Reflections from 2013 participants
This was no regular leadership workshop. This was an opportunity to get to the bottom of what is really holding each of us back.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar || Speakers: VC St. John & VC St. Michel
This three-part podcast series explores how to facilitate the meaningful participation of low-income individuals in leadership roles at both grassroots and more formal levels.
Resource Type: Audio Seminar || Speakers: George Donahue, Catherine Goulet, Mary & Charles Ewing
This three-part podcast series explores how to facilitate the meaningful participation of low-income individuals in leadership roles at both grassroots and more formal levels. The 3rd podcast in this series explores how The Community Action Agency and Regent Park Neighbourhood Initiative are examples of capacity...
Hildy Gottlieb discusses leading from the middle and how it brings out the best in us all.
Residents must be the drivers of change in their own local neighbourhoods. They have to own it, demand it, and work for it.
Audio Seminar || Margaret (Meg) Wheatley
In this audio seminar, Paul Born speaks with Margaret (Meg) Wheatley about her seminal essay from a decade ago Pioneering Leaders and explores how her work has continued to evolve and deepen: reaffirming the power of community and the importance of being a "warrior for the human spirit."
Resource Type: Article | Author: Michael Jones
In this article, Michael Jones – a Juno Award Nominee pianist, composer and leadership educator – suggests that leaders must shift their mindset from being heroes to artists which will require them to cultivate new disciplines for accessing the subtle power of the imagination.
Encouraging change is like water-skiing ... are you trying to water-ski all by yourself?
A Framework for Re- Generative Learning and Change
Most communities are not at a loss for innovative ideas. What they often lack however is a supportive environment – or fertile soil – for these seeds to take root and grow.
Leading in Turbulent Times
To lead in turbulent times is much like living at the moving edge of the tides of change. Leaders need to be open, like a pianist, to connecting with the emergent flow of their own inner knowing for therein lies the intuition that guides them home.
Discovering What Our World Wants To Be
In this world of complexity and constant change, when it is difficult to have confidence in a long term plan or strategy, there is a thread we can follow and it is the thread of our own aliveness
Michael Jones
Resource Type: Audio Seminar || Speaker: Katharine Pearson
This podcast explores the concept of applied dissemination through several case studies and an examines the Sustaining Social Innovation initiative led by the McConnell Foundation in 2006.
Discover a New Approach for Thinking about Organizations and Collaboration.
If we understood how life organizes, how might we organize differently? In her book, Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, Margaret Wheatley introduced new approach for how we think about organization and collaboration. Here she shares her thoughts about leadership and collaboration in...
