Constructing Worlds - on language, learning and leadership
Copenhagen, August 20th - 23rd 2009
Organised by:
Taos Institute and MacMann Berg
The Constructing Worlds Conference is an international conference to be held in Copenhagen - Denmark, between August 20th and 23rd, 2009. It will be an innovative and co-creative event, with a starting point in social constructionist, systemic, and appreciative ideas and practices, as they have emerged across a variety of fields.
Inspiring speakers
We want to inspire, motivate and enable you to create better practices and theory through professional development, networking and through the most inspiring and innovative speakers and workshop facilitators.
Among many others you will meet:
Kenneth Gergen
Carsten Hornstrup
Sheila McNamee
Mary Gergen
Harlene Anderson
Bob Cottor
Sally St. George
Jane Magruder Watkins
Dan Wulff
This conference is a mix of presentations and active networking with focus on sharing, learning and innovation. With a mix of researchers and practitioners across different professional fields, participants are invited to be active co-creators of both content and process.
What is our passion?
We have a passion for systemic and constructionist theory, thoughts and practices, because it gives us a way of understanding and creating life-giving relationships in communities, schools, organisations and families. It is a way of understanding and appreciating the uniqueness of each system, and a way of working with social systems in a curious and appreciative way.
What are the ideas that give life to Constructing Worlds Conference?
We view the Constructing Worlds Conference as a mutual learning event with enormous potentials for the future. Systemic and constructionist ideas now move across domains of practice. New ideas and new change-oriented practices emerge in multiple venues. This conference will provide a major means of sharing these ideas and practices across borders – of schools of thought, of professional life and of nations. Our hope is not only for mutual illumination, but for fostering new collaborative relationships, and an unleashing of creative potentials. Ultimately we hope that our collective efforts will contribute to life-giving relationships in families, communities, schools, organizations, and more.
The Constructing Worlds conference also points towards an understanding of the way we co-create the worlds we experience through the relations we engage in. The more we can co-create meaningful and life giving relationships, the more we create possibilities for our futures.
The ideas urge us to meet people with respect and appreciation. To respect their morