METHODS FOR STRATEGIC COLLABORATION

METHODS FOR STRATEGIC COLLABORATION
20 – 22 February 2008, Singapore

Are you interested in learning

how to engage groups of 5 to 2,000 in strategic conversations?

Here is a training that will give you the foundational skills and knowledge

you need to utilize four powerful methods that are being used around the world

for breakthrough thinking, decision-making and collaborative action

FOR WHOM

Facilitators, Teachers, Trainers, Supervisors, Managers, HRD/ OD Professionals, Change Agents, Team Leaders, Project Leaders, Community Leaders, Therapists, Marketing consultants, Mediators, Quality Consultants, and anyone who works with groups and wants to enhance group effectiveness.

Appreciative Inquiry is a positive change method predicated on what’s already working and building on that success. Rather than focus on what needs to be fixed, Appreciative Inquiry looks deeply into the root causes of success and leverages and amplifies what is most successful, meaningful and alive to make dreams happen. From one-to-one conversations, incorporating storytelling about values and desires, the process expands to large group process for co-creating the future. Appreciative Inquiry is an ideal planning and management tool because it catalyzes a cascade of affirmative conversations throughout the system.

Open Space Technology quickly enables diverse groups of people, as well as those who work together every day, to tap into the collective intelligence of the whole. The principles, practices and self-organizing process of leverage each person’s passion into a call for action. In half-day to three-day Open Space gatherings, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central strategic theme. The outcome includes recorded discussions, next steps and a commitment to action.

World Café fosters collaborative dialogue in large groups by rotating participants through a series of small tables. Authentic conversations encourage sharing knowledge, building on each other’s ideas, thinking outside of the box and creating connections. This easy to use process quickly generates quality in-depth responses to challenges and opportunities.

Polarity Management™ is powerful tool that leverages the best of apparent opposites resulting in win-win solutions. Many challenges are not problems that can be solved with either/or solutions. Rather, they are dilemmas or polarities to be managed. Polarity mapping provides a complete picture of the interdependent opposing forces that often create gridlock. Working with the upsides of both poles, predictions can be made for the types of change that will result from any strategy.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

· Through experiential learning, gain a working knowledge of the principles, steps and practices of Appreciative Inquiry, World Café, Open Space Technology and Polarity Management™.
· Practice Appreciate Interviews, small group learning and large group synthesis as part of the Discovery Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
· Engage in a World Café as part of the Dream Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
· Participate in an Open Space Technology meeting as part of Design Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
· Practice Polarity Management™ as part of the Destiny Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
· Craft appreciative questions and provocative propositions in your own language and for your environment.
· Design a large group project to take home.
· Participate in two follow-up coaching sessions.

METHODOLOGY

The workshop is very hands-on. Participants will have to complete self-assessment questionnaires as pre-work and come prepared for immediate application and practice during the workshop. Some amount of ‘homework’ will have to be completed on the evenings of day 1 and day 2. Throughout the three days participants will receive extensive feedback from peers and coaching from Certified Facilitators on their performance as a facilitator. As each day is fully packed with critical learning moments, ‘time –away’ for meetings or other reasons will not be permitted.

CERTIFICATION OF COMPLETION

A Certificate of Completion will be awarded by the Facilitators Network Singapore (FNS).

FACULTY

Christine Whitney Sanchez consults internationally with organizations and communities to build the capacity for conscious leadership and strategic collaboration. She is an international pioneer in blending Appreciative Inquiry, World Café, Open Space Technology and Polarity Management™ to deepen communication through conversations that matter and to liberate self-organization so that people can strategically collaborate by taking responsibility for their passion. Christine collaborated with Claudia Haack to coordinate the largest World Café in the world and facilitated the largest Open Space event in the USA at the 2005 Girl Scout National Convention. www.christinewhitneysanchez.com

PARTICIPANT TESTIMONIALS

"I realized my dreams come true. I will be able to help others serve a worthy purpose. I saw the impact of my heart - I can't wait to live it." - Michael Jackson, March 2007, USAA Worldwide Insurance

"The high point was that my greatest learning did NOT come from where I expected it to. If you come to this workshop, be prepared to be surprised. Be prepared for a workshop that gives you MORE than what is advertised. Be prepared to learn as much from the students as you do from the teacher (which is perhaps the highest compliment that I could pay to the skill, wisdom, and vision of Christine Whitney Sanchez). Be prepared to stretch in ways that you did not even anticipate. Be prepared to see the world in whole new ways." - Mark W. Hanna, March 2007, Valley Coaching Collaborative, Chandler, AZ

"This workshop has built my confidence as a facilitator and enabled me to incorporate particularly Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space Technology into a pilot test of an activity to mobilize sector wide collaboration in order to improve the national response to orphans and vulnerable children throughout sub-Saharan Africa." - Jane Begala, March 2007, Constella Futures, Washington D.C.

“Thank you for showing me a different, more spiritual way of doing Open Space.” - Andrew Ballance, March 2007, London, England

“I plan to use some Appreciative Inquiry in my next leadership workshop in Ireland, as a first step in bringing about a change to emphasize the positive in training of our leaders.” -
Participant from Ireland, October 2004

“I’ve learned and been mentored in methodologies that work – that affect my work with others in positive, active ways – that encourage me to be congruent with my values and beliefs.” -
Participant, May 2005, Chicago Training

“I’m excited about the “click” of several concrete AI projects to address challenges that I’d been mulling for some time.” - Participant from Israel, 2004

“I discovered sound principles to be used as inner guidance throughout life and rediscovered importance of trusting that voice inside. The workshop gave me a framework for previously scattered projects in my head.” - Participant, 2004 Paris Training

“I am anxious to extend this Open Space and World Cafe process to Girl Scouts and other venues/organizations. Each participant has walked away with a bit of understanding of ‘how to hear the voices of the masses’.” - Participant, August 2005, Girl Scouts of the USA

“I wish to have many more opportunities to attend and participate in this kind of process, but also to be able to share it widely.” - Participant from South Africa, 2004

Register on line at: http://www.fns.sg

Course Fees (per participant, including meals, handouts & reference book):

IAF Members: S$990.00 nett per pax
(IAF membership is US$50 per year for developing countries, and US$125 for developed countries. Register for IAF membership via IAF website at: http://www.iaf-world.org. In Asia - Brunei, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Macau and Singapore are classified as developed and the rest of Asia as developing.)
Non-IAF member: S$1290.00 nett per pax

Overseas registrants paying by Bank Draft or TT, please add S$30 for bank charges in Singapore.

Payment by Cheque

Please make cheque payable to: “Facilitators Network Singapore Pte Ltd” and mail it to:

Facilitators Network Singapore Pte Ltd
10 Anson Road, #03-09 International Plaza, Singapore 079903

Cancellation and Postponement:
No refund or postponement is permitted but we welcome replacement for the registered participant(s) or an admin fee / cancellation fee of S$200 will apply.

After commencement of program, there will be no refund for non attendance.
Refund will NOT be given for any part of the package not taken.

FNS reserves the right to cancel or postpone the event due to unforeseen circumstances. Fees paid will be fully refunded in the event of course cancellation by FNS.

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