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Sat, Jun 19, 2010	For Alumni, Prospective students, Current students, General public
8:00– 5:00 pm	Admission $99
Location Seattle University, Student Center 901 12th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122

Conference Files and Notes will be posted here

This year’s conference explores the emerging field of arts in the design and leadership of change.

Experience arts-based approaches and new practical tools.

Learn how the arts are a change medium for collaboration, increased performance, and creative development for businesses, as well as for personal growth.

Practice innovative ways of building and enhancing relationships in our organizations and communities that promote conversations about possibilities.

Explore how the arts and change theory are bridging and evolving to meet the adaptive challenges of the world in which we now live.

Conference features Plenary Speakers Adam Kahane and Jeff Barnum of Reos Partners, 
the author and illustrator of 
“Power and Love: How to Create New Social Realities”

Adam Kahane writes:

"Why do some groups of people manage to solve complex problems, while others stumble or fall?"

"The two methods most frequently employed to solve our toughest social problems—either relying on violence and aggression, or submitting to endless negotiation and compromise—are fundamentally flawed. This is because the seemingly contradictory drives behind these approaches—power, the capacity to achieve one's purpose, and love, the will to unite with others—are actually complementary.  As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. put it, “Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.” Is there another way?"

For the last twenty years Adam Kahane, Jeff Barnum, and their colleagues at Reos Partners have pioneered a form of “social creativity” around the world that has enabled businesses, organizations, and governments to make progress on tough and vital challenges: food security, health care, economic development, judicial reform, peace making, child protection, climate change.  In this extraordinary event they will draw on their experience to describe their approach, their learning, and the results they’ve achieved.

Food: Conference registration will include continental breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack.

Parking: Map Parking available on 1st level of the Murphy Garage located at 11th and E. Cherry.

Questions? Contact Paula Brekke, email brekkep@seattleu.edu or call 206-296-5898

Related links

Listen to interview with Adame Kahane
Check out our Conference Flyer
And here is the Conference Workshop Descriptions
Plenary speaker Adam Kahane
Plenary speaker Jeff Barnum

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