Christine Whitney Sanchez LLC - Strategic Collaboration

METHODS FOR STRATEGIC COLLABORATION^TM

October 3-7, 2010

Portable * Flexible * Scalable

Are you interested in learning how to engage groups of 5 to 10,000 in strategic conversations? Would you like to attend a training that will give you the foundational skills and knowledge you need to utilize four powerful methods that are being used around the world for breakthrough thinking, decision-making and collaborative action?

Strategic Collaboration - working together for a higher purpose

Appreciative Inquiry is a positive change method for discovering what is healthy and working well and then building on those successes. Rather than focus on what needs to be fixed, Appreciative Inquiry looks deeply into the root causes of success and generates possibilities and plans for bringing dreams to life. Beginning with person-to-person conversations that encourage storytelling and focus on what each person values and desires, the process then expands to larger and larger groups that collectively decide what they want to create together into the future. Appreciative Inquiry is an ideal planning and management tool because it catalyzes a cascade of conversations about what has been most successful, most meaningful and most alive.

Open Space Technology quickly enables diverse groups of people, as well as those who work together every day, to tap into the collective intelligence of the whole. The principles, practices and self-organizing process honor and leverage each person's passion while calling forth a corresponding commitment to take responsibility for action. In half-day to three-day Open Space gatherings, participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme of strategic importance. By the end of an Open Space Technology meeting, what was most important to the participants has been discussed and recorded, next steps have been identified and commitments for action have been made.

World Café gathers people at small tables to engage in conversations that matter. This easy to use method for fostering collaborative dialogue, particularly in large groups, keeps people moving, thinking outside the box and building on one another's ideas as the rotate from table to table. World Café is used to engage people, especially those who don't know one another, in authentic conversation to generate input, share knowledge and conduct in-depth exploration of key strategic challenges in a very short period of time.

Polarity Mapping is an elegant tool, developed by Barry Johnson, Ph.D., which leverages the best of apparent opposites resulting in win-win solutions. May challenges are not problems which can be solved with either/or solutions. Rather, they are dilemmas or polarities to be managed. Polarity mapping provides a complete picture of the interdependent opposing forces that often create gridlock. Working with the upsides of both poles, predictions can be made for the types of change that will result any strategy.

If you are interested in bringing Methods for Strategic Collaboration to your location, please contact Christine Whitney Sanchez.

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

Through experiential learning, gain a working knowledge of the principles, steps and practices of Appreciative Inquiry, World Café and Open Space Technology.
Practice Appreciate Interviews, small group learning and large group synthesis as part of the Discovery Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
Engage in a World Café as part of the Dream Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
Participate in an Open Space Technology meeting as part of Design Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
Practice Polarity Mappping as part of the Destiny Phase of Appreciative Inquiry.
Craft appreciative questions and provocative propositions in your own language and for your environment.
Design a large group project to take home.

PARTICIPANT TESTIMONIALS

"The high point for me in this workshop was the absolute invitation and safe space to be authentic in the process of learning and growing. It was an intimate embodiment of collective wisdom. The format of learning by doing, to teach methods through the methods allowed for an accelerated, seamless experience. What this workshop has prepared me for is the permission to go forth and experiment. In small, incremental ways I am already integrating Methods for Strategic Collaboration into upcoming workshops and conferences I am helping to shape."

Magda Peck, August 2007, University of Nebraska Medical Center

"Through relaxed pacing, personal space, safety in the group and Christine's authentic and spirit-filled facilitation I learned about the spirit of facilitation and the holding of ambiguity."

Anita Yap, February 2008, Singapore

"Christine has blended the methodologies in a way that makes sense to me. She shares her experience generously and I continue to "mine" the workshop guide I received for deeper learning. I was especially grateful to learn about how she's successfully scaled some of the methods for very large groups. There was something more I took away, too. Christine has designed a learning process that brings out not just the knowledge of the participants, but the wisdom and heart from which all transformation flows."

Mary Pierce, Flashpoint Consulting, December 2007, Phoenix, AZ

Thank you for the quality time & exchanges in Singapore, but mostly for the years of courage & dedication to becoming such an embodiment of who you are.

