David Cooperrider is one of the founders of the Appreciative Inquiry school of change, if that’s what I may call it. This morning he gave a conference call on MaestroConference to discuss where AI is going now. The major theme was that AI is moving towards empowering/enabling change “on the scale of the whole”. He [...]
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On Tuesday I led a brainstorming session for a group of store managers of a travel agency company. It was part of their monthly “team leaders” meeting, held at the area manager’s house.
Here are the charts… this demonstrates how a simple graphic exercise can help a group with “divergent” work – coming up with lots [...]
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It’s nice to get client testimonials like this!
Our Board of Directors needed to get a firm plan to rebuild our organization after a major funding loss. Susan planned and led a strategic planning session using graphic facilitation. Her style of moderating gave us the opportunity we needed to discuss the concepts and vision at the [...]
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Yesterday morning, I worked with Paul and Sheila in a Visual Life Planning session at my office. Paul and Sheila are warm, loving people who have travelled far and wide, and each of them is committed to leading a fully evolved and self-actualized life. They’ve been looking for a way to pull together the various [...]
Last Monday I recorded the strategic planning retreat for the South Island Partnership, a collaborative effort between Camosun College and five school districts in the area. Their mandate is to develop and operate programs that help students transition between secondary and post-secondary training. The session was facilitated by Mitchell Temkin of Associatus Consulting. The South [...]
Thank you for being patient – it’s been a very interesting week of beginnings and endings!
Here are the charts from the Business Leaders Summit. Clicking on the thumbtail will take you to another page just for the image, where if you click again on the image you’ll see the full size.
In between the brainstorming and [...]
Early in February, I did some values visualizing work with Melissa Phillips, an amazing Shiatsu practitioner and friend. She generously allowed me to “test out” my visual life inventory model with her and even more generously has allowed me to share the results with my blog readers.
The process for creating this tree was:
Melissa reviewed a [...]
That was the scene last week, on March 17, when I facilitated a group of 60 women who needed to brainstorm what they need out of their leaders for the coming year. The conference was in Richmond over three days, so I got to travel back and forth on Harbour Air – returning to Victoria [...]
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