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Friends of the
Taos Institute Workshop Calendar
All questions regarding content, registration, and fees for a particular workshop should be directed to the contact person noted. The Taos Institute offers this listing opportunity as a service to our associates and friends to further the Taos Institute mission. The Taos Institute is not responsible for the content or management of these workshops except those specifically flagged as Taos Workshops (dark purple).
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:AI Theory and Practice |
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| Jul 22nd, 2008 (tue) -- Jul 25th, 2008 (fri) |
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM |
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Foundations and Practice Of Appreciative Inquiry: Leading Positive Organizational Innovation
Target Audience: All Location: Portland, OR, USA
Presenters: Bernard J. Mohr (207-874-0118 or
bjmohr@innovationpartners.com) and Sallie Lee
To register, please contact Robin at Executive Forum at TEL: 503.475.6503 or
robin@executiveforum.com
Or online at
www.executiveforum.com
Description:
This four day workshop is a practical, interactive learning session which introduces the practice and philosophy AI and teaches implementers how to initiate and sustain positive change in their organizations. Our hands-on, learn-by-doing course is designed for anyone seeking to obtain a solid grounding in the theory and applications of Appreciative Inquiry - managers, consultants, HR pros, organizational and community facilitators - anyone concerned with such things as improving work processes, strategy development and implementation, cross boundary relationships, employee engagement, new forms of leadership and organizational culture in corporate, governmental and not-for-profit organizations.
Over the course of 4 days, participants will have opportunities to practice the key activities in the AI Process, to examine how AI has been used to transform other organizations, and to develop strategies for introducing Appreciative Inquiry to their own organizations.
Participants will:
Be introduced to the theory and practice of AI by experiencing each phase of the AI “5D” process
Learn how to reframe problems and craft appreciative questions to increase effectiveness and bottom line results
Develop their ability to apply the AI framework to a variety of strategic and operational topics, including team effectiveness, process improvement, strategic planning, conflict resolution, reorganization, mergers, program evaluation, diversity, leadership development and change management.
Click here for more information.
Info: 888.617.9909 or
info@innovationpartners.com,
www.innovationpartners.com |
| Jul 28th, 2008 (mon) -- Jul 30th, 2008 (wed) |
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM |
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Advanced Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner Studio: Enhancing Your Capacity to Design and Facilitate Complex AI Initiatives
Target Audience: All Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Workshop Leaders: Bernard J. Mohr and Sallie Lee
To register, please contact Robin at Executive Forum at TEL: 503.475.6503 or
robin@executiveforum.com
or online at
www.executiveforum.com
Prerequisites:
Prior attendance at an AI Foundations workshop (or equivalent) and some experience with using AI as an approach to organizational change or transformation in corporate, governmental or not-for-profit organizations.
Description:
In this highly collaborative clinic we will develop an advanced learning community of practice which will help you to go deeper, faster, and farther with Appreciative Inquiry by identifying your personal strengths as an AI practitioner, and expanding your capacity to design and lead AI initiatives resulting in accelerated change with measurable results.
We will invite you to share with other knowledgeable and experienced colleagues, stories you want to tell and to hear about, innovations and unique applications you are excited about, ways to integrate AI into your life; dilemmas you've always wanted to explore, and other curiosities you have from your own practice.
Goals:
Participant interest will drive the agenda – past sessions have included dialogues around such significant questions as:
How can I do process redesign with AI?
What really has to happen in the early stages ie when we are scoping the project and budgeting for it?
How do we work pragmatically, tailoring interventions to the pragmatics and constraints of organisational life without loosing the integrity of what we need to do?
When do I use AI Summits, Positive Change Networks, AI Consortia, Whole System Dialogue, Innovation Teams, AI Learning Teams etc.
What happens after Dream?
How do we measure and sustain the change in Destiny?
What does it mean “to be AI”??
Click here for more information.
Info: 888.617.9909 or
info@innovationpartners.com,
www.innovationpartners.com |
| Aug 24th, 2008 (sun) -- Aug 29th, 2008 (fri) |
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Foundations of Appreciative Inquiry
Target Audience: Practitioner Location: Rhinebeck, New York
Presented by: Diana Whitney, Ph.D.
Co-sponsored by: Corporation for Positive Change (CPC)
Learn to use Appreciative Inquiry for organizational transformation, to improve business performance and to enhance morale, organization vitality and customer satisfaction. Hear how British Airways, Nutrimental, Lovelace Health Systems and the United Religions Initiative each involved thousands of people using Appreciative Inquiry. Develop your skills to lead key steps in the Appreciative Inquiry process: affirmative topic choice, appreciative interviews, envisioning the future, crafting provocative proposals and creating sustainable appreciative organization cultures. Join Workshop leader, Diana Whitney, at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, NY for a workshop that is bound to change the way you work for the better.
