Dr. Douglas Reid presents Appreciative Inquiry to the group. This introduction to the approach was followed by a practice session.
Join Design with Dialogue from 6-9 pm on the second Wednesday of every month at OCAD’s sLab. We are a community of practice who learn together how to lead conversations for meaningful action through participatory design, strategic dialogues and the co-creation of emerging facilitation methods.
August’s session will be hosted by Kaleem Khan and Peter Jones based on the design-friendly practices of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and World Café. Due to interest from last month’s participants, we will move forward with our group’s scenarios (for a near-future Toronto) as triggered by themes from our experiences of recent G20 events.
To address the concern for “What should we do now?”, we’ll use AI to create a positive framework for working together and then gather in a World Café to generate new possibilities for action.
Improv play and drawing are rumored for this session. For newcomers to visual thinking, we introduce approaches to structured and informal sketching to enhance the dialogue with a graphic representation of our conversation.
Please join us for another lively, engaging and educational session and forward this invitation along to anyone you know who might be interested in attending.
How to apply game thinking to your business challenges:
www.gogamestorm.com
Dr. Doug Reid’s presentation on the facilitation method Appreciative Inquiry:
Thanks to DwD regular James Caldwell for posting a review of our June DwD session on his blog.
James discusses our learning of Appreciative Inquiry…
and the case study we performed on OCAD University’s rebranding exercise.
The May Design with Dialogue featured The Presence Workshop was hosted by Dexter Ico.
The Presence Workshop is about play and public speaking. It’s experiential, intensive, and spontaneous; having fun with the serious. It’s about sensing your self and censoring your self-doubt, because the knowledge you communicate to others is also always felt. People listen to presence, let’s practice speaking from it.
Even my mom is reading about “Design Thinking” in the newspaper, which means it’s gone mainstream. But aside from being a term that empowers designers to act in the business realm and vice versa….what does it REALLY mean? Who is doing an incredible job of defining it? Who is really doing it? Who can explain it in layman’s terms without using the term “design”?
Roger Martin‘s recent presentation on the subject:
Here’s Humantific‘s perspective:
A six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future on Harvard Business Review.
Waterlution is planning the Canadian Water Innovation Lab 2010 for October 18-24. They are seeking both participants age 18-35 and facilitators of all ages.
The event is billed as “a once-in-a-lifetime learning event that will turn…into concrete actions to protect our most precious natural resource: water.
September DwD 09.08.10 | Large Group Decision Making
September’s session on large group decision making will be hosted by JasonDiceman, Senior Public Consultation Coordinator for the City of Toronto and author of the Dotmocracy Handbook.
Dotmocracy is a transparent, equal opportunity, and participatory large group decision-making tool. It is a simple method for recognizing points of agreement among a large number of people. Participants write down ideas on specially designed paper forms called Dotmocracy sheets and use pens to fill in one dot per sheet, recording their levels of agreement. The result is a graph-like visual representation of the group’s collective opinion. Note, this is not sticky dot voting like you may be familiar with.
Dotmocracy has been proven to:
We will learn the details of facilitating this technique and apply the tool in a real life scenario, discuss approaches to various challenges and hear stories from Jason’s experience in Venezuelan communal councils, Canadian co-operatives, un-conferences and public consultations.
Jason will be selling b/w copies of his Handbook at a 50% discount of $5. You can download a free PDF of the Handbook and learn more about Dotmocracy at www.Dotmocracy.org
Please join us on September 8 from 6-9pm at OCAD’s sLAB for another lively, engaging and educational session and forward this invitation along to anyone you know who might be interested in attending.
Information and registration at our eventbrite website.