Methods for Strategic Collaboration

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Comment by juanita brown on March 22, 2013 at 12:59pm

Hi Everyone,

I wanted you all to know about the Staging Change Institute which David Isaacs and I are helping to co-host at the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee April 25-28. The Institute will be weaving together the power of story-sharing, collaborative performance and strategic conversation for collaborative change. Attached is the invitation as well as a narrative overview We'd love you to join us!

Staging Change Invite.pdf Staging Change-OVERVIEW.doc

Comment by Christine Whitney Sanchez on March 4, 2013 at 11:21am

Thanks for the heads up, Ben. Looks like it just needed the backslash?

Would love for you to join. Is the stretch time or resources or both?

Comment by Ben Roberts on March 4, 2013 at 6:40am

There's a syntax error in your eventbrite link, Christine. Try this:

http://strategiccollaboration.eventbrite.com/

Would love to join you, but it would be a big stretch!

Comment by Christine Whitney Sanchez on March 4, 2013 at 6:21am

Dear World Cafe Friends,

I cordially invite you (or someone you know) to the 10th Anniversary Methods for Strategic Collaboration Foundations Training from April 29-May 3 at Gold Canyon Golf Resort in the stunning Superstition Mountains outside Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

For details and registration, please go to http://strategiccollaboration.eventbrite.com.

This interactive learning experience will help you increase your ROC - Return on Collaboration. You will develop foundational skills to blend and scale large group methods used around the world to engage groups of 2 to 10,000 in breakthrough thinking, decision-making and collaborative action.

Workshop Objectives

Through experiential learning, gain a working knowledge of the philosophy, principles and practices of Appreciative Inquiry, World Café, Open Space Technology and Polarity Mapping & Mobius Magic.

• Practice Radical Appreciation and Disruptive Inquiry as part of the Discovery Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.

• Engage in a World Café to create Provocative Possibilities as part of the Dream Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.

• Participate in Elegant Design through an Open Space Technology meeting as part of Design Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.

• Practice Polarity Mapping & Mobius Magic as part of the Destiny Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.

• Apply the formula for Return on Collaboration as part of the Perpetual Evolution in the Destiny Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.

One of the natural outcomes of this workshop has always been a number of lovely strategic collaborations that arise among the participants.

Strategic collaboration - Working Together for a Higher Purpose.

Thanks in advance for sharing this opportunity with your friends and colleagues via Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, emails or word of mouth.
Warm wishes from a fragrant spring afternoon in Phoenix,

Christine

Christine Whitney Sanchez, Partner
Innovation Partners International
Phoenix, AZ, USA +1.480.759.0262
www.innovationpartners.com

Comment by Christine Whitney Sanchez on October 19, 2012 at 12:14pm

Hello Everyone,

I would appreciate your comments! I'm on a panel this Sunday at the Organization Development Network Conference, with Billie Alban, Barbara Bunker, Harold Shinsato and Jacquie Peter. The focus of the panel is The Next Generation: Large Group Method Listservs as "Communities of Practice".

Responses to any or all of the questions below would be much appreciated and I will pass them along to the conference participants.

1. What is your favorite thing about this virtual World Cafe Community space?
2. What have been the upsides and downsides of the Ning platorm?
3. Describe the difference between your experience as a member of the World Cafe Community since our virtual connection moved from a listserv to a Ning.
   
4. What are you learning as a member of this Ning community?

Warm wishes from a warm fall afternoon,

Christine

Comment by Luis Carlos Jacobsen on April 8, 2012 at 5:09pm

Grrreat, thanks!

Comment by Luis Fernando Gómez G. on April 7, 2012 at 8:52am

Dear Christine:

I would like to know about "The Moebius Strip" as a model to inspire innovation in business.

Luis Fernando

Comment by Mark Hurych on April 6, 2012 at 4:24pm

Hmm. This area of innovation is very interesting to me. I don't think I'll make it to the workshop, but I am very interested in this particular genre of innovation. I hope to follow along and learn...

Thanks Christine,

Mark

Comment by Christine Whitney Sanchez on March 26, 2012 at 9:59am

Hi All,

I've posted an new event in the calendar. Please feel free to forward or post to anyone you think might be interested.

Cheri Torres and I will be offering Building Strategic Capacity in the Age of Innovation on June 18-20, 2012 in Sioux Falls, SD, USA.

A workshop hosted by Sanford Health

All sectors of our society—healthcare, education, business, and government—are facing enormous challenges today - calling for the adoption, implementation and sustainability of tomorrow’s philosophy and infrastructure. The Information Age and continuous improvement provided us with philosophies and tools for working with data and standardizing processes; it created an economy that is based on the manipulation of information. This Age is morphing and expanding into the Innovation Age where the norm is continuous change. We are being called to create new frames of mind and approaches that lead to human transformation, collaboration, and innovation as a way of working.

Join Innovation Partners International in June

Develop your ability to respond positively and effectively to continuous change and to build your capacity to engage your members in innovation. You will expand your understanding and ability to:

• Engage members of the organization in collaborative innovation in response to continuous change and challenge.
• Reframe problems so that efforts result in rapid and innovative solution-finding.
• Facilitate small and large groups in strategic planning, systems change, and innovation.

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Learn to use these methods and tools to inspire innovation:

• i² Inspired Innovation
• The Mobius Spiral
• Open Space Technology
• World Café
• Polarity Mapping

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Your Presenters

Christine Whitney Sanchez, M.C.

Cheri Torres, Ph.D.

For more information please contact Charlotte Denny-Henley at 605-352-4306 or [email protected]

Warm wishes from fragrant Phoenix,

Christine

Comment by Cheryl Lyon on March 26, 2012 at 6:39am

Luis, I'd be happy to connect on Skype. I'm in the Eastern Time Zone in Canada. Can you figure out a good time to call? My Skype name is cheryl.lyon

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