The Edge: Creative and Transformative Approaches to Community Engagement … that actually deliver results

Workshop with Dr Wendy Sarkissian

Friday, 11 June 2010, Adelaide, South Australia

Synopsis

This workshop offers many opportunities for participants to explore “the Edge” in community engagement: that place where issues and problems are complex and intractable, where ordinary run-of-the-mill engagement processes do not seem to work well and where emotions are running high. Maybe there has been a history of neglect in this community or with this group. Or perhaps there have been many instances of betrayals and broken promises?

Or maybe everyone is bored and cynical and there is little energy of any sort for community engagement processes on all sides. The Edge workshop builds on work in Wendy Sarkissian’s new Earthscan book (with Dianna Hurford): Creative Community Planning: Transformative Engagement Methods for Working at the Edge (2010).

See www.creativecommunityplanning.com as well as her 2009 book, Kitchen Table Sustainability: Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability.

The workshop introduces new theoretical approaches (such as Otto Scharmer’s Theory U) and explains how they could be used in community engagement.

Three case studies from Wendy’s social planning practice are presented and discussed.

A hands-on workshop session in small groups allows participants to use the ideas generated in the workshop in a case study context (the redesign of Rundle Mall in Adelaide).

Registrations

Already 45 people have registered — so please be quick.

We have to limit registrations to 50!

Details are in this brochure. Just click on the link below:

The Edge Flyer, Program and Form

Workshop materials

NOTE: THESE ARE THE FINAL MATERIALS UPDATED WEDNESDAY NIGHT 10 PM!

Workshop materials will be posted on this website to save printing costs and impacts. Please feel free to download PowerPoints and print them for the workshop. They will not be distributed in the workshop.

Here are workshop materials as of Tuesday 6 June 2010.

PowerPoint Handouts

Our Bonnyrigg Dream for Adelaide_FINAL_2010

Reconnecting Ceremony Adelaide FINALhandout

The Edge Adelaide_FINAL_handout

Otto Scharmers Theory U model for Adelaide_FINAL

The Edge introduction_Adelaide_final

Lunchtime Exercise

Reading and other materials

FloydJ_HaywardP_Comm_dev_for_eco_sust_080131

The Edge Workshop program draft

Rundle Mall case study Adelaide workshop_handout