For further information please contact:
Omega Institute
Phone: 845.266.4444
Fax: 845.266.4828
Website: www.eomega.org |
| Sep 15th, 2008 (mon) -- Sep 18th, 2008 (thu) |
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The Appreciative Inquiry Summit
Target Audience: Practitioner Location: Boulder, Colorado
Presented by: Amanda Trosten-Bloom
Co-sponsored by: Corporation for Positive Change (CPC)
Learn to design and facilitate large-scale change initiatives using the principles and practices of Appreciative Inquiry as applied to large group interventions. Hear how companies like McDonald’s, John Deere, Hunter Douglas Window Fashions and the US Navy have used the AI Summit methodology for organizational culture change, strategic planning, leadership development and customer service. This is a highly practical, interactive workshop. Plan your own AI Summit process with the help of workshop leader Amanda Trosten-Boom in Boulder.
For further information please contact:
Corporation for Positive Change
email: office@positivechange.org
Tel: (303) 972-5155
website: www.positivechange.org |
| Sep 23rd, 2008 (tue) -- Sep 24th, 2008 (wed) |
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Social Construction, Relational Theory and Transformative Practice
Target Audience: All Location: Sarasota, Florida
Workshop Presenters: Sheila McNamee, Ph.D. and Harlene Anderson, Ph.D.
Sheila and Harlene invite you to join them for a pre-conference workshop. Bringing their breadth of experiences together, the workshop will introduce social construction and relational practices for those new to it and will help those familiar with it to deepen their understandings and practices. Additionally, focus will be on the practical application of constructionist ideas in organizations, therapy, education, and community development. We will focus on constructionist/relational understandings of language and meaning-making, polyvocality, transformative dialogue, and appreciative and future oriented perspectives. Participants will learn how social reality is constructed in language and the implications of this for our understandings, knowledge, and everyday practice. Participants with a background in social construction will have an opportunity to explore issues of special relevance to their projects and practices. Taos/Tilburg Ph.D. students are encouraged to attend, as are other interested students.
To register, go to the Taos Institute conference page at: www.taosinstituteconference.net. When you register for the conference you will also register for the pre-conference workshop. If you only want to attend the workshop, and not the conference, please contact Sheila McNamee.
For more information contact:
Sheila McNamee
Phone: 603.862.3040
Email: sheila.mcnamee@unh.edu
or
Harlene Anderson
Email: harleneanderson@earthlink.net |
| Sep 25th, 2008 (thu) -- Sep 28th, 2008 (sun) |
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Dialogues that Deliver: Generative Practices in Collaboration, Conflict, and Community
Location: Sarasota, Florida
A Conference
The Taos Institute presents an international conference designed for the fullest sharing of Dialogic Practices that change lives and the world. Join Taos Institute Founders and Board Members as we explore the latest thought, research and examples in Dialogic Practices. This conference will be of interest to all fields of study and disciplines of practice focused on positive social change through dialogue.
Special feature: A plenary panel discussion featuring the founders of the Taos Institute. Fifteen years ago, the founders met in Taos, NM for the first time to explore how social constructionist thoughts and theories impact their practices, teaching and research. This will be the first time in a long time that the founders will all be together again.
*Keynotes by Kenneth Gergen, John Shotter
*Workshops by Taos founders, board members and associates.
*Table Topic discussions
*"Conversation" Showcases
and much more.
For more information visit: www.taosinstituteconference.net
Call: 1-440-338-6733 or 1-888-999-TAOS
Email: info@taosinstitute.net |
| Oct 6th, 2008 (mon) -- Oct 9th, 2008 (thu) |
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Appreciative Leadership Development Program
Target Audience: All Location: Englewood, CO
Presented by: Amanda Trosten-Bloom
Sponsored by: Corporation for Positive Change
Discover and build upon your unique strengths, skills and talents as a leader – what we call your Leadership Positive Core. Develop your capacities to ask positive yet provocative questions, solicit input from colleagues and front line employees, bring out the best in people and organizations and design innovative structures for organizing and accomplishing work.
The Appreciative Leadership Development Program (ALDP) is an innovative strengths-based learning process. Organized around the demonstrated assumption that people’s greatest opportunities for growth are in their areas of strength, it is a fully affirmative development program. It includes appreciative inquiry-based 360 feedback, appreciative coaching, and opportunities for personal reflection, deep inquiry into your leadership history, and generative dialogue leading to clarity about your appreciative leadership legacy. You will be introduced to and develop the five essential appreciative leadership skills: inquiry into strengths, values and positive possibilities; inclusion of others in co-creating the future; illumination of the best of people and situations; inspiring hope for the future; and demonstrating relational integrity.
