Imagine being able to participate in great conversations every day, in an environment of mutual trust and respect. Imagine each meeting you participate in fostering collective intelligence and wise action that contributes to improved services. Imagine you and others being able to discover and explore your organization’s most critical strategic questions through collaborative thinking and taking action on critical issues.
At the Conference you will learn how to:
• Shape and explore the questions at the heart of key challenges you face in your organization.
• Discover and convene the appropriate stakeholders who must be part of creating
innovative paths forward.
• Use practical conversational design principles to surface new ideas, new approaches and new thought.
• Develop practical action plans based on recent scientific understandings of living
systems and conversation as core process for
shaping positive futures.
Conference Key Note Team:
The Honourable Roy J. Romanow, Former Commissioner on the Future of Health Care in Canada, and Chair of the Institute of Wellbeing Advisory Board will be our key note speaker. He will open our conference conversation about planning for change by asking the right questions about what is important to us in order to build a vital future for our communities.
Juanita Brown, Ph.D., is the co-originator of the World Café, a leading edge approach to large scale dialogue and systemic change now being used in health care, government, education, business and NGO settings on six continents. She collaborates as a thinking partner with senior leaders across sectors to create innovative forums for strategic dialogue on critical business and societal issues. Juanita has served as a senior affiliate with the MIT Center for Organizational Learning, as a research affiliate with the Institute for the Future and as a Fellow of the World Business Academy. Her award winning book, The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations that Matter, co-authored with David Isaacs and the World Cafe Community, focuses on key design principles and leadership capacities needed to access collective intelligence around complex issues.
Dr. Phil Cass, Ph.D., is the CEO of Columbus Medical Association, and is transforming health care in Columbus, Ohio using highly effective architectures of engagement based on conversation as a core process. His model is known throughout the world as a leading best practice.
Cost: $175 (Early Bird, before Aug. 14, 2009), $225 (Aug. 15 - Sept. 17, 2009), $275 (at door)
Cost includes lunch and conference materials. No refunds after Aug. 14.
Questions: Contact Lauri Prest, Director, Training and Organizational Development, Providence Care
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