As our program continues to evolve, get a peek at how the agenda is taking shape below.
This gathering will provide you with inspiration, information and tools to offer the leadership required to connect, engage and mobilize citizens and your community to generate a shared vision and action plan for change.
- Learn to design and facilitate collaborative interventions
- Understand how your city can effectively tackle major social issues
- Build a vision for change and be inspired
- Develop strategies for renewing your collaborative efforts
- Reflect on and cultivate your collaborative leadership skills
- Learn when and how to engage others within an organization, with other sectors and with the community
Learn more about the operational implications of running a collaborative:
- Embrace the power of community innovation
- Develop and evolve a “theory of change” and a transformational action plan
- Employ effective techniques for community engagement
- Evaluate progress and community impact
- Develop an effective governance model
- Build for friendraising, fundraising, sustainability and resilience
- Engage various sectors including business, government, voluntary and citizens
- Embrace a policy and systems change agenda
This week is designed as an amazing learning experience but we have not forgotten that leadership is hard work. We have therefore also included many opportunities to renew yourself, to feel hopeful, inspired and optimistic about your community work, and to experience a peer learning community. Throughout the week, take advantage of our Urban Retreat modules (more details coming soon!)
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A Snapshot of our Learning Agenda
Day 1 - Build: A Learning Community ~ Collective Impact
- Convening the Learning Community
- Framing the issues facing our communities and our world
- Why Social Innovation matters today
- Hearing stories of successful Community Innovation
- Who are we? Why Collective Action?
- Now what? How do we enable the change we want to see?
- Conversation Café – Our many stories
Day 2 – Pioneering Leaders
- A new leadership is emerging
- Why old systems no longer serve us well
- Building powerful networks of change
- Collective action and change
- Diversity, assets and all that jazz
Day 3 - Mobilize: Collaborative Action ~ Community Impact
- Observing patterns of successful collaboration
- Building for resilience
- Media, marketing and social change
- Celebrating 10 years of innovation in building vibrant communities
- Visiting amazing community based innovations
Day 4 - Engage: Systems Change
- Healthy communities, complexity and collaborative leadership
- What is a community system?
- The engagement imperative
- Leadership and systems change – 9 ideas
- Celebrating our Learning Community
Day 5 - Renewal: Moving from Learning to Leadership
- Who are we now? Capturing patterns of change
- Peer learning and networks
- Success stories
- The learning journey explored
- Learning Community closes noon on Friday
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An Overview of Workshops
Innovating Together
- Complexity and Social Change
- Community Innovation
- The Four Phases of Collaborative Community Change
- Collaborating for Neighbourhood Renewal
- Funding Collaboration
- Cities that Lead
Collaborative Leadership
- A Study in Collaborative Leadership
- Collaborative Governance
- Power, Leadership and Collective Influence
- The Art of Leadership
- Forming Partnerships with Business
Learning & Evaluation
- Developmental Evaluation
- Making Sense of Collaborative Outcomes
- Developing Evaluations That Are Used
Engagement, Policy & Systems Change
- Multi-sector Engagement
- Community Roles in Policy
- Engagement Strategies for Systems Change
- Social Media Engagement and Advocacy
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A dynamic array of some of North America's most renowned and respected authorities on collaboration have now confirmed their participation at the CCI 2012.
Margaret (Meg) Wheatley is one of the most well-respected writers, speakers, and teachers of leadership and systemic change of our time. The author of six books including the international best seller Leadership and the New Science (translated into 18 languages), she has harnessed the complex wisdom of nature - helping us imagine a simpler more natural way to lead collaboratively. A doctorate from Harvard University and founder of the Berkana Institute, Meg has been a major inspiration to the Communities Collaborating Institute since it's inception with her paper on Pioneering Leaders and for the first time Meg will be presenting her ideas and engaging with learners at the institute.
Tim Brodhead is an inspirational leader and innovator who has been recognized as one of Canada’s great champions for collaborative community change. An Officer of the Order of Canada he has received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from both Carleton and Dalhousie Universities. Past President and the J. W. McConnell Family Foundation and Philanthropic Foundations he is now a senior fellow at Social Innovation Generation while serving on the boards of some of Canada’s most innovative organizations. An engaging and motivational speaker, Tim brings inspired wisdom for these times.
Al Etmanski is an author, advocate, and one of Canada’s most important social entrepreneurs embracing the importance of innovating together. President and co-founder of Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN), he led the successful campaign to establish the world’s first Registered Disability Savings Plan. Al has written two best-selling books: A Good Life and Safe and Secure. He is a founding member of the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation’s Social Innovation Generation (SIG) collaboration. Al also holds a faculty position at John McKnight’s Asset Based Community Development Institute and he has received many awards and recognitions including being elected as a global Ashoka Fellow in 2003.
Michael Jones is a Juno Award Nominee pianist and composer (12 albums) and leadership educator that will inspire our mind with his words and our souls with his music. He is the author of two books; the award winning Creating an Imaginative Life and Artful Leadership; Awakening the Commons of the Imagination. He is well known for his innovative work in bringing together authentic leadership with creative artistry to inspire personal transformation and collective learning. Michael has been a Senior Fellow with the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland, the MIT Dialogue Project, and Associate Faculty with the Executive MBA programs at The University of Texas, San Antonio.
Joe-Anne Priel may just be one of Canada’s most passionate civil servants. The General Manager of the Community Services Department which has a gross budget of over $350M and full-time staff of 1752. Joe-Anne lead the community process with the support of the Caledon Institute and developed a Social Vision for the City of Hamilton, which is now regarded as a key social policy paper in Canada and used this to guide the City of Hamilton to reach its goal of being a safe, healthy, vibrant and caring community. A founder and advocate for the poor, Joe-Anne co-convened the most significant and innovative community collaboration in Canada.
Jenny Kain is a community innovator having worked to advance new ideas with the City of Edmonton for over 20 years. She currently works as the Director of Social Development and for many years worked with a division that supported community innovations by building effective partnerships with community agencies. She has been involved in the start up of a number of successful CED projects in the City of Edmonton including Women Building Futures, a women’s trades training and affordable housing initiative, the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts and the Edmonton Social Enterprise Fund.
Alan Broadbent - is one of Canada's most influential social visionaries and philanthropists. As a business leader his work in Social policy, poverty reduction and collaborative leadership have had unprecedented national and international outcomes. Alan is Chairman and CEO of the Avana Capital Corporation, Chairman of Maytree, the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, and the Tamarack Institute. Alan is the author of Urban Nation: Why we Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong. Alan is a Member of the Order of Canada.
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The CCI is a structured learning event and workshops are a critical part of this learning.
There will be a number of new workshops delivered at the 2012 CCI and we are also bringing back the most popular workshops from last year's Institute. All the 2012 workshops will focus on current trends and content. Participants will be able to access background documents in advance of the Institute. From Monday through Thursday participants will spend three hours in workshops focused on provocative yet practical topics to develop their collaboration building skills.
These workshops provide an opportunity to share stories and enter into debate with peers while hearing about some of the latest research and thinking on the topic from Tamarack team members. In selecting your workshops, you can choose to create a custom package based on your current interests and needs. Some of the key workshop topics focus on community innovation, collaborative leadership, learning and evaluation and policy and systems change.
A complete overview of all the workshop choices will be available soon.
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