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August DwD 8.11.10 | Strategic Dialogue

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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.

Register here at EventBrite.

Dave Gray’s new book: Gamestorming

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How to apply game thinking to your business challenges:
www.gogamestorm.com

Appreciative Inquiry Workshop

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Dr. Doug Reid’s presentation on the facilitation method Appreciative Inquiry:

Thanks to 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 performed on OCAD University’s rebranding exercise.

May DwD 05.12.10 The Presence Workshop

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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.

Design Thinking…What is it really?

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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:

Imagining the Future of Leadership

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A six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future on Harvard Business Review.

Canadian Water Innovation Lab 2010

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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.

The Four Archetypal Perspectives

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Here is the presentation from our session on April 7, 2010:

April DwD session: 04.07.10

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The April 14 session will explore the approach of viewing a problem from multiple defined perspectives to expand the possible solution space.

HOMEWORK: 
Participants should come prepared with a personally significant challenge from their work so that we can unpack issues that really matter. This might be a strategic question, a client problem, an organizational or political situation, or a career challenge.

As usual, we’re on from 6-9pm at OCAD’s sLAB. Please forward this invitation along to anyone you know who might be interested in attending.

Register and find directions at our eventbrite page.