Highlights
A leader these days needs to be a host--one who convenes people
who convenes diversity, who convenes all viewpoints
in creative processes where our intelligence can come forth.
-- Margaret Wheatley, The Berkana Institute
Take home a new plan for community building. Learn how strangers become change makers. Unlock the mystery of co-evolving diverse, creative, motivated teams. Turn neighborhood, family, team, congregation or community into a loving and supportive group. From pair bonds to team building to community coherence--one tool strengthens them all. Find it, learn it, work with the Story-to-Change Bridge.
Attendees will witness, participate in and learn to facilitate:
- Individual and group empowerment
- Strong individual and group relations
- Increased community attachment
- Clarified and strengthened community identity
- High-performance, diverse creative team
- Universally agreed-upon values and practices to support all interpersonal work
Whether you're an educator, artist, a planner, or a community
developer, you work with people. Each has the potential to
be empowered or self defeating. Groups can be mobs
or high-performance creative teams.
One tool makes the difference, The Story-to-Change Bridge.
You know most of these skills and use them every day.
Now learn to harness their awesome life-changing power.
For forty years Tennessee's oldest town has been synonymous with story. That expertise prompted municipal leaders, the International Storytelling Center, and EPIC Community Performance to transform the Town of Jonesborough into a community-wide campus. With other communities, municipalities, schools, organizations, and corporations we'll explore the power of story to fuse relationships where there were none, and turn relationships into high performance creative teams that feel like caring families.