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 […]
Category: Dream
Dialogue for spiritual vision, transcendence, reflection
Where is Home? Leadership & the Soul of Placemaking
June’s Unify Toronto dialogue hosted leadership educator, facilitator and Juno-nominated pianist Michael Jones, inspired by his forthcoming book: The Soul of Place: Reimagining Leadership through Arts, Nature, and Community. The book is expected shortly, and will be available for August’s Design with Dialogue (8/13) as Michael returns to OCADU with a second session for the book […]
Facing our Future Challenges with Authentic Hope: The Work that Reconnects
The Work that Reconnects was an evening of dialogue and experiential exercises based on teachings and practices developed over the last 40 years by eco-philosopher Joanna Macy and colleagues. The workshop offered an inspiring context for action and participation in the Great Turning toward a life-sustaining society and world. Joanna spoke June 21st to a […]
Designing a Future for our Future: Personal Foresight
Get ready for The Multiplicity. This workshop engaged participants to co-create multiple personal futures in large and small group collaboration. This social design experiment in personal foresight generated the creation of possible personal scenarios for the challenging next-future term possibilities. We started by creating a personal profile for the Low Tech Social Network. Communities listed […]
DwD Reflection & 2012 Shared Vision
Every end of year we retreat and reflect on what we learned over the year’s events and who we are becoming in DwD community and practice. Fifteen people attended to co-create the vision for 2012 priorities, sessions, and direction. An Appreciative Inquiry guided the exploration and reflection, leading to harvests for each phase, as illustrated: […]