 Ongoing
November 2003 ?– January 2004 - San Rafael, California
What: Compassionate Listening Photo Exhibition, ?“Opening of the Heart?”
Who: The Compassionate Listening Project
For more info: Go to www.openingoftheheart.org
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December 2003
December 2-5 - Port Townsend, Washington
What: Dynamic Facilitation Skills
Who: Jim Rough & Assoc., Inc.
For more info: Go to www.tobe.net or contact Jim Rough at or 360-385-7118
Since 1990, this 4-day public seminar has been empowering participants to reach a new level of facilitative competence.? Participants learn how to help others address difficult issues creatively and collaboratively to achieve breakthrough results. A breakthrough is a consensus process, only fast . . . and with trust, enthusiasm and personal growth. Tuition is $1395 - $995.? Call 360-385-7118 for discounts and more information.
December 4-6 ?– San Diego, California
What: The Power of Dialogue: Constructive Conversations on Divisive Issues
Who: The Public Conversations Project
For more info: Contact Manda Bohannon at 888-727-8326 or , or go to www.publicconversations.org/pcp/index.asp?page_id=123&catid=51
When disagreements develop into polarized conflicts, discussion often gives way to shouting matches or icy silence. During this hands- on workshop, participants will explore ways to promote the type of meaningful dialogue that has the power to shift communication and relationships. Participants will learn the key elements of PCP dialogues through the process of designing, facilitating, and debriefing an extended dialogue simulation. Fee is $480-$640 (sliding scale).
December 4-6 ?– Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
What: Facilitating the Whole System in the Room (FWS)
Who: Future Search Network
For more info: Go to www.futuresearch.net, or call 1-800-951-6333.
FWS presents a philosophy, theory and method for transforming diverse work groups of all kinds. This seminar, integrating system change and personal growth theories is for experienced leaders who want to increase their capacity to help large diverse stay task-focused and accomplish ambitious goals. Future search experience is not necessary for this workshop. FWS runs one afternoon, one full day and one morning. Tuition is $795.
December 8 ?– Dearborn, Michigan
What: Seeds of Peace Michigan Friends Gala
Who: Seeds of Peace
For more info: Email
December 8-10 - Boston, Massachusetts
What: Foundations for Leadership Course
Who: The Society for Organizational Learning
For more info: or 231-439-9132
The purpose of this program is to explore the human sources of natural leadership. Leadership is both deeply personal and inherently collective. At its essence it concerns the capacity of a human community to shape its destiny and, in particular, to bring forth new realities in line with people's deepest aspirations. This program goes deeply into the domains of personal mastery, collaborative inquiry, and the systems perspective applied to sustaining profound change. The special contribution of this leadership program comes as participants discover the profound connections between personal mastery and systems thinking, seeing that deep change in our social systems and in oneself are inseparable from each other.
December 10-12 ? San Francisco, California
What: Open Space Technology Learning Workshop
Who: Opening Space
For more info: Contact Lisa Heft at
Learn how to facilitate Open Space for deep communication, intergroup understanding and innovative thinking in this experiential workshop. In Open Space, participants co-create their own agenda and working sessions around a central theme of strategic importance. This experiential workshop will include discussion of participants? learning about systems and chaos theory, behavior change and the grief, loss and transformation cycle, a full day in Open Space, and all of the things you may wish to know for holding your own Open Space event ? from planning, preparation and design to logistics, talking with sponsors/clients, developing invitations and themes, recording proceedings, event follow-up, ?what-ifs? and anything else you personally would like to share or ask about. Registration fees are flexible.
December 12-14 ? Tiverton, Rhode Island
What: Reconciliation Leadership Program: Work, Purpose, Place and Peace
Who: The Institute for Global Leadership
For more info: Go to www.global-leader.org and click on ?upcoming,? or call Virginia Swain at 508-753-4172 x3.
