Hello friends: Over the past couple of years I have been involved with the Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership as a friend, thinking partner and faculty member. Shambhala has run an annual summer institute on authentic leadership in Halifax Nova Scotia for a number of years which has brought together many people familiar to our community of Open Space practitioners including Harrison, Meg Wheatley, Glenda Eoyang, Toke Moeller and Monica Nissen, Adam Kahane, Juanita Brown and Otto Scharmer to teach modules in an inspiring multi-day retreat supporting authentic leadership in action.
This year,the institutes are running under the banner of Authentic Leadership in Action (ALIA) and there are institutes happening in Victoria May 19-22 (ALIA West<http://www.aliainstitute.org/programs/2009west/home.html> ) and Halifax June 21-27<http://www.aliainstitute.org/programs/2009summer/home.html> . One focus of ALIA West in May will be Peter Block's recent work on community and Peter will be joining us both as a speaker and as a collaborator on a module I am offering with my colleague Jennifer Charlesworth called "Hosting Artful Collaborations Across Communities and Agencies" in which we will examine the qualities of hosting and facilitating Open Space and other methodologies and how those apply to creating collaboration within communities to foster a restorative approach to community life. In Halifax, Open Space will figure prominently in a module I am leading with Tim Merry and Monica Nissen, two very experienced OST practitioners as we look at The Art of Hosting Conversations and Collaborations Across Generations. While these offerings aren't Open Space trainings per se, within our modules we explore and use Open Space as an important process for convening conversations that matter. Furthermore the gatherings themselves are informed and enlivened by many, many people from around the world who are using Open Space to do transformative work in organizations and communities. Indeed, my own first impression of this community of learning was of finding myself at home among the extended family. If you don't know about these institutes, I urge you to consider the invitations and forward them to others who may find them timely offerings. Cheers, Chris -- CHRIS CORRIGAN Facilitation - Training - Process Design Open Space Technology Weblog: http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot Site: http://www.chriscorrigan.com Principal, Harvest Moon Consultants, Ltd. * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
