[Ailist] Imagine Chicago invites you to join us in Transforming Community imagination

[Bliss Browne]

Imagine Chicago is pleased to announce some special training
opportunities this spring starting in March.

1. I will be offering a series of 3 day masterclasses this spring 
entitled Transforming Community Imagination; a brochure and full
description of which is attached.

March 12-14   Frameworks for Inspiring Community Engagement 	    
Bliss Browne
March 19-21  Building on Community Strengths: AI and ABCD in Dialogue 
Bliss Browne & Jody Kretzmann
April 27-29    Building on Community Strengths: AI and ABCD in Dialogue
 Bliss Browne & Jody Kretzmann
May 12-14     Transforming Imagination about Community                 
       Bliss Browne & Andries Botha

       These highly interactive capacity building courses are devoted
to the theory, skills, mindsets and tools to activate imagination and
transform communities.  It is a great pleasure to be able to teach them
with 2 incomparable leaders in the field.  Jody Kretzmann is the pioneer
of Asset Based Community Development. We have been friends for 30 years
but are teaming up to teach together for the first time since our
approaches are so complementary. It's an amazing opportunity for anyone
interested in an immersion course in strength-based community
development. In May, I am devoting attention to imagination itself,
teaming up with Andries Botha, one of South Africa's leading artists and
social innovators and a 30 year teacher of creativity. 

As some of you know, Imagine Chicago is about to launch a comprehensive
new website which will be a treasure chest of freely downloadable
materials. I have spent two months working full time on producing them
as a Valentine's present to the world. It;s been a much more massive
undertaking than I envisaged. In the process I have rediscovered
thousands of pages of curriculum materials, and AI protocols and agendas
which I  developed for use in community, youth and school applications .
I would love for them to be useful to others. I am therefore also
launching this spring a series of one day hands-on skill building
workshops in which participants will learn to understand, use and apply 
Imagine Chicago’s curriculum frameworks and tools, and the design
principles behind them. Each workshop will focus on a particular set of
applications.  Cost includes training materials with permission to adapt
them for use in other settings.  Each relates directly to major Imagine
Chicago proven program initiative. 

		            One Day Skill Building Workshops   Spring
2009

March 2	 Listening to the Future: Engaging the Next Generation
in Appreciative Inquiry    Bliss Browne
March 16	The Art of the Question 				
                                Bliss Browne
March 27	Creative Activities for Community Engagement		
                                Bliss Browne
May 4	Strengthening School Community Partnerships		        
                        Bliss Browne
May 5	Empowering Citizen Leadership			                
                Bliss Browne
May 6	Renewing the Heart of Teaching			                
                Bliss Browne
	
Substantial early bird discounts for all courses apply only until
February 28.  Space will be limited to 15 participants. So if you know
you are interested, I encourage you to register early!!
Online registration will be available on the brand new Imagine Chicago
website (www.imaginechicago.org) when it is launched later this week,
hopefully by February 18. Feel free to send me an email before that if
you want to jump the gun :)

Warm regards,
Bliss (Browne)
President, Imagine Chicago
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