Coming together with others as part of an intentional learning community provides invaluable opportunities to build new relationships, share knowledge, gain new insights to advance our collective work and ultimately energize and inspire one another.
This page offers a listing of upcoming learning opportunities that you may want to be part of:
These face-to-face events offer you the opportunity to join with colleagues and peers who are actively working in their communities.
2012 Communities Collaborating Institute: Innovating Together
The Communities Collaborating Institute (CCI), Tamarack’s signature, week-long learning event, provides a unique opportunity to join a dynamic learning community of practitioners from across Canada and beyond who are committed to deepening their capacity to lead community collaborations.
The 2012 Communities Collaborating Institute: Innovating Together is geared specifically for those wanting to rejuvenate and grow their collaborative leadership capacity.
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, including Michael Jones, Al Etmanski, Tim Brodhead, and Margaret Wheatley.
When and Where:
October 1-5, 2012 at the Delta Kitchener-Waterloo, in Kitchener, Ontario.
Tamarack offers free tele-learning seminars that are brought to you live via telephone conference line. Dial-in information will be emailed to you shortly after you register for a call. It is important to register even if you are unable to attend because, after the seminar, we will send you an email with a link to the full audio from the call and further resources for learning.
Note: While there is no fee associated with your participation, the tele-bridge service we use is based in the U.S., so long distance charges through your long distance service provider may apply.
Title: Making Collective Impact Work Speakers: John Kania and Paul Born Location: via conference call Date: Tuesday, May 22th, 2012 - 11:55am - 1:00 pm, ET Details: John Kania has 25 years of experience advising senior management on issues of strategy, leadership, assessment, and organizational development, John oversees FSG's consulting practice. He is a co-author of two recent very well received reports, Collective Impact and Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work. John will be talking about Channeling Change: Making Collective Impact Work on this call. The article outlines the conditions and phases of collective impact as well as exploring several examples of collective impact at work. Some of these examples are Canadian approaches such as the Calgary Homelessness Foundation and Vibrant Communities Canada. Join with John and Paul Born on this call as they discuss how to make collective impact work. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion towards the end of the interview.
Title: Maximize Your Community Engagement Speakers: Tammy Dewar and Tracy Smyth, Raising the Village Consulting Location: via conference call Date: Thursday, June 14th, 2012 - 11:55am - 1:00 pm, ET Details: Tammy and Tracy are the co-founders of Raising the Village Consulting. They are experts in helping individuals and communities articulate and achieve their goals to build vibrant, caring communities. Register to learn more about how you can maximize your community engagement with tools, tips, tricks and tested strategies. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask your own questions on this call.
Practitioners meet by telephone and online to learn and share their experiences.The calls will focus mainly on poverty reduction, but are open and relevant to anyone working with multi-sector, comprehensive and community-based approaches to social issues.
Each Community of Practice (CoP) usually meets every two months at a regular time via conference call; topics are determined by the members of the CoP. Dial-in information and background on each call are sent by email about a week before each call.
The CoPs are smaller, more interactive groups than Tamarack's open tele-learning calls; we expect CoP members will commit to participating regularly, to freely sharing their experience and occasionally leading a call.
You need only register once to join a specific CoP; you will then receive notices of future calls for that CoP. To register or if you no longer want to receive the emails for a specific CoP, please email us here.