Michal Papegaaij, February 2008, Queensland, Australia

"This workshop has built my confidence as a facilitator and enabled me to incorporate particularly Appreciative Inquiry and Open Space Technology into a pilot test of an activity to mobilize sector wide collaboration in order to improve the national response to orphans and vulnerable children throughout sub-Saharan Africa."

Jane Begala, March 2007, Constella Futures, Washington D.C.

"My greatest learning did NOT come from where I expected it to. If you come to this workshop, be prepared to be surprised. Be prepared for a workshop that gives you MORE than what is advertised. Be prepared to learn as much from the students as you do from the teacher (which is perhaps the highest compliment that I could pay to the skill, wisdom, and vision of Christine Whitney Sanchez). Be prepared to stretch in ways that you did not even anticipate. Be prepared to see the world in whole new ways."

Mark W. Hanna, March 2007, Valley Coaching Collaborative, Chandler, AZ

"Thank you for showing me a different, more spiritual way of doing Open Space."

Andrew Ballance, March 2007, London, England

"The Provocative Proposition exercise met the various needs of the group, brought in something new and was fun. I got to play with others around the possibility of working towards an ?organizational consciousness' project."

Denise Wright, February 2008, Singapore

"I plan to use some Appreciative Inquiry in my next leadership workshop in Ireland, as a first step in bringing about a change to emphasize the positive in training of our leaders."

Participant from Ireland, October 2004

"I've learned and been mentored in methodologies that work - that affect my work with others in positive, active ways - that encourage me to be congruent with my values and beliefs."

Participant, May 2005, Chicago Training

"I'm excited about the "click" of several concrete AI projects to address challenges that I'd been mulling for some time."

Participant from Israel, 2004

"I discovered sound principles to be used as inner guidance throughout life and rediscovered importance of trusting that voice inside. The workshop gave me a framework for previously scattered projects in my head."

Participant, 2004 Paris Training

"I am anxious to extend this Open Space and World Cafe process to Girl Scouts and other venues/organizations. Each participant has walked away with a bit of understanding of ?how to hear the voices of the masses."

Participant, August 2005, Girl Scouts of the USA

"I wish to have many more opportunities to attend and participate in this kind of process, but also to be able to share it widely."

Participant from South Africa, 2004

FACULTY

Christine Whitney Sanchez consults internationally with organizations and communities to build the capacity for conscious leadership and strategic collaboration. She is an international pioneer in blending Appreciative Inquiry, World Café, Open Space Technology and Polarity Mapping to deepen communication through conversations that matter and to liberate self-organization so that people can strategically collaborate by taking responsibility for their passion.

Christine is well-known as a large-scale change leader. She has coordinated large initiatives to bring Methods for Strategic Collaboration to the Girl Scouts of the USA, Northrop Grumman, the United States Postal Service, Facilitators Network Singapore, and KaosPilots Business School in Denmark. She facilitated the largest Open Space Technology session in the USA and coordinated the largest World Cafe event in the world at the 2005 Girl Scout National Convention. In 2008, she facilitated the largest Appreciative Interview session in the world where 8,500 girls and adults were invited to use their voice, have conversations that matter and create the future for the Girl Scout Movement.

Her background in depth psychology and experience in cross-sector work has positioned Christine to inspire diverse groups of collaborators to resolve thorny issues and generate new opportunities to increase the triple bottom line of people, prosperity and the planet.

Christine holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Hawaii an a Master of Counseling degree from Arizona State University.

Christine developed the Methods for Strategic Collaboration Foundations Workshop in 2003 and has been honored to deliver it to participants in Paris, Chicago, Arizona, Guadalajara, Colorado and Singapore. Clients such as Arizona Diamondbacks Sales, American Red Cross, Motorola, City of Aspen, Colorado, La Liga de La Leche Laninamericano, The Nature Conservancy, Make-A-Wish Foundation, City of Tempe, Arizona, Mesa City Council and Girl Scout councils have worked with Christine to increase sales, do strategic planning and create learning environments using Methods for Strategic Collaboration.

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If you are interested in bringing Methods for Strategic Collaboration

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