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IN Innovation
Creating desired futures can require fundamentally new approaches in an
enterprise's "business". These sessions explore levels of innovation - from
product design and manufacturing, to reinventing an entire business, to
transforming the work culture. Sessions in this theme will focus on learning
for innovation.
CH Large System Change
Many of the futures we seek to bring into being cannot be accomplished by
one team, department or organisation operating independently. Sessions in
this theme will focus on building new structures and relationships that
span organisational boundaries. Specific issues will include how traditional
adversaries can work together effectively, changing mental models in complex
environments, initiating and sustaining change in global organisations,
and cross-sectoral (business, government and civil society) collaboration.
LD Leadership Development
In complex, dynamic systems, leadership must be shared. Developing leadership
for collective intelligence and responsible action is a complement to the
traditional need to develop the next generation of leaders. These sessions
will focus on developing leadership for inventing desired futures, and building
communities of leaders within and across organisations.
LR Learning Regions
As a specific type of large system change, many learning regions are emerging
- intentional networks of individuals and communities desiring to more fully
recognize and use interdependencies at a local and global level. These sessions
will examine how networks of individual communities tie the theme of learning
communities to learning organisations in a global society.
LS Learning Schools
Education and youth development are opportunities for us to create lasting
capacity for learning and change. Sessions will address the shift from teaching
to coaching, systems thinking in the classroom, youth leadership, and shared
vision and values. Please note that there will also be a pre-meeting Education
and Youth Development Forum on Tuesday and Wednesday. |
OL Organisational Learning
The capacity to create what we want collectively on a repeatable basis depends
on our mastery of organisational learning. These sessions will explore new
theoretical developments and review basic frameworks, provide opportunities
to practice new tools and methods, and consider applications of these practices
in a variety of contexts.
SB Spirit in Business
The current crisis in business ethics has degraded confidence, value and
markets. It calls for business leaders who operate daily from their internal
compasses and guiding values, who understand that integrity and ethics are
internally formed rather than legally imposed. Connecting meaningful issues
to daily business life is not a cost but an investment of time, money and
thought that bears fruit in the long run and is a building block for successful
and sustainable companies. These sessions will explore, promote and celebrate
the reconnection of ethics, values and spirit in business leadership.
SU Sustainability
A long-standing interest area within SoL centers on economic, environmental
and social sustainabilty. The coordinators of SoL's Sustainaibility Consoritum
ask, "Are we truly creating economic, ecological, and social wealth, or
are we merely extracting short-term profits, leaving long-term debts for
future generations? How do we create businesses and economies that meet
a "triple bottom line" of people, profit, and planet?" Sessions in this
theme will focus on learning for desired results and long-term sustainability.
EYD Education and Youth
Development Forum
The Education and Youth Development Forum will bring together youth and
educators to share work and ideas, inquire and learn together about the
futures they want to create, and expand and deepen their networks of relationships.
Sessions will include a Core Competencies course for Youth, presentations
by International School Connection and Team Academy and a meeting of the
Youth and Education Network (YEN).
PRE Pre-Meeting Capacity
Building Sessions
Pre-Meeting capacity building sessions will prepare participants for the
Forum while helping to build capacity and theoretical knowledge. |
