Upcoming Storycatching Events

THE LISTENING WELL - THE ART AND PRACTICE OF CIRCLE AND STORYCATCHING
With Christina Baldwin
October 21 - 24, 2010

Leadership includes the skills to elicit and respond effectively to the stories of those around us. Story provides the foundation for how we organize ourselves to get life's business done. In an increasingly complex world - where texting and email are often our primary means of communication - the practice of sitting down together and putting ourselves intentionally into a narrative context is now an essential skill.

• Circle is the practice of creating space where every voice is heard, and is the study of listening as much as it is the practice of speaking.
• Story offers us a way to hear what's really being said, and a means to recognize and appreciate the essence of identity.
  

Woven together, circle and story facilitate a deep shift in how we come together in groups to hear each other, especially in times of change and transition.

Please join Christina and a circle of colleagues from Ontario - Sylvia Cheuy, Holly Greenwood, Sharon Faulds and Chery Lyon - for a long weekend of practice and skill-building in the art of circle and story. For more information on the content of the workshop and the folks who are co-facilitating it, please download an event flyer.

REQUIRED READING: The Circle Way, A Leader in Every Chair by Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea (Berrett-Koehler); and Storycatcher, Making Sense of our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story by Christina Baldwin (New World Library)

DATES: October 21-24, 2010

LOCATION: Geneva Park Leadership Training and Conference Center (http://www.ymcaofsimcoemuskoka.ca/geneva_park/), located 90 minutes from Toronto in Orillia, Ontario. Built on a peninsula on Lake Couchiching, The Conference Center encompasses over 150 acres of pristine natural peninsula including a beautiful shoreline, marshland, and woods  with 4 walking trails.

COST: Tuition is $990 CAD. This fee includes tuition, accommodation and meals.

REGISTRATION: Please contact Holly Greenwood at hollygreenwood@sympatico.ca.

 

 

To delve more deeply into story and Storycatching as a movement, see the website created for the book Storycatcher at www.storycatcher.net.