This workshop is for you and about you. It is a time to review who you are as a leader, the results you have achieved, and those you still hope to accomplish. It is an opportunity to renew your commitment to being a leader that makes a positive difference in the world.
This workshop is included in CPC’s Certificate Program:
Appreciative Inquiry and the Practice of Positive Change.
Visit www.positivechange.org for more details or call our office at (303) 972-5155. |
| Oct 27th, 2008 (mon) -- Oct 29th, 2008 (wed) |
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Advances in Appreciative Inquiry
Target Audience: Practitioner Location: Golden, Colorado
Presented by: Diana Whitney, Ph.D. & Amanda Trosten-Bloom
Co-sponsored by: Corporation for Positive Change (CPC)
The newest addition to the CPC workshop series, Advances in AI is a topic-driven forum for exploring new horizons and key questions that make a different in the successful design and delivery of AI. Combining presentations from national thought leaders with thoughtful reflection on individual participants' projects, Advances in AI deepens and expands your ability to design and lead AI initiatives resulting in accelerated change with substantiated results
For further information please contact:
Corporation for Positive Change
email: office@positivechange.org
Phone: 303.972.5155
website: www.positivechange.org |
| Nov 3rd, 2008 (mon) -- Nov 5th, 2008 (wed) |
8:45 AM - 5:00 PM |
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Leading Positive Change: An Appreciative Inquiry Workshop
Target Audience: All Location: 5333 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20015
At the Friendship Heights Metro
Workshop Leaders: Ada Jo Mann, Michael Feinson and Roz Kay
Ado Jo Mann: (202) 363-9292 or
adajo@innovationpartners.com
Workshop Intro:
The focus of this workshop will be on developing leadership and change capacities through Appreciative Inquiry.
Do you want to learn to maximize your unique skills and strengths to achieve extraordinary results? Would you like to learn about a participative and energizing way to spark change in your team in a way that positively impacts the bottom-line? Are you interested in developing your leadership abilities to bring out the best in others?
Description:
Why Appreciative Inquiry?
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a new and innovative approach to change that is proving its capacity to engage, inspire, and energize individuals and organizations toward positive results. AI helps organizations and individuals make the paradigm shift from solving problems to creating opportunities.
Unlike traditional change and leadership methodologies which focus on what is not working and why, AI engages groups in identifying successes, strengths and what their organization looks like at its best. It then builds on those assets to take advantage of new opportunities and deliver meaningful results.
More about the Workshop:
The focus of this workshop will be on developing leadership and change capacities through Appreciative Inquiry. Prior knowledge of AI is not required. Individuals with AI knowledge and who are seeking to ensure sustainability and expand their learning and leadership capabilities will also benefit from this program. An optional day will be offered to hear about a wide range of AI applications and to get support from facilitators and colleagues on ideas for making your current AI engagements even better.
How You Will Benefit:
Gain leadership skills to create trust, develop a clear vision, and engage your team and organization towards greater levels of performance
Learn the theory and practice of Appreciative Inquiry (AI), a strength-based approach to change that helps individuals and organizations identify what works and then build on those positive resources to create meaningful results
Increase your leadership abilities and your organization's capacity to manage change, improve processes, strengthen teams, and foster collaboration
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Info:
info@innovationpartners.com or
www.innovationpartners.com |
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Appreciative
Inquiry Certificate Programs
»»Corporation
for Positive Change AI Certificate Program - Appreciative Inquiry
and the Practice of Positive Change - A Program of Four
Workshops
A comprehensive developmental process for acquiring the knowledge and
skills needed to lead, design and facilitate positive change in organizations
and communities using Appreciative Inquiry. For application:
- Website: www.positivechange.org
For information:
- Phone: 303-972-5155
- Email: office@positivechange.org
»»AI
Certificate Program in Positive Business and Society Change, Weatherhead
School of Management
with David Cooperrider at Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH United States
April 2006
The AI Certificate Program in Positive Business and Society Change is
for people whose lives are dedicated to leading significant business,
society, and global change. The program draws on Case Western Reserve
University's outstanding faculty and combines its rich history of leadership
with world-class facilities, a dynamic learning environment, diverse interchange
of ideas, and intellectually expansive exploration into areas like these:
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Positive Psychology and the Interdisciplinary Study of Human Strengths
- Positive Change in Business and Society
The purpose of the Certificate is to explore the potential of AI at the
intersection of business and society -- where businesses have the opportunity
to be agents of world benefit by building thriving communities, creating
sustainable enterprises, and building cooperative partnerships with civil
society to promote the common good.
CONTACT: James Van Doren
Executive Education, Weatherhead School of Management
jrv5@case.edu
Phone (216) 368-6413
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