Hi friends:
For the past number of years I have been hosting some incredible spaces with my
colleagues Tim Merry, Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Caitlin Frost. We have run Open
Space events for 600+ people at the Kellogg Food and Society Conference, worked
with health care coalitions in US Rust Belt cities, designed training and
learning events for folks working in anti-violence and restorative justice in
the South Suburbs of Chicago. Tim has been working with folks in the Finance
Lab in the UK, looking at ways of transforming the British finance system and
he has been pioneering new forms of community engagement for large public
projects in Nova Scotia . I’ve been working with indigenous communities,
churches, environmental organizations and real estate developers (!), Tuesday
has led a national homelessness initiative and is working with new ways of
thinking about power and privilege. Caitlin has been working with financial
institutions and executives using inquiry based coaching…
We have learned a lot and we have a common inquiry around the Art of Hosting,
an approach to participatory leadership that is well known in the Open Space
community.
This year we have been offering a “Beyond the Basics” retreat; three days
diving into using participatory leadership approaches beyond meetings into
systemic change, social innovation and sustained capacity building in
organizations seeking to deal well with complexity. We have structured our
inquiry around “breadth, depth, power and friendship” as four strategic pillars
to support this change.
On September 21-24 we are hosting our next North American retreat on Bowen
Island near Vancouver BC. Short notice, but we still have some spaces left and
would love for you to join us. You can learn more about our offering at
http://www.aohbtb.com where you will find videos of some of our teaching
sessions.
And you can join us by registering here:
http://www.aohbtb.com/british-columbia.html
Hope to see you there!
Chris
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