Workshop - Creativity & Experimentation for Knowledge Mobilization
Friday, April 17, 2009 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre
1088 Burrard Street
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2R9
Canada
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Creativity & Experimentation for Knowledge Mobilization
Intensive Workshop - Boot Camp Style
Registration: $148.00
Student / Low Income:
enter discount code "student" for $40 reduction
(price includes breakfast, coffee/tea, lunch, and materials)
Speakers:
Rick Hansen
Rick Hansen Foundation
 
Panelists:
Sean Muir
Healthy Aboriginal Network
Steve Kaufmann
LingQ
Workshop Summary:
Making what we know ready for service and action is a complex process. We have an overwhelming quantity of data and information with
little meaning. Creating coherence and understanding is crucial.
It is one of the most important skills we need in our knowledge-based society.
This complexity requires strong and productive
relationships to share ideas, goals, resources, and
rewards – no single person, organization, or sector can do this alone.
This is an invitation to participate, as a pioneer in Knowledge
Mobilization practice, in the fourth of a series of ten workshops called "Knowledge
Mobilization Boot Camps" across Canada for 2009.
Boot Camp #4 focuses on a key source of innovation :
Creativity & Experimentation
in knowledge mobilization?
Creativity in moving what we know from experience and research into decision-making and value creation is crucial to the success and sustainability of our society. Our collective ability to solve problems and think beyond current boundaries is the foundation of our future.
Join us as:
We explore three topics:
- Examples of creativity & experimentation in KMb?
- Developing creativity & experimentation for innovation in KMb?
- Creating and maintaining innovative partnerships for KMb?
We produce three items:
- A synthesis of experience from participants.
- A set of recommendations to the Federal Granting Agencies and key Federal and Provincial Government Departments.
- An agenda of further work to share with the KMb community.
What will you get?
1) Access to ideas and methods to think and work more effectively with your knowledge.
2) Connections to people, projects, and opportunities.
3) An intensive learning environment that is supported by first-class facilitators,
4) Direct contact with decision-makers, managers, and thinkers in knowledge mobilization.
5) An opportunity to influence policies on effective use and access to
knowledge.
6) Great conversation and an opportunity to test skills with
colleagues and potential partners.
Who should attend?
Participants will be practitioners, academics and graduate researchers, policymakers from
health, education, business, and affiliated sectors and agencies
interested in improving the uptake and use of knowledge in their
professional environments. They will have some experience with
knowledge mobilization (management, transfer, exchange, dissemination,
diffusion) and are interested in focused, intensive activity that
builds a community of practice as well as moves an agenda forward that
builds value from effective and efficient knowledge mobilization
strategies.
What is a Boot Camp Workshop?
A "boot camp" is an intensive, interactive workshop where the knowledge, skills, experience, and intelligence of every participant are drawn together to produce a collective understanding.
Studies have shown that passive events where individuals just "consume" more data and information do not lead to the types of attitudes, norms, and behaviors necessary to support action from learning events.
We want to help people get "whipped into shape" and be able to return to their workplaces, ready to run, surrounded by an international community of people who have shared in this intensive learning?
About the Boot Camp Series:
We have three goals:
- Bring people together that have an interest in knowledge mobilization to build relationships and shared commitment.
- Engage
in purposeful activities that are grounded in the contexts and
capacities of work, community, and productive social interaction.
- Develop
recommendations and an emergent agenda for building the supports,
institutional adaptations, and cultural changes needed to move from
what we know to what we do.
During each "Boot Camp", up to 50 participants will engage around a theme –
such as leadership, human resources, education, health, governance,
security – and work at imagining the elements of systems that will
enable the creation of the greatest value from the use of what we
collectively know.
The Facilitator:
The facilitator for the series is Peter Levesque, PhD (c), Director of
Knowledge Mobilization Works. He will be joined by leaders in
knowledge mobilization from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom and Europe.
Peter is
a social entrepreneur focused on building the capacity of businesses,
governments, associations, educational institutions, health centres,
and civil society organizations to access, implement, utilize, and
evaluate the best knowledge and practice available - to improve the
quality of life of all populations, especially our most vulnerable.
Contact:
Please do not hesitate to contact us at: 613.841.0858 office,
613.552.2725 mobile or by email at pnlevesque@gmail.com.
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We accept Visa, Mastercard, and American Express.
For offline payments, please forward cheques to:
Knowledge Mobilization Works
1961 Caprihani Way
Ottawa, ON, K4A 4R6
This series of workshops has received support from the following sponsors. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor please contact Peter Levesque.
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