A three‐day intensive exploring of participatory practices for inviting and hosting game‐changing conversations in our groups, organizations, communities and movements.
Art of Participatory Leadership and Social Collaboration serves as a way to see, work with and make new patterns in the world across groups, interests and issues. Art of Participatory Leadership and Social Collaboration supports inquiry, allowing us to be in tough, complex issues together and to build new, authentically inclusive ways to go forward. We will experience Self-Organizing Systems, Emergence, World Cafe, Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, Circle, harvesting and storytelling, play, rest, and stillness.
Wisdom ‐ Voice ‐ Dignity ‐ Action
What conversations are you longing to have with your organization or community?
Our Reasons For Coming Together:
- To gather people who are driven by social transformation and who have stories to share and questions to ask
- To dive deeply into better ways of turning the conversations to create new directions
- To experience participatory practices and to find innovation by moving from problems to possibility
Participants Will:
- Explore emerging models that go beyond top‐down, charismatic and traditional ways of leading change
- Learn skills for hosting participatory conversations and decision‐making
We Bring These Resources:
- Courageous imaginative leaders
- Wisdom, experience and perspective to be change‐makers
- The ability to connect across diversity of conflicting perspectivas
- The cultural responsiveness and relationships to engage everyone; and,
- Enough audacity to challenge the powers that be as well as enough humility to know there is more to learn Practice building sustainable relationships across expertise, causes and movements
This Is What We Need Now:
- People who expect to build a new world rather than fixing the old one.
Your Hosting Team:
Caitlin Frost - Harvest Moon Consultants; Bowen Island, British Columbia (caitlinfrost.ca)
Chris Corrigan - Harvest Moon Consultants; Bowen Island, British Columbia (chriscorrigan.com)
Teresa Posakony – Berkana Institute; Seattle, Washington
Tenneson Woolf – Berkana Institute; Lindon, Utah (tennesonwoolf.com)






