Imaginal Articles

[Experts] state that the current model of education is broken. We at Master’s agree. But we’re not just here to talk about it, to hold TED Talks about it, to simply state the obvious. No. We’re here to change it.

Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 is an annual awards event honouring those who are positvely impacting Calgary, Alberta.

The 2020 Calgary Leadership Prayer Breakfast was held this October for the 52nd straight year and had over 1000 devices (including several groups) accessing the event online.

We sit and read the news and wonder where this whole thing is going. What will happen to my job? What will happen to our city? Will things ever get back to normal? Meantime some big changes are quietly being implemented…We are in the throes of a major geo-political and socio-economic shift that has been coming for a number of years.

It is clear that something special is happening at Master’s. Student engagement is high, teachers are actively engaged in learning and the culture of leadership development is thriving. Even as we were forced to transition to an online learning situation, we saw student after student step up to help with creating our new online community.

I have found that courage is linked to your centre and Big WHY. …whatever is at the centre will be your source of security, guidance, wisdom, and power. It’s what gives you your sense of worth, your direction, your ability to make decisions and your capacity to act.

At the heart of who we are, is our Big WHY, which answers the question of why does Master’s even exist and why do we do what we do? It is easy to describe what we do and how we do it as a leading academic institution in Alberta, but to understand “why” we must go to a deeper level of insight.

Brian Patterson is a model of an Imaginal Leader. In the midst of selling stock photos, he found a love, a passion, for capturing the human form through the medium of photography. He started with a small camera, and through hard work, creativity, and his knack for connecting with others, he has pursued his vision without limitation.