SPECIAL EVENT
Sunday November 3, 2013
10am - 4pm
Espace La Fontaine
How can crisis strengthen and revitalize our communities?
And what if we don't wait for crisis?
Sunday November 3, 2013
10am - 4pm
Espace La Fontaine
How can crisis strengthen and revitalize our communities?
And what if we don't wait for crisis?
We live in turbulent
times. Change is our constant companion. How do we thrive in times of change?
How can we crystallize new possibilities rather than fracturing with
brittleness?
Join us for this special conference hosted by Thrivability Montreal, featuring visiting guests Bob Stilger and Yuka Saionji, who will share powerful, inspiring stories
of resilience in Japan following the March 2011 disaster. Through a mix of storytelling, experiential learning, conversation, reflection and play, we will explore these questions:
- In a crisis,
what are the fertile conditions that enable leadership to emerge and that
enhance our capacity for coherent action? What is it that brings out the
best in us, individually and collectively?
- How can we
create those conditions in our communities and organizations -
without waiting for a crisis?
In crisis, we draw on
our connections; we improvise; and we wholeheartedly serve life. On November 3, we will explore how we do this, together.
The fee for participation is $200, including lunch and refreshments. Our
goal is to make this event accessible at the same time that we honour its full
value and cost. In this spirit, please feel welcome to propose a fee that will
allow you to be with us.
You’ll find more
information about Bob, Yuka and local hosts Michelle Holliday and Belina Raffy below.
To register, visit:
www.ThrivingThroughCrisis.eventbrite.com.
Please RSVP no later than October 28. If you have
questions, please contact Michelle Holliday at 514-299-9884 or at michelle@thrivableworld.org. We hope you will join
us.
Michelle Holliday is a Montreal-based consultant, facilitator and presenter with
20 years’ experience in organisational strategy. Through her work, she inspires and supports
the fertile conditions for creativity, collaboration and resilience to
emerge. She is the founder
and principal of Cambium, a multi-disciplinary team offering an innovative and
integrated approach to strategic planning, organisational performance and
branding and communications. She is driven by the desire to help usher in an
expanded set of beliefs and practices based on a view of organizations as
living systems.
Bob
Stilger, PhD works with
people around the world who are building thriving, resilient communities. Since 2011 much of his time has been spent n
Japan working with people to use the 3.11 disasters as a springboard to create a
new future. In 1974 he co-founded
Northwest Regional Facilitators, one of the early community development
corporations in the US, and served as its Executive Director for 25 years. For
the first decade of this century, he worked with The Berkana Institute, serving
as its Co-President. Berkana, founded in
the early 1990s by Margaret Wheatley, worked with communities and pioneering
leaders in all types of organizations throughout the world. Bob hosted many of Berkana’s global Learning
Journeys, developed Berkana’s learning and
consulting programs, and was one of the many founders of the Art of Hosting.
Currently Co-President of New Stories, Bob teaches in three graduate schools
and works as a community and organizational consultant, speaking and offering
workshops on transformative leadership in the Americas and Asia. His doctoral
research and continued inquiry in the world is around the emergence of forms of
leadership which bring forward the wealth and wisdom of community.
Yuka
Saionji is a third-generation
peacemaker who works with the Goi Peace Foundation,
which is dedicated to promoting world peace, transcending all boundaries of
race, religion, or politics, with a belief that peace begins in the mind of
each individual. Yuka also serves as
Vice-Chairperson of Byakko Shinko Kai, founded
40 years ago by her grandfather, Masahisa Goi. Byakko Shinko Kai’s strong
advocacy for world peace begins with the simple prayer, “May Peace Prevail on
Earth,” and spreads through a variety of events including the global,
interfaith Symphony of World Peace Prayers and through the World Peace Pole
movement. Yuka is a board member of Miratsuku, a
non-profit organization working on community-building through dialogue. In
2012, she spoke at the UN General Assembly about peace and resilience and
received a standing ovation. Yuka is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders in
Service to Conscious Evolution, and she works with youth around the world on
projects for peace. She is also involved in the World Spirit Youth Council,
which is a movement to activate spirituality among young people from many
countries. Yuka was born and raised in Tokyo and lived in the United States and
Germany during her childhood years. She has a degree in law and has a published
book in Japan called The Notebook of the Heart.
Together
with Belina, Michelle is launching a global quest called Thrivable World to
chart how organizations must be if humanity is to survive and thrive. The quest will begin on January 23, 2014.
Belina
Raffy, MBA, is a global
consultant and facilitator, as well as a master at creating engaging,
effective, aligned learning experiences. She works with a wide variety of
organizations around the world to create the conditions for people, businesses
and the Earth to thrive. Specifically, she equips clients with applied
improvisation tools, techniques and ways of thinking that enable more creative,
joyful and effective collaboration. Her
clients include Nestle, P&G,
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coast & Fisheries Governance for Ghana, Symantec, Kew
Royal Botanical Gardens, Charity Finance Group and Newcastle Science City. She is passionate
about bringing the thrivability movement to life around the world. And she is writing a book
entitled, Using
Improv to Save the World.
Espace La Fontaine
3933 Avenue du Parc la
Fontaine, Montreal, QC H2L 0C7
In the heart of
beautiful Parc La Fontaine. 10 minutes walk from Sherbrooke or Mont-Royal
stations. Accessible by bus 14 or 11.
Parking at Centre culturel Calixa-Lavallée or on
Avenue du Parc-La Fontaine. Accessible
to those with reduced mobility.
