Gualala Arts: 50 Years ... 50 more

Here's the flyer.  I am quite excited to make this contribution.  Several Knowledge Workers from the network will be joining the facilitation team. 

Gualala Arts is excited to announce that we are holding a two-day event that will celebrate Gualala Arts' first 50 years and help shape its destiny for the next 50.

To help with this process, Gualala Arts is planning this two-day celebration and visionary opportunity, Tuesday and Wednesday, October 19 and 20, 2010.

Gail Taylor, an international organization consultant who lives in Gualala, will facilitate the event. Gail assists groups with the processes and tools needed for thinking, working and bringing common goals to life in ways that elicit and enact the imagination and creative abilities of the community and its members. More information at her website, tomorrowmakers.org/gail-taylor/.

To begin the celebration of Gualala Art's upcoming 50th anniversary next year, participants will reveal the design process and tools that brought so many people together to develop this unique arts center. What will the next 50 years for Gualala Arts look like for our community? What are the big dreams that will set us forth on a new phase of maturity and well being?

Our two days together will be highly interactive and engaging ... a combination of fun, learning, and hard work. These two days will reveal a new way of working together. While 50 years is our horizon, the next 5 years is our focus.

We are hoping that all of Gualala Arts' Interest Groups, our sponsors and our community partners will be represented. If you are interested in participating, or have questions, please contact either Michele Marshall (GA Board of Directors) or David "Sus" Susalla (GA Executive Director).

Space is limited to 100 people so please reserve your space ASAP. You are welcome to join both or either day.

Synergizer

Gail will be co-facilitating this four-day event in mid-September with Matt, and Scott Spann. The intention of this happening is to have a truly interactive event where we can really get down to work, co-creating a path forward that weaves together a wide range of perspectives about the world we aspire to, how to get there and what we can do collectively to synergize and produce momentum that is greater than the sum of our respective organizational efforts.

Sixty five visonaries, strategists, and modelers have accepted this challenge to generate the momentum for conceiving and achieving the transition to a sustainable, fulfiling and just global future, and launch an ongoing collective effort. 

Matt and I have designed what we call a PatchWorks game based on work from Stewart Kauffman's book about self-organizing systems, At Home in The Universe, and our own exploration of how to further this idea as a way to solve many of today's most pressing problems. This event will further test the validity of this concept. 

Circle of Blue "Waves and Memes" Design Workshop

4/20 - 4/21: Tomorrow Makers and The Value Web designed and facilitated a two-day workshop for the CoB ecosystem at 1360 Mission in San Francisco. This two day session focused on issues related to a critical 5 year period, the organizational model to move through this period with, and developing the narrative to describe and enlist the help of others. Participants came with individual expertise in water, technology, science, data, reporting, storytelling, and collaborative facilitation. Todd wrote up an account of the event here: Waves and Memes

Field Guide for Evolutionary Leaders

Gail and Todd have submitted their chapter on Wayfinding to the group of authors writing other chapters. Our intent is not to have a book with 12 to 15 chapters, but rather to use the chapters as a scaffolding for weaving a larger context and flow of thought and inspiration. 

Circle of Blue

We have been working with CoB, an extaordinary platform for environmental change, on it's long term strategic development. 

Circle of Blue, in short, is a resilient, evolving template, purposefully constructed as the 21st century news and communications center that is capable of both understanding and leading the global responses to immense challenges, tracking them and elevating the solutions.  Circle of Blue does this by producing dramatic, compelling evidence of the results and the solutions. Circle of Blue is the only communications organization that integrates front-line journalism, design, science, ideation and connected leadership.