Examples of strategic conversations and training about questions that matter: -How can we nurture a shift in public discourse to a place where all voices are encouraged, heard with respect and kindness, and our passions and visions meet in shared responsibility for our communities future ? City of Upper Arlington, Columbus Ohio - A Art of hosting and harvesting training that has resulted in a formation of a core team and a support team that will involve the community in a forming a more resilient community for the future challenges. How will we together create our solutions for the future challenges of Europe?, Directors meeting, European Commission Autumn 2008. How can I create full ownership of the learning and action with people I work with? How do we practice the chaordic path and the art of hosting and harvesting - day to day in our organizations ? Action for Children and The Columbus Medical Association and Foundation, Ohio, USA How do we practice the art of hosting and harvesting at The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA What could good food also do in the USA ? - a strategic conversation for 3 days to take the USA food system to its next level of service. This year’s gathering conneted 550 people in leadership and community within the Good Food Movement who are strivingto co-create and sustain this growing movement for healthy, green,fair, and affordable food in the United States.
How can I tap into the collective intelligence in my organisation and networks?
How can I develop confidence in working with the chaos and fear I experience in groups? - Sept. 25 - 28, 2008 Melbourne, Australia - see video harvest here
We were asking the Food and Society 2008 participants to gather and become a collective body to address the following questions:
What is cooking in Good Food ?
What can Good Food also do beyond the food system?
What can we do together, beyond our personal agendas and this conference, to grow the Good Food Movement?
The Good Food community is moving into the national consciousness. It’s time to work together to enhance the strategic work happening across the country locally and nationally to grow, inspire, learn from,and help lead the movement.
See the harvest from the conversations: newsletters from the 3 days. Open Space Harvest working on the question: What could good food also do ?
Harvest from each session. These notes were taken by session participants themselves.
Public sector - What now ?, Workshop in Open Space on innovating the Public sector in Denmark with 50 academic innovators forming a agenda around this question for MindLab / The Ministry of Taxation, Denmark. See the harvest report here How will we co create sustainable and affordable Health Care for all in Columbus ? Access Health Columbus Columbus, Ohio, USA. The Community’s Purpose Statement on Health Care 2.0 The purpose of the health care system is to provide affordable & sustainable health care that supports optimal health &wellness for everyone in our community. Video on the story - Latest newspaper article - for more info - see Our Optimal Health - Executive summary & documentations How do we learn and practice sustainal be leadersip for to create healthy and vibrant communities ? What is the Art of Community leadership ? Kufunda Learning Village, Zimbabwe - Art of Hosting training, Gender Flow Game, Aikido Dojo Leaving a Mark of leaderhip - A Retirement Ceremony at The ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam How do we co create our future as a Theater of the future ? Aarhus Theater, Denmark How will we - the stakeholders - co create the plan for the best use of prime land in the center of Minehead ? Minehead - Somerset County Council, England How to meet across the boundries in personal healing and collective reconciliation ? CIRR - Center for Individual Recovery and Reconciliation, Israel and Palestine Pathways for Change - Prinary Care Trust Wiltshire, UK How will we create a Wiltshire fit for our children ? Wiltshire strategic plan process, 2003 - 2004 Wiltshire, UK http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/council What is our collective, emerging future as an organization? , BPA Business Psychology Associates - Boise, Idaho, USA KMD - Private Softward Company, Denmark The Dane Age Association, Denmark The Royal Danish Theatre, Denmark
"Thank you for your excellent help and work with this event. The feedback on the event has been very good and, as such, I would now like to offer the seminar on a regular basis in 2009. - Many thanks." - Leader in the European Commission “Harå and InterChange worked with the Wiltshire Strategic Board (our LSP) in the planning and organisation of a major conference in October 2002. This was a critical event for the Board and its partners, being the first major event that it had hosted. Its purpose was to engage as many ‘stakeholders’ whose commitment and support are vital to the achievement of the Board’s objectives. The programme design was novel, radical and on the face of it, risky. It challenged the participants to active contributions, to help to shape the event and the follow up of it. In this way, the Conference was intended to model the styles of partnership working which the Board wishes to develop and promote. It is fair to say that the Conference was a great success – the feedback confirmed that all participants found it highly enjoyable, and quite a unique experience. We are building on that event with a second conference this autumn, and we had no hesitation in asking Harå and InterChange to undertake the same role this year as last.” - Keith Robinson, Chief executive Training programs Art of Hosting trainings in Nova Scotia, Greenland, Israel, Netherlands, Zimbabwe, Canada, USA, UK, Croatia, Slovenia,The Netherlands, Denmark Cultivating authentic leadership presence - The Circle, Brush and Sword The Netrepreneur, Entrepreneurial leadership training, 2000 - 2005 The Art Of Hosting practitioners fellowship Center for Emerging Futures - individual recovery and reconciliation , Israel - Palestine
Building partnerships:
The Shambhala Institute 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 - short video clip
