Frameworks for Inspiring Change

Space limited to 15 participants. Register early!

Frameworks for Inspiring Change

Location: Chicago, IL (Further details will be sent with registration confirmation)

Date: Monday, October 5, 9 am- Wednesday, October 7, 2009 , 2 pm

Led by: Bliss W. Browne, Founder and President of Imagine Chicago imaginechicago.org

Would you like to expand engagement and hope in yourself, your organization or your community? Do you want to learn to ask better questions and establish practices that motivate constructive behavior shifts? Are you seeking better ways to align actions around a personal or collective goal?

Frameworks for Inspiring Change is an interactive workshop on dealing constructively with change at a personal, institutional and community level. In this hands-on, "train-the-trainer" workshop you will learn to use Appreciative Inquiry, Imagine Chicago’s frameworks for building community over 18 years of pioneering practice, and effective therapeutic models of individual change and identity in the work you do with individuals and organizations.

With much involuntary change underway, it is especially important for change agents to be able to help individuals,  organizations and commuinities re-conceptualize their identities based on new goals, and constructive choices.

You will learn and apply effective strategies and tools for:

* Creating reliably constructive partnerships across differences of gender, age and culture

* Strengthening questioning, listening and speaking skills

*Shifting (and helping others shift) from deficit-based to strength based mindsets and communications, using Appreciative Inquiry, Asset based community development and Positive Asset Search

* Understanding the impact of strength vs deficit based assessment of individuals and communities

* Empowering constructive choices

Imagine Chicago’s proven frameworks for inspiring constructive community engagement will be taught by Bliss Browne, President of Imagine Chicago, who pioneered them. They have inspired a global movement of social innovation on six continents. 

Come learn and practice creative ways to elicit vision and hope, build on strengths, and inspire constructive engagement and action.

Cost of $1000 per workshop includes training materials with permission to adapt them for use in other settings. Discount of 20% given for early bird registration by August 31, 2009. Special discounts also for intergenerational training teams.

 For further information please contact: Bliss Browne Ph: 1-773-275-2520 or bliss@imaginechicago.org