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Purkey’s P’s Proudly Present . . .

PeoplePlacesPolicies

ProcessesPrograms

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You’ve got to dance like there’s nobody watching

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Love like you’ll never get hurt

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Sing like there’s nobody listening

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Live like it’s heaven on earth!

William Purkey

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Welcome toWelcome toInvitational EducationInvitational Education

at at Lenoir Community Lenoir Community

CollegeCollege

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You Are Invited…

• To explore the theories that unlock human potential and human goodness

• To add your skill, knowledge, and energy to an effort to improve human relations

• To join with others in a celebration of helping relationships

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The Perceptual Tradition

• Human behavior is the product of the unique ways that individuals view the world

• Consciousness is at the center of personality

• People are not influenced by events as much as they are by their personal perception of those events

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Self-Concept Theory

•Who am I? How do I fit in the world? •How well do I treat others?•How well do others treat me?•How well do I treat myself?

You actions are a reflection of you as a person!

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• Human interaction that emphasizes respect and dignity in every encounter as the primary strategy for achieving educational goals

What Is Invitational What Is Invitational Education?Education?

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What Is the Mission What Is the Mission of Invitational Education?of Invitational Education?

• To enhance lifelong learning

• To promote positive change in organizations

• To cultivate the personal and professional growth and satisfaction of educators and professionals

• To enrich the lives of human beings personally and professionally.

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Four Elements of Invitational Theory

•Respect •Intentionality•Optimism •Trust

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Respect

• People are able, valuable, and responsible

• People should be treated with mutual respect and shared responsibility and power

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Intentionality

•An invitation is an intentional behavior designed to make our contact with others helpful.

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Optimism

• Belief that people possess untapped potential and goodness

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Trust

• Education should be a cooperative, collaborative activity in which we depend on each other

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Human potential can best be realized by . . . •Places, policies, programs, and processes that are specifically designed to invite development •People who are intentionally inviting with themselves and others, personally and professionally.

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The Five P’s of Invitational Education

•People •Places •Policies •Processes•Programs

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People•Trusting

•Inclusive

•Respectful

•Optimistic

•Accessible

•Courteous

•Intentional

•Caring

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Places•Functional

•Attractive

•Clean

•Efficient

•Aesthetic

•Personal

•Warm

•Inviting

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Policies

•Organization

•Attendance

•Admissions

•Grading

•Evaluations

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Processes

•Academic Orientation

•Interdisciplinary Teaming

•Networking

•Cooperative Procedures

•Collaborative Interactions

•Evaluative Opportunities

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Programs•Service Learning

•Community Outreach

•Instructional Excellence

•Wellness Focus

•Counseling/Tutoring

•Enrichment Opportunities

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Being Invitational Means . . .

• Being personally inviting with one’s self

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Being Invitational Means . . .

• Being personally inviting with others

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Being Invitational Means

• Being professionally inviting with one’s self

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Being Invitational Means . . .• Being

professionally inviting with others

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Two Types of Stances

Intentionally Disinviting

A negative and toxic attitude designed to demean, defeat, dishearten

Intentionally Inviting

Seeking consistently to enact the principles of IE, helping with respect

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Orange CardsOrange Cards

• “Cold Pricklies” • Attempts to hurt • Lack of feeling for

others

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Blue CardsBlue Cards

• To help, heal, nurture To help, heal, nurture • Kindness as a Kindness as a

deliberate actdeliberate act• Thinking about the Thinking about the

welfare of otherswelfare of others

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Invitational Education at

Lenoir Community College

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Lancers’ Isle

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Lancers’ Isle 

Just sit right back and you’ll hear the truth,

A-bout a faithful shipThat started at this college point

An invitational trip. 

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The mate was a mighty sailin’ man,The skipper brave and new.

Two hundred folks set sail that day For a half-hour tour, a half-hour tour.

 

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The weather had been getting rough,

The tiny college tossed.If not for the courage of the

fearless groupThe Lancers would be lost,

the Lancers would be lost.

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The ship took ground on the shore for this uncharted SACS report

With Dr. Scott --- and Parker, too, Larry Pate --- and his crew,

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Administra-tors, faculty-staff-and-students-too,

Here on Lan-cer’s Isle.

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So this is the purpose of our being here,

We’re here for a long, long time.We’ll make the very best of

things,It’s an uphill climb.

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The Pres-ident and all of usWill do our very best

To make our students w-el-comeIn our Eastern nest.

 

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New phones! New lights! So many cars,

All are luxuries.Like star wars and the galaxy,

It’s high tech as can be.

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So join us here each day my friend

You’re sure to get a smile.We want to be invitational

Here on Lancer’s Isle.

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Lancers’ Isle