December 11-13 ?– San Francisco, California
What: 5th Annual Working Session on Tools for Community Design and Decision-Making
Who: the National Charrette Institute and PlaceMatters.com
For more info: Go to www.placematters.com
This working session will explore how the application of new technological and non-technical visioning and planning tools can improve local decision-making about growth and development.
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January 2004
January 2-4 ? New York, New York (United Nations)
What: Reconciliation Leadership Program: Designing and Implementing Interventions for Community, National, Institutional and Global Change
Who: The Institute for Global Leadership
For more info: Go to www.global-leader.org and click on ?upcoming,? or call Virginia Swain at 508-753-4172 x3.
January 15 ? Boston, Massachusetts
What: Preparing for Constructive Dialogue
Who: The Public Conversations Project
For more info: For a complete workshop description or to register, visit www.publicconversations.org.
This workshop examines the vital role the exploratory, contracting and collaborative design phases play in influencing the course of conversations.
January 15 ?– Boston, Massachusetts
What: Eliciting New Stories about Conflict: Interviewer Stance, Framework, and Practice
Who: The Public Conversations Project
For more info: Contact Manda Bohannon at 888-727-8326 or , or go to www.publicconversations.org/pcp/index.asp?catid=51
People "stuck" in conflict often view the situation and the parties involved through a narrow and unchanging lens. This workshop presents ways to elicit enriched stories that help people move beyond their old, polarizing "conversations" to develop new perspectives and relationships. Participants will explore frameworks and experiential exercises to learn how to listen for what is not said -the absent but implicit -- so they can assist parties in thinking about their conflicts in new and constructive ways. $160 fee.
January 19?–23 - Alexandria, Virginia
What: IAP2 Certificate Course in Public Participation
Who: The Perspectives Group
For more info: Go to www.theperspectivesgroup.com to download the registration package or contact Crystal Sarno at 703-837-1197 or
The Perspectives Group is offering all three modules of the IAP2 Certificate Course in Public Participation. ?By taking these modules, you will receive a certificate from the leading association for public participation. ?Take all three, or just focus on the foundations to sharpen your skills. The three modules are: Planning for Effective Public Participation (first 2 days; $550), Effective Communication for Public Participation (3 rd day; $275) and Techniques for Public Participation (last 2 days; $550). The Planning module is a prerequisite for all other IAP2 training.
January 24-26 - Marin County, California
What: Introductory Compassionate Listening workshop
Who: The Compassionate Listening Project
For more info: Go to www.compassionatelistening.org or email
January 29-31 ?– Washington, DC
What: The Power of Dialogue: Constructive Conversations on Divisive Issues
Who: The Public Conversations Project
For more info: Contact Manda Bohannon at 888-727-8326 or , or go to www.publicconversations.org/pcp/index.asp?page_id=123&catid=51
When disagreements develop into polarized conflicts, discussion often gives way to shouting matches or icy silence. During this hands- on workshop, participants will explore ways to promote the type of meaningful dialogue that has the power to shift communication and relationships. Participants will learn the key elements of PCP dialogues through the process of designing, facilitating, and de- briefing an extended dialogue simulation. Fee is $480-$640 (sliding scale).
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February 2004
February 3-7 ?– San Diego, California
What: CPSI Winterfest
Who: Creative Problem Solving Institute
For more info: Go to www.cpsiconference.com or contact Candace Wilborn at 540-568-6817 or
CPSI Winterfest is the place to immerse yourself in a wide range of creative thinking strategies. CPSI offers countless excellent programs and workshops in creative problem solving, creative thinking, innovation, facilitation, and personal performance. Winterfest promises to deliver what CPSI participants have come to expect: tools, techniques, models, and processes that expand individual potentials, abilities, and choices in personal and professional settings.
February 5-7 ?– Tallahassee, Florida
What: Annual Institute on College Student Values (and reconvening of the Democracy Project's ?“Discussion, Dialogue, and Deliberation: Three-D Teaching and Learning?” working group)
Who: The Center for the Study of College Student Values at Florida State University
For more info: For more info on the Institute program, view the brochure or email . For more on the Three-D working group, contact Nancy Thomas, Director, Democracy Project, Society for Values in Higher Education, at 860-657-9907 or .
In April 2003, college and university faculty and administrative leaders met as a working group entitled ?“Discussion, Dialogue, and Deliberation: Three-D Teaching and Learning.?” Hosted by SVHE's Democracy Project, the group engaged in study circles on issues of conflict on campus, studied several dialogue models and practices, and considered the challenge of assessment. Proceedings from the working group can be downloaded here. The Democracy Project will be reconvening its Three-D working group at the annual Institute on College Student Values. Academics interested in advancing democratic pedagogies and decision-making strategies on campus are welcome to join the working group.
February 9?27 - Wageningen, the Netherlands
What: Course on gender, organisational change, agriculture and leadership (GOAL)
Who: the International Agricultural Centre (IAC)
For more info: Go to www.iac.wur.nl/iac/index2.htm? courses/module.cfm?code=55/00 or email or
A course on mainstreaming gender equality perspectives in organisations and programmes involved in agricultural and rural development. The focus is on participation and organisational learning.
February 9?27 - Wageningen, the Netherlands
What: Course on Participatory Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation
Who: the International Agricultural Centre (IAC)
For more info: Go to www.iac.wur.nl/iac/index2.htm? courses/module.cfm?code=61/20 or email or
How to design and institutionalise planning, monitoring & evaluation in projects and programmes in a participatory and learning way for enhanced performance.
February 10 ?– Boston, Massachusetts
What: Inquiry as Intervention: Crafting Questions with Purpose and Impact
Who: The Public Conversations Project
For more info: Contact Manda Bohannon at 888-727-8326 or , or go to www.publicconversations.org/pcp/index.asp?page_id=124&catid=51
The questions asked by practitioners affect what the parties in a conflict think is possible for their communication, their relationship, and the outcome of their conflict. Since 1989, the Public Conversations Project has been refining the use of "opening questions" in transforming conflictual conversations. Participants in this workshop will focus on the power of crafting, asking, and responding to questions, and will explore the power and potential of questions for their own practice and daily lives. Fee is $160-$250 (sliding scale).
February 16-20 ?– New York, New York
What: Designing and Implementing Interventions for Global Change at the United Nations for a Culture of Peace
Who: Institute for Global Leadership
For more info: Contact Virginia Swain at 508-753-4172 x3, 508-245-6843 (mobile), or , or go to www.global-leader.org?
This course is for people who are searching for a new way to address global challenges that emphasize respect for human rights, peaceful settlement of disputes, ethics, values and systems that will secure greater ecological integrity, economic and social well being. Eighty participants from fifteen countries have taken the five previous courses, encouraging global citizens to come whether seasoned or not with previous UN experience. Every day begins with reflection in the Dag Hammarskjold Meditation Room at the United Nations. $700 plus room and board.
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March 2004
March 8-11 - Port Townsend, Washington
What: Dynamic Facilitation Skills
Who: Jim Rough & Associates, Inc.
For more info: Go to www.tobe.net or contact Jim Rough at or 360-385-7118
Since 1990, this 4-day public seminar has been empowering participants to reach a new level of facilitative competence.? Participants learn how to help others address difficult issues creatively and collaboratively to achieve breakthrough results. A breakthrough is a consensus process, only fast . . . and with trust, enthusiasm and personal growth.
Tuition is $1395 - $995.? Call 360-385-7118 for discounts and more information.
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April 2004
April 1-4 ?– Los Angeles, California
What: In2:InThinking Network Forum 2004: "Making a Difference From Where I Am"
Who: In2:IN
For more info: Go to http://in2in.org
The In2:InThinking Network comprises people who endorse Better Thinking for a Better Future- reaching individuals and organizations throughout the world. We aim to create awareness and consciousness about how thinking can bring forth a better world. We believe that by "thinking about thinking" - or inthinking - we will manage resources, acquire knowledge, work together, lead organizations, and plan more effectively. With inthinking we create a new awareness of various forms of thinking, their interdependency, the possible ways of integrating them, and including them - toward more joy and quality of life in individuals and organizations. Registration fee is $250.
