OSR Alumni Association presents
2009 Annual conference
Designing at your edge
with Michael Keller and Jean Singer
| Saturday, June 20 | Limited to 30 participants |
| 90 minutes: 10:30 am–Noon — Sold out | |
| Repeats: 1:15–2:45 pm — Limited availability | |
Design is the sign of human intent. Design is at the center of creating conditions for change.
As leaders and animators of change in these extraordinary times of uncertainty and ambiguity, what does it mean to be agile and on your design edge when the unexpected shows up?
Intentional design and personal presence are at the center of creating conditions for change. Effective and sustainable social change has at its core intentional design that invites people to explore what has meaning and relevance — the known, unknown and the unknowable.
In this workshop, you’ll use several practical participatory processes that you can bring to your work, including the concepts of minimum critical structure and free-listing. And you'll explore your own agility and artistry when at your design edge and you'll experience designs for emergence.
Your workshop takeaways
- Free-listing process;
- Reflection on your learning edges (what you want to get better at);
- Peers for resources in grappling with your deepening design artistry.
Links
Download free-listing handout, 32kb, .pdf
Sign up for conference email updates.- Download conference-flyer.pdf, 244kb
- Sponsored in part by a contribution from the Institute for Systemic Learning, and by Seattle University, home to OSR and generous provider of conference spaces.
Conference workshops
- Saturday, June 20
- Designing at your edge — Michael Keller, Jean Singer
- Essential questions for work-life balance — Freddie Barrett
- Exposing your nonconscious resistance to change — Thomas O'Connor
- Leveraging the non-verbal with Samurai decisiveness — Kim Frerichs, Cathie Bachy
- Occupational integrity — Christie Diamond
- One practice from the art of illumination — Mark Shimada
- Introduction to the organization workshop — Sophie Parker
- Tapping sources of innovation — Dee Endelman, Lucy Garrick
- Sunday, June 21
- Five practices of the art of illumination — Steve Byers, Mark Shimada
3 ways to learn more
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