SIIC 2009 Session

Igniting Creative Thinking

for New Global Visions

July 27-31, 5-Day Workshop

Designed for:

Visionary professionals, practitioners, and educators who lead and facilitate multicultural interactions in any size of organization; individuals wishing to grow, develop, and evolve in harmony with natural rhythms — co-creating systemic sustainability (economic, social, financial); individuals concerned about or overwhelmed by the current global events and uncertainties and who are seeking ways to weather this perfect storm.

Objectives:

Participants will have the opportunity to:

• Develop skills to identify a variety of mental models so that creating and realizing new compelling global visions across cultures is most effective

• Become familiar with traditional and contemporary developmental models to locate self and others

• Relate and integrate the three aspects of the triple bottom line (people, planet, profit)

• Define sustainovation and developing perceptual flexibility to reframe uncertainties for the benefit of collaborative strategic visioning and innovation across cultures

• Define commonalities and differences between individual and organizational visions

• Develop subtler sensitivity to discern and act upon synchronicities

• Define and develop evolutionary leadership skills

Learning Activities:

• A variety of highly creative, experiential, and multi-sensory activities to explore deeply ingrained desires and needs and to realize the interconnectedness of all events

• A variety of activities to experience the radical use of consciousness, to broaden perspectives of realities and location(s) of the self

• Simulations to experience paradigmatic shifts that spark creative thinking

• Creative activities to define and express authentic individual and collective global visions

• Some lectures

Faculty:
     

Dr. Kichiro Hayashi, a professor emeritus at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, has trained over 3000 corporate and government leaders from 80 countries in intercultural and comparative management and learning organization during the past 25 years. He taught for a total of 10 years at Indiana, UCLA, and McMaster, and he served as president of SIETAR Japan and of the Japan Society for Multicultural Relations. Kich received the Outstanding Senior Interculturalist Award in 1995 from SIETAR International. He has written ten books and received the Japanese Prime Minister’s Memorial Prize. For many years he was a member of the Japan Laughing Association. See http://www.geocities.com/kichirohayashi/

Dr. Regina Rowland, founder of Global Syntony™, aligns leadership and organizations with people, planet, and prosperity—improving organizational effectiveness and transcultural understanding via creative engagement. As a visual thought partner she develops visual models, visual thinking and facilitation methods and tools for interactive sustainovation processes. She teaches and develops curriculum at the Fielding Graduate University and at the California College of the Arts where she also develops leadership and faculty trainings. Regina was recently invited by the National Science Foundation to serve as one of 30 chosen researchers in building models of intercultural service systems.

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