September’s DwD explored the new board game (launched this week) by Traction Strategy, cheekily called Innovate or Dinosaur! A truly collaborative innovation game, the playful approach helps teams generate and test new ideas, create a path to assess and implement them, and builds the capacity for organizations to “innovate everyday”. Played by teams of 4 […]
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Liberating Structures for Systemic Change
So, ” how DO you change the culture around here?” July’s DwD brought Liz Rykert of Meta Strategies together with the DwD community for an exploration of Liberating Structures, a powerful set of 33 self-organizing group engagement and process change methods. The goal of the session was for all participants to learn and acquire initial experience in […]
Systemic Constellations | Where’s the Money?
Where’s the Money? Exploring for Clues. Does the collective field have anything to tell us about where the money is? Diana Claire Douglas joined us from Ottawa to share a brief (3 hour) orientation to Systemic Constellation Work, based on Bert Hellinger’s well-established practice for engaging families, organizations, and all types of social systems within […]
Designing Places & Spaces for New Learning
How might Youth Spaces in the education system support student goals and aspirations? What can we do better having learned from observing decades of Toronto’s alternative schools? How might we redesign an educational system that better serves all students and families in the city? A recent student project in Strategic Foresight & Innovation proposed a […]
Leading Between the Lines
How might we as citizens inspire responsive governance in the next term of Toronto’s city leadership and beyond? As citizens of Toronto we are responsible for the governments we elect to represent us. How can we inspire leadership for a shared, sustainable future? The rapid changes and growth that Toronto is undergoing has both local […]