July 6th - 11th, 2008
Shawnigan Lake, Vancouver Island, BC
(30 minutes north of Victoria, BC)

We're excited to offer you this unique summer leadership opportunity - 'Building Capacity for a Changing Future' - a week-long learning adventure for people who are making a difference in the world and want to continue their growth and development. The week is designed for experienced leaders who will appreciate and benefit from engaging in generative dialogue with peers and building a learning experience together.

Five days to awaken, rejuvenate and learn

Give yourself the gift of a week to honour your leadership
and learning aspirations. Join us in linking personal, natural and social systems in this beautiful part of the world.
 

Why Attend?

You are someone who wants to:

• Increase insight regarding personal leadership

• Challenge old ways

• Increase capacity to be adaptable and innovative

• Deepen understanding of resilience

• Develop practical strategies for moving forward

• Establish a pattern for ongoing learning

Summer Institute Overview:

                                   
These five days are designed to awaken us to our emergent future. By working together in community and small groups, in circle and alone, we will go to our learning edges, face our fears, and deepen our awareness of what really matters.
 

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Each day will offer:                                                    

• Community conversations on Complexity, Global Perspective, Collaboration,  "Playing Big" and Energy

• Communities of practice – collegial learning opportunities based on our collective interests

• Seminars focused on the themes of self as source, engaging others, systems and paradigms

• Re-Creation – space for personal reflection, creative expression and physical re-energizing

• Collective and collaborative action learning

We Go Above and Beyond ...

In keeping with this years theme of living bolding and contributing hope in a complex world, each
co-facilitator will bring a unique perspective and will offer a number of of seminars building on the following themes:
 

Self as Source
Mary Martin

For all our increased understanding of authentic leadership, in reality we seem to continue our love affair with heroic models. What would it take for us to create a more integrated view that would contribute to our sense of wholeness as leaders and allow us to bring our full potential to the world?
 

Engaging Others
Sandy MacIver

We will delve into group and one to one possibilities for different kinds of trust-based organizational conversations. These different conversations can be involving conversations where we achieve the reflective and generative dialogue that have been the touchstone of Scharmer's work. What if story-telling, joy, fear and vulnerability and a call to action were all parts of our everyday living?
 

Engaging Systems
Diana Smith

Our understandings of systems creates a foundation for new possibilities to emerge and evolve. We are discovering a new high and more complex 'intelligences', consciousness, developmental levels, social technologies and perspectives that create a shifting context from which to lead. We will explore in depth and experience the 'oneness' that emerges when we tap into the collective wisdom of each other and leading-edge thinking from many sources. What if ...?
 

Engaging Paradigms
Michael Keller

What if thinking about how I am thinking could be the highest leverage “first step” to building capacity… AND what if my personal state-of-BE-ing, my emotions and energy, could be the critical core of my overall effectiveness in relating with others…AND what if engaging diverse multi-stakeholders was the key to tapping social and political ingenuity for rapid response to unforeseen global changes? If you got better at these, what might that make possible…?

"Cowichan (Quw ’utsun ’) means ‘land warmed by the sun ’ in the First Nations Coast Salish language.  Nestled between Victoria and Nanaimo, the Cowichan Valley is a feast for the senses – a bountiful oasis of visual and culinary delights, in which we will ‘indulge’. "      www.cowichan.bc.ca

We’ve chosen the exceptional environment of the Shawnigan Lake School to share in this week-long learning adventure, living and playing together. We will stay in the comfortable Duxbury House located on the quiet edge of campus.

There is communal dining in the Great Hall and we will have one evening out with local cuisine.  All meals are included in the Institute price and some dietary requests can be accommodated.
 

Special events will explore the
local, environmentally friendly community.  

Institute Dates:

Afternoon of Sunday, July 6 thru Lunch on Friday, July 11, 2008.

Tuition & Costs:
 

Early Bird Rate (by May 1st, 2008):

Individual Registration - $1,400 & GST (Save $150)
'Bring a Friend' - $1,200 & GST (Save $200)

Group/Corporate Teams (3+ registrants) - $1,150 & GST (Save $250)

Regular Rates - After May 1st:

Individual Registration - $1,550 & GST

'Bring a Friend' - $1,350 & GST (Save $200)

Group/Corporate Teams (3+ registrants) - $1,300 & GST (Save $250)

All registrations includes program materials, accommodation (Double occupancy) and all meals. Single rooms available (add $150).

$200.00 deposit due upon registration; full payment due by June 1, 2008. 

Michael Keller                                     mkeller@empnet.com

My work is as an innovative consultant, catalyst, and educator dedicated to building collaborative, multicultural relationships supporting personal, professional, and organization effectiveness. www.gingergroup.net. I am dedicated to creating relationships that work – recognizing that any culture is defined and sustained through interpersonal communication, the ways we talk and the ways we treat each other.  

In working with organizations over the past 19 years, I have learned: Most problems that leaders identify and want to resolve are actually symptoms of people attempting to keep pace with the changing demands being placed on them and the organization. Such symptoms are generally reflective of larger, organization-wide tension and discord that is often not openly identified or addressed – the silent culture of status quo. Without addressing the current culture context and clarifying what really matters to its members, any efforts to address positive changes are likely to be experienced as little more than over-simplistic band-aids.
 

I am truly blessed: I do for a living what I enjoy most in the world: helping people discover who they are, what strengths they have and the capacity they can bring to their lives and their organizations.  I am dedicated to increasing trust in all of our lives and to improving leadership through better relationships in organizations.

Through my twenty-two years of part time teaching at three post-secondary institutions, I have come to believe that “adult learners learn what adult learners want to learn”. I work hard at making my teaching accessible and interesting.  I delight in the continuous learning on my part that comes with teaching.

As part of living a life filled with curiosity, I have done consulting in all sectors all across North America since 1987. As well, I have recently completed a doctorate where the development of generative dialogue, the use of circle and the building of trusting leadership groups were among my foci.
 

Mary Martin                                         nexuslearning@shaw.ca
The Nexus Learning Group Inc.

My entire working life has been focused on exploring and developing the possibilities of using our full human potential in one way or another. I am dedicated to strengthening conscious leadership capacity both in myself and others with a particular interest in creating "post heroic' models of leadership.

My work as an organization consultant, both internally or externally, for over 25 years has only served to convince me that there are many opportunities for us to make organizations more human as well as productive places to be.

Most recently I have become involved with a movement called Gather the Women and our mantra locally has become: "Not the old way and not alone!" As I reflect on that wisdom it seems a very fitting frame for the leadership challenges we face in creating our preferred future.
 

I am committed to learning, systems change and deepening our awareness and understanding of who we are ‘being’ in the many roles we play. In collaboration www.gingergroup.net with others, I design processes for leading, communicating, and managing change, transformation and renewal. We apply creative inquiry and support innovative leadership that connects the personal, societal, business, governmental and ecological levels.  I work within the context of complexity and an integral approach to help individuals, groups, organizations, and communities shift thinking and build capacity.  

I’ve been a senior manager, consultant, educator and facilitator in many contexts, formal and informal, community and organizational engaging with public, private and non-profit organizations at the local, national and international level.  I’m involved with several peer learning communities and nurture a rewarding community of practice. I respect and honour the balance and joy that my friends, family and personal interests provide in my life.
 

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