Super Session"Contempt" is a form of negative, ambivalent attraction. When it is long term, ongoing and unchecked, it can be dangerous-for it holds the the seeds of destruction, not just for individuals and intimate systems, but for cultures, countries and possibly our planet. In this workshop, we will engage in a verbal and experiential process of exploring this concept. We will discuss how it operates, its emotional and cognitive mechanisms, the gestures that it generates and the actions that it produces. We will take a look at how it exists in each of us, and practice how to work with it in others.
2. Sandra Janoff
Sandra Janoff is happy to share a simple theory, philosophy and methods for leading any task-focused meetings. You can learn to achieve more by doing less. The ten principles she will introduce apply to how we manage meetings whether they are large and small, in organizations or communities. They are also meaningful to how we manage ourselves as facilitators. Sandra can share how you can work on structure, which is controllable, rather than behavior, attitudes and motivation, which is not. Topics she can cover include ways to:
- Integrate group success with your own development
- Manage polarized issues in yourself and in groups
- Structure meetings for individual responsibility
- Manage your own anxiety about getting things done
- Keep groups from fragmenting over stereotypes and differences
- Shift from either/or to both/and thinking
This is also an opportunity to ask the question, “What Would You Do If?...” We can find out together what we discover on the burning questions stimulated by failure and success.
3. Diana Whitney
Appreciative Leadership Super Session
This Super Session is the “global premier” of Appreciative Leadership. Dr. Diana Whitney will introduce you to the key concepts and practices in her newly released book Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization. This highly interactive workshop is an opportunity to discover your strengths and explore how to apply them to bring out the best of people, teams and organizations. Join Diana to learn the five core strategies of Appreciative Leadership and how to use them to get positively powerful results.
4. Janet Fiero
AmericaSpeaks Super Session
Across the globe democracy is budding and/or being reinvigorated with new methods of strengthening the voice of citizens. With deep roots in organizational development Dr. Carolyn Lukensmeyer founded AmericaSpeaks with the express mission to engage citizens in decisions that impact their lives. Over 15 years our signature event—the 21st Century Town Meeting — has engaged over 154,000 people around the world in meaningful deliberations that impact public policy. This session will present the basic principles of the 21st Century Town Meeting with case examples from a global youth summit in South Korea and citizen deliberation on brain science in Brussels.
5. Peggy Holman
Order from Chaos:
Principles and Practices for Turning Upheaval into Opportunity
What does it take to see opportunities where others see problems? How do you bring people together to pursue possibilities when faced with upheaval? As our organizations, communities, and other social systems experience increased uncertainty, a framework for engaging with disruption and the unknown becomes key to meeting today’s challenges. This session draws from the natural science of emergence to make practical sense of the deeper patterns of whole system change processes, such as Open Space Technology, Future Search, The World Café, Appreciative Inquiry and others. It provides theory, principles, and hands-on practices for engaging with emergence.
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