Hello Community Enthuiasts,
It's been awhile!
The last Vancouver gathering we organized was in 2012. We all have fond memories, and fantastic harvests! While we don't currently have the resources to organize another one, we are thrilled to be able to spread the word about these other events that are a perfect fit.
For those who participated in the 2012 Gathering of Community Enthusiasts you will remember the activity using the Group Works card deck, faciltiated by Dave Pollard. The Deepening Your Facilitation Practice workshop is an opportunity to use the pattern language to think about your own projects and practices.
And as always, I'm open to suggestions about how we can bring everyone together to discuss and advance our work.
Sylvia
DEEPENING YOUR FACILITATION PRACTICE: Workshop in Burnaby BC, Sat. May 24
Calling all project leaders, teachers, facilitators, coaches, public engagement practitioners, non-profit board members, and others whose work involves empowering people to participate in groups, workplaces, and communities in a more dynamic and effective way!
We invite you to attend a professional development session where you will have the opportunity to:
- Reflect on your practices
- Share dilemmas with colleagues
- Get support on upcoming meeting designs
- Storyboard events (past and future) to identify opportunities for more effectively employing the patterns of excellent group process
- Integrate exemplary patterns into your professional life (and start to speak the shared “pattern language” of facilitation)
- Engage with others who care about these things!
We’ll be using the deck Group Works: A Pattern Language for Bringing Life to Meetings and Other Gatherings as our lens. While familiarity with the deck will be helpful, it’s not essential — you’ll recognize the patterns from your own practice and pick it up quickly.
If you participated in the last workshop Group Pattern Language Project offered in BC, we expect this session will be sufficiently different to make it worth your while to join us again.
When: Saturday May 24, 10:30am to 4:30pm. A simple soup/salad/bread lunch (vegan & gluten-free) will be provided.
Where: Cranberry Commons Cohousing, 4274 Albert St (at Madison just north of Hastings), Burnaby BC.
Cost: Sliding scale $25-$150.
Registration: Please register in advance so your hosts can plan appropriately; sign up at http://groupworksdeck.org/
Pre- and post-event Work Sessions: The day before and the day after the workshop we'll be hosting work sessions for those committed to supporting this work: growing the language, articulating potential new applications, and promoting and nurturing the project. Some of the issues we’ll be exploring are developing curricula for self-guided study of how to use the cards, new “e-versions” of Group Works, and outreach activities to spread the word. If you'd like to participate or learn more about this, please email Dave (dave.pollard@gmail.com).
Led by: Sue Woerhlin, Daniel Lindenberger, & Tree Bressen. To learn more about them, check out the following:
Sue http://www.antiochseattle.edu/
Daniel http://sourcefacilitation.com/
Come participate! and let others know too: This should be a great networking and peer learning opportunity. Hope to see you there! Please forward this invitation to other people you think might be interested in attending.
—Daniel Lindenberger and Dave Pollard Group Pattern Language Project