April 19-23 ? New York, New York (United Nations)
What: Designing and Implementing Interventions for Community, National, Institutional and Global Change (course)
Who: The Institute for Global Leadership
For more info: Go to www.global-leader.org and click on ?upcoming,? or call Virginia Swain at 508-753-4172 x3.
April 20-21 ? Boston, Massachusetts
What: Staying Grounded When on the Spot A Skill Building Workshop for Facilitators
Who: The Public Conversations Project
For more info: For a complete workshop description or to register, visit www.publicconversations.org/pcp/index.asp?catid=51
No amount of pre-meeting collaboration and preparation can guarantee that a meeting will be without surprises or confusion. When these occur, facilitators need to know what to do or refrain from doing. They need to be grounded in a principled approach to serving the participants and their shared purposes. With such grounding, responses can be chosen quickly or perhaps even invented on the spot. In this workshop, through presentations, exercises, case examples and discussion, participants will develop skills in staying grounded, even in difficult moments.
April 26 - 30 - Boston, Massachusetts
What: Core Competencies Course, Building Learning Organizations - New Perspectives for Individual and Collective Learning
Who: The Society for Organizational Learning
For more info: or 231-439-9132
Participants will come away with an understanding of the core competencies required for building learning organizations and will have the experience of participating in a learning community for five days. The course is a unique opportunity to explore and experience how the disciplines of systems thinking, personal mastery, team learning and dialogue, mental models, and shared vision can profoundly affect learning and influence management practices. It will enhance the participants' ability to think systemically, communicate effectively, and lead honorably.
April 28 - May 1 - Pella, Iowa
What: White Privilege Conference
For more info: Go to www.whiteprivilegeconference.com
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May 2004
May 13 ?– Boston, Massachusetts
What: Eliciting New Stories about Conflict: Interviewer Stance, Framework, and Practice
Who: The Public Conversations Project
For more info: Contact Manda Bohannon at 888-727-8326 or , or go to www.publicconversations.org/pcp/index.asp?page_id=205&catid=51
People "stuck" in conflict often view the situation and the parties involved through a narrow and unchanging lens. This workshop presents ways to elicit enriched stories that help people move beyond their old, polarizing "conversations" to develop new perspectives and relationships. Participants will explore frameworks and experiential exercises to learn how to listen for what is not said -the absent but implicit -- so they can assist parties in thinking about their conflicts in new and constructive ways. Fee is $160-$250 (sliding scale).
May 20 ?– New York City, New York
What: Seeds of Peace Annual Gala
Who: Seeds of Peace
For more info: Go to www.seedsofpeace.org
May 24 - 26 - Boston, Massachusetts
What: Foundations for Leadership Course
Who: The Society for Organizational Learning
For more info: or 231-439-9132
The purpose of this program is to explore the human sources of natural leadership. Leadership is both deeply personal and inherently collective. At its essence it concerns the capacity of a human community to shape its destiny and, in particular, to bring forth new realities in line with people's deepest aspirations. This program goes deeply into the domains of personal mastery, collaborative inquiry, and the systems perspective applied to sustaining profound change. The special contribution of this leadership program comes as participants discover the profound connections between personal mastery and systems thinking, seeing that deep change in our social systems and in oneself are inseparable from each other.
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June 2004
June 28-July 2 ? New York, New York (United Nations) 
What: Designing and Implementing Interventions for Community, National, Institutional and Global Change (course)
Who: The Institute for Global Leadership
For more info: Go to www.global-leader.org and click on ?upcoming,? or call Virginia Swain at 508-753-4172 x3.
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