11:55am to 1:00pm Eastern Time
So many great minds working in community development are talking about the need to change, the urgency to transform services and operations in ways that not only fit our chaotic environment but influence its future as well. We tend to be rather good at seeing what should change and why, however, life becomes much more difficult when trying to figure out the how.
Upside Down Thinking is both a mindset and a tool that we can use to challenge the things that are so true for us that we don’t even question them anymore. It is a cognitive-creative methodology and is about more than crafting inquiry; it goes further to pose new realities or potential realities that run contrary to how we think and how we see our own identities within the context of our work.
Join Tamarack Thought Leaders Mark Holmgren and Elayne Greeley on January 22nd as they take a closer look at how what we create can stop us from creating, how what we think is good sometimes actually has negative impacts, and how we can become more innovative in our work by using purposefully ambitious thinking.
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Speakers
Mark Holmgren’s consulting practice has delivered social housing, strategic plans, new programs and services, innovations, evaluations, and research and analysis for a wide variety of organizations and departments including governments, human service agencies, funders, arts and culture groups, health organizations, educational institutions, and faith communities.
In early 2014, Mark was recognized by Tamarack Institute as one its national thought leaders and appointed to the Mayor of Edmonton’s Task Force on Eliminating Poverty.
Currently he is the CEO of Bissell Centre, a position he has held since the spring of 2011.
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Possibility aficionado, big picture thinker, collaborative team player, unabashed optimist and lover of natural history, that's Elayne Greeley in a nut shell along with all that is exciting and messy. By day Elayne has the privilege of working with a grand group of career practitioners and their community agencies in a partnership called CCEPP in St. John's, Newfoundland (www.ccepp.ca). She arrived at this work from the cultural sector and inserts as much creativity as she is allowed to by hosting groups differently and driving curiosity and learning within the sector.
