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Collaborative Leadership - Description coming soon!
Collaborative Governance - Members of collaboration often spend extraordinary amounts of time trying to sort through the “governance” of collaboration and are often frustrated with the model that emerges. This workshop describes the research findings on “good governance” in collaborations, confirms the role of governance in various types of collaborative efforts, and identifies the key principles and factors that should shape the design and assessment of a collaborative’s approach to governance.
Community Planning to Reach Agreement - Explore the goals, principles and processes of community planning. Using lecture, storytelling and group discussion, this workshop acknowledges the different contexts in which community planning takes place, while describing a comprehensive process for creating a community plan, providing a variety of tools for each of the stages of the planning process, and exploring the key issues that impact the quality and success of a community planning exercise.
Collaborating with Local Government - Local governments are playing an increasingly important role in supporting communities to build capacity so that quality of life is enjoyed, not merely endured, by its citizens. This workshop reviews the various social roles that local government can play and the relationship between politicians, staff, citizen residents and comprehensive community collaborations. Participants will explore additional ideas for gaining local government support for the communities’ agenda, learning from colleagues to deepen our understanding of how to engage with local government.
Funding for Collaboration - Finding the resources to implement your collaborative effort is important. Engaging donors early is essential. Building relationships is crucial. Paul Born will share five good ideas about vision, ideas and money. This workshop allows participants to share their stories of resource development and consider how finding resources for collaborative efforts is different than raising funds to implement projects. This workshop also provides an opportunity to learn about the essential principles and elements of fundraising, with an emphasis on engaging major donors.
Capturing and Making Sense of Collaborative Outcomes - Members of collaborations are often faced with a technically difficult set of tasks when evaluating and learning from multiple strategies and projects. This workshop explores ways to meaningfully involve a collaborative’s diverse stakeholders capturing and making sense of collaboration outcomes. The session will focus on four central issues in evaluating collaborative outcomes– such as assigning credit for outcomes and determining if a collaborative effort is successful or not – and identify several principles and techniques that participants can take back to their collaborative work.
Collaborating with Business - Why are businesses becoming involved in community collaborations? What are the various roles that they can play? What are the factors that contribute to the success of business/non-profit collaborations? What are the principles, challenges and processes for establishing successful collaborations with the business community? How do you make the case to business? How can you evaluate your own organization’s readiness to collaborate with business? Using lecture, storytelling, discussion, video, and group exercises, this workshop addresses these questions and more.
Comprehensive Strategies for Renewing Communities - Explore the interconnectedness of the conditions that cause communities to deteriorate, and the value of using a development systems approach for addressing them. The workshop will discuss the critical elements that must be considered in rebuilding deteriorated communities, present a range of strategies for renewal, and examine four different frameworks for action. Participants will engage in a planning exercise using a “strategic driver” approach.
Community Conversations & Engagement - Good dialogue goes beyond what takes place at regular meetings; good dialogue can help us to build strong, collaborative communities. This workshop explores dialogue and listening – two everyday acts that are complicated by the complexities and nuance that arise when people talk to each other about the change they want to see in their communities.
Policy & Systems Change - Collaborations can generate large-scale, deep and durable results. The purpose of this workshop is to explore how collaborations can more strategically pursue a systems change agenda, allowing participants to share their experiences of system change efforts and explore an emerging set of principles, paradoxes, dilemmas and practical aids. Participants also test and discuss the framework using a practical Canadian case study, and identify ways to upgrade and improve the emerging system change framework.
The Resilient – Versus Sustainable – Collaborative - People traditionally think of a collaboration’s life as comprised of birth and growth phases, followed by desperate attempts to ensure “sustainability”. This workshop uses emerging frameworks and concepts from social innovation and concrete case studies from across Canada to argue for the importance of the innovation, action-learning and wind-down phases of a collaborative – and the leadership and resource required to make each successful.
Convening Communities of Practice - Communities of practice (CoPs) are made up of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better through their interaction. In this workshop we will explore the collaborative principles of CoPs and share helpful tips to make a CoP work for you.
Power, Gender and Transformation in Collaboration - People bring diverse experience, including their gender lens, to interaction with collaborative processes. Come and help extract lessons learned from real experiences with power and explore how this expands our sense of personal and positive agency. Come and learn how to consider collaboration through a gender lens.
The Powerful Stranger - A key challenge in social innovation is to shift power and resources from the forces that perpetuate the status quo, to those that are working towards the transformation we desire. How do we respond when we discover that entrenched power and ideologies create barriers to achieving this?
Seeking Community, Finding Belonging in Chaotic Times - Description coming soon!
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 Sherri Torjman - Shared Space: Collaborating to Build our Communities - While the goal of the communities’ agenda is to promote resilience in order to build strong and vibrant communities, the process of the communities agenda involves work in the shared space within and between resilience clusters. It is the space between citizens and organizations within each cluster, the space between clusters and the space between communities and government – the common ground in which private troubles meet public issues. Sherri will speak to how we can work together to create “joined up” communities.
 Brenda Zimmerman - Community, Complexity, Collaboration and Change - Many of the theories about management and change believe that considering parts in isolation, specifying changes in detail, battling resistance to change, and reducing variation will lead to better performance. In contrast, complexity science suggests that relationships between parts are more important than the parts themselves. Brenda Zimmerman, co-author of Getting to Maybe joins us to consider the role of community and collaboration in complex environments.
Making it Happen: Case Studies - Across Canada, as more people work in collaboration in their communities, they encounter the challenges and opportunities we have discussed this week. This diverse group of speakers, who lead collaboratives on complex issues in very different urban communities across Canada, will share what’s worked for them in practice and how they have helped to create meaningful change in their communities.
 Michael Jones - Awakening the Commons of the Imagination - Who am I really? When do I feel most present and alive? What am I uniquely called to do? In a time of uncertainty and sudden change, leaders will need new questions, ones that help to develop qualities of being that are more organic, creative and whole. It signals a time when leaders will need to develop a capacity for experiencing and understanding a new and more subtle intelligence, a way of knowing that is not a separate mental function, but rather the source of an imaginative response to our world.
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