ABSTRACT
The academic developers' experiences of using deliberative communication in different leading and teaching practices and their reflections with critical friends on their own practices and praxis, moral and epistemic assumptions have enabled to identify and describe the features of deliberative leadership practice, while also indicating the promise of deliberative leadership praxis as a public good in itself, and with potential to uphold and maintain values that promote sustainable leadership praxes. Deliberative communication is a means of doing leadership while simultaneously it may be used as a set of analytical tools for interrogating one’s leadership praxis. Deliberative leadership as everyone’s responsibility carries the collective obligation to move beyond its practice, to combining, dance floor and balcony, doing and reflecting, becoming both participant and observer in a community of praxis that is sustainable. Deliberative leadership praxis too needs imagination and creativity, perhaps not quite the “kindly light” of which Newman wrote.
