HOW CAN WE HARNESS THE POWER OF GENERATIVE CONVERSATION TO CREATE THE FUTURE AND THE WORLD WE  DESIRE?

The Art of Hosting & Harvesting Conversations that matter

11 - 13 September 2019

Canberra   ACT
In an era of increasing complexity and unending challenge, it is easy to become overwhelmed, disheartened and divided. More than ever, our world needs conversations that draw on collective wisdom for better outcomes.
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Many of us are looking for new ways to contribute our energy and ideas, unite diverse voices and seize every opportunity to contribute to solutions. Generative conversations are conversations that bring diverse voices together to generate and support new and innovative actions.

Training in The Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations that Matter (also known as the Art of Participatory Leadership) offers simple and powerful participatory practices, patterns and processes to host generative conversations. These approaches have been used effectively in diverse contexts worldwide to harness collective wisdom, encourage compassionate leadership, and create better social and environmental outcomes.

We warmly invite you to join our growing community of practice, for this engaging three-day training event. Together we can discover how we can create and host spaces for collaborative conversations that generate wise action – in our institutions, organisations, communities and families.

What will we explore, learn & practise?

Together we will discover how we can consciously create and host spaces for collaborative conversations that generate wise action in our organisations, communities and families.

​This training is experiential - you will have opportunities to practise ‘hosting’ various participatory processes and methodologies, while collective exploring our invitation question. The training will support you to host more effective and purposeful conversations and apply collective intelligence in complex systems.
The learning includes:
  • Simple and powerful social tools such as Circle, World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space Technology, Designing for Wiser Action, storytelling and more
  • Complementary models and frameworks including complexity theory and practice, and new organisational forms
  • Authentic presence and leadership, and working with emergence
  • Real world application

Who is it for?​

This training is for anyone and everyone who wants to explore the power of collective creativity, intelligence and collaboration with each other and within their communities
  • Department leaders, policy advisers and officers, and program managers
  • Business leaders, social entrepreneurs, community and non-profit leaders, community organisers and teams
  • Next generation leaders and other young activists
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