Dennis Minty

Cédric Jamet, M.A.

Lecturer, Applied Human Sciences

Status: Extended Term Appointment

Contact information

Email:

cedric.jamet@concordia.ca

Websites:

http://https://ici-ailleurs.design
http://https://medium.com/@jesuisuneville

CV:

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Biography

Bio

A graduate from the Applied Human Sciences Department in Concordia (M.A. Human Systems Interventions 2016), Cédric has spent the last 10 years supporting individuals, teams, organizations and communities to invent creative ways to think, do and live together in alignment with their collective values. In this spirit, he has designed and hosted dozens of inclusive strategic conversations and participatory processes with a wide diversity of partners, including public institutions, ONGs, foundations, businesses and activist groups.

His teaching and practicing interests include community development, sustainability, and social justice. On a personal level, he is profoundly engaged towards a vision of communities, organizations and social movements as spaces where one can learn and practice the magical and somewhat tricky art of becoming better humans.

Teaching activities

AHSC 415 - Sustainability in communities and organizations

AHSC 445 - Community Development

AHSC 439 - Internship in Human Relations

This course provides students with an opportunity to design, implement, and evaluate small group leadership in several settings, and to negotiate working relationships with site personnel. Students will be solely responsible for facilitating several task or learning groups in community, work, or educational settings. The sites will be selected according to students’ learning interests and in consultation with the course instructor. The course includes supervisory team meetings and internship seminar sessions.

The Internship in Human Relations Seminar is the capstone course for the Human Relations Specialization. It is a supervised educational experience within a professional setting related to the student’s area of interest. It is the opportunity for students to apply and more fully understand the significance of what they have learned throughout their degree program and to gain vital professional experience. In particular, the course is designed for learning the art and science of facilitation in systems intervention in an organizational and/or community context.

AHSC 698 - Masters project seminar

AHSC 434 - Capstone in Human Relations

AHSC 610 - Group process interventions

This course is oriented to the theory and practice of intervention in small groups. The course involves participation in a small group laboratory through which students’ experiences are integrated with conceptual frameworks, including theories of group development, leadership and ethical practices within group processes.

AHSC 672 - Consultation, planning and interventions

This course examines the “what” and the “how” of intervention on human systems: what is an intervention and how it is processed, from steps and phases of intervention programs to the art of engaging and communicating with client systems. It aims to build students’ capacities in designing, planning, programming and implementing interventions or programs. It builds on theories of organizational dynamics, human systems worldviews and learning and change frameworks. Special attention is given to considerations of power, conflict, and other system dynamics.

The course asks students to establish effective client-consultant relationships based on collaborative approaches to entry, diagnosis, planning, and implementation. Through observation and analysis of student-designed interventions, the course provides experience-based learning and feedback on working with human systems. Emphasis is on development of planning skills, design of proper approach and intervention programs with a background of process consulting and participative action research.