The Experienced Pro: Seminar Schedule

Opening Session: The Experienced Pros as persons on their journeys... The career seen from the present perspective... Beginnings, things learned along the way, persons who mattered, joys and frustrations... When "it" is working wonderfully well, and when "it" isn't...The procession of students, colleagues, mentors, presences in the career...A look ahead... Resonant, insistent questions to pursue...
—The participants sharing and reflecting, with David Mallery as the session's leader.

Screening of Feature Film: The Age of Innocence (1993). We are showing this film as a treat, as perhaps the finest film ever made from a great novel. The work of two extraordinary American artists is alive in this film, that of Edith Wharton, who wrote this novel in 1920, and that of Martin Scorsese, whose labor of love and talent this film, which he directed and co-wrote, certainly is. In its setting of upper class New York of 1860 is played out a drama of extraordinary power, about passion, tradition, people's growing and evolving within society's structures or outside of them, about rules and values, rites and rituals and the power of the crowd to shape individual lives, and about persons' brave efforts to live lives they can flourish in and honor. All this resonates today with extraordinary, evocative power. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder, and the screenplay is by Martin Scorsese and Jay Cocks.

Break following the film.

The group then gathers to explore aspects of the film which may have particular interest or relevance. The focus will be on responses to and connections with the film or passages in it rather than literary or critical analysis of filmmaking techniques.

Dr. Robert Evans is a psychologist and the Director of The Human Relations Service in Wellesley, Mass. A former high school and preschool teacher, he consults to schools nation wide. His area of special interest is the implementation of school change and resistance to it. His book on this topic, The Human Side of School Change, was published by Jossey- Bass in 1996. Dr. Evans is a graduate of the Germantown Friends School and received his A.B. from Princeton University and his doctorate from Harvard University.

During the 30 minute solo, people can list things to do, ways to proceed, possibilities to try, not problems or road blocks or why-itwon't- work. The solo time is about making something really delightful come into shape as an actual plan to pursue.

After the solo 30 minutes, we come together briefly, and then move into partnerships of four people. Within each foursome, each person has a chance to share plans, visions, strategies with the other three, and to get some added ideas and possibilities and encouragement.

There is the potential for these foursomes to begin a long-range association, by mail and phone and perhaps in person to share news on the progress of their plans, the ongoing strategies and their effect.

Hepburn and Tracy made nine films together between 1942 and 1963. This one, among the most cherished now, is about a superb female athlete of aristocratic social and educational credentials, and her sports-career manager who seems to be out of Guys and Dolls country, with occasional visits to a sunny Godfather. The film's view of men and women on their own journeys, with the potential for genuine partnership-professional, personal, and romantic-is celebrated in Pat's and Mike's recurring motto in the film: "Five O, Five O!"