw ni Datu Usman kasama
ang kanyang mga utusan at alalay gaya
ni Orochimaru (ginampanan nina
Jason Barcial at Mark Legaspi) upang
sa dakong huli maipagkaisa ni Pilandok
ang mga bayan ng Iraya at Ilawod.
Sa kapayakan ng daloy ng dula,
mababatid hindi lamang ang galing ng
pagsayaw at pag-awit ng mga piling
nagsinaganap kundi maging ang bisa ng
pagtatanghal ng isang kuwentong bayan
sa panahon ngayon ng makabagong
teknolohiya, ang paglipana ng mga
Inday jokes, ang popularidad ni Manny
Pacquiao, at maging ang pagsikat ng
jejemons. Ayon kina Tenorio at Respeto,
nagkakaroon ng saysay ang jejemons o
si Pacquiao kapag tinitingnan natin ito
sa siste ng katutubong kamalayan, gaya
ng kamalayan ng isang pilandok na
mapamaraan at tuso. Para kay Bellen,
maaaring makita rin sa kuwentong bayan
ang isang uri ng pulitikal na pakikibaka
Photographs by manila-photos.blogspot.com
na hindi nalalayo sa pakikibaka gamit
ang cellphone at ang internet ngayon.
Nagkaroon ng maraming imbitasyon
ang Entablado sa pagtatanghal ng dulang
Si Pilandok at ang Bayan ng Bulawan sa
Going beyond vital signs
The physician’s work begins and ends with examining and
treating a patient’s body when it is suffering from a disease.
This is a good enough notion of health care delivery to some
doctors and patients. However, for a new generation of
physicians and physicians-to-be, the practice of medicine not
only means getting to know a patient’s body, but getting to
know the patient’s context as well.
In a talk given on September 6, 2010 at the Leong Hall
auditorium as part of the Department of Sociology and
Anthropology’s 50 th anniversary “Sociology and Anthropology
Beyond the Academe” lecture series, Dr. Michael Tan discussed
how the social sciences and humanities can inform and enrich
the practice of medicine. Tan is the dean of the up College
of Social Sciences and Philosophy, coordinator of the Medical
Anthropology Unit of the up College of Medicine, and a
lecturer at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health
(asmph).
The field of social medicine has been
around since the 19 th century. Dr. Rudolf
Virchow, a German physician and
anthropologist, is credited as one of its
founders. Virchow, with whom national
hero Dr. Jose Rizal corresponded, often
focused on the fact that disease is never
Ilang eksena sa dulang-awit
by Joanna Ruiz
Dr. Michael Tan
purely biological, but often socially
derived.
In his talk, Tan enumerated how the
different social sciences and fields in
the humanities could affect the delivery
of health care in the Philippines today.
Anthropology can shine a light on our
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Foundation. Itinanghal din ang dula sa
Adamson University at Meralco Theatre
sa buwan ng Setyembre.
How the social sciences &
humanities can inform the
practice of medicine
concepts about self, body, and nature,
and show how the cognitive becomes
embodied. The area of health psychology
has evolved from the simplistic “change
knowledge and behaviour follows” to a
deeper understanding of the role of peers,
social cues, and personal experiences in
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Joanna Ruiz