Vancouver skyline. Photo courtesy of Thomas Quine
This month the City of Vancouver is in the spotlight as it prepares to host the 2010 Olympics. In honour of the occasion, I offer a Vancouver success story about urban renewal and revitalisation:
The Creative City and Sustainability: Leadership Lessons for Sustainable Initiatives
Vancouver, host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, [...]
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Posted in Events, Home, arts-based training on Oct 28th, 2009
Composition 10 by Kandinsky
Saturday Nov 28, 2009
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Venue: Unity Church, 5840 Oak Street, Vancouver
Cost: $79.00 each day (includes art supplies, tea, coffee and cookies )
Please bring a lunch.
Registration: Please contact Bob Gault at ergault@telus.net or call 604.941.2770
Facilitated by Linda Naiman
Explore the process of painting as a means of slowing down, becoming present to the [...]
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Posted in Artful Leadership, Events, Home on Sep 10th, 2009
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming HealthCare Leaders’ conference, October 20, in Vancouver BC.
Here’s my topic:
Some of the greatest difficulties leaders face today revolve around the need to instill passion, mobilize teams toward achieving a common vision, and motivate change in employees. Organizations led by creative leaders have a higher success rate in innovation, employee [...]
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(These are some of the questions we are helping clients answer.)
How do we continue growing your business amidst an economic downturn?
How can you work more effectively with constraints?
Do your leaders have a set of principles and methodologies for developing creativity in your organization?
How do you keep re-inventing to stay relevant to your shareholders?
Does your [...]
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How long is now?
A visit last month to The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco inspired the theme for this newsletter. The term was coined by Brian Eno, who noticed when he first moved to New York City, here and now meant this room and this five minutes, as opposed to the larger here and [...]
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Posted in Events, Home on Mar 8th, 2009
Ongoing Events
Feed your body, mind and spirit
Vancouver Farmers Market
Vancouver Farmers Markets (otherwise known as Your Local Farmers Market Society) is about people who love fresh food at festive gatherings. With the initial goal in 1995 to create the fun and value of weekly Farmers Markets in urban settings, the Society and the Markets have become [...]
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Posted in BOOKS WORTH READING, Events on Nov 10th, 2008
You’re welcome to attend a celebration of recently published arts-based education books along with a theatre piece developed by UBC theatre education students! Three arts-based education books by members of our Faculty of Education have recently been published:
Creative Expression, Creative Education by Robert Kelly (U. Calgary) and Carl Leggo (UBC)
Being with A/r/tography by Stephanie Springgay (Penn [...]
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I write a coaching column about workplace challenges at Essence of Life www.eolife.org. I invite you to send in your questions or weigh in with your own insights here.
Q. Help! I recently got promoted to a management position at work. How do I find the balance between leading and being in control, without being a control [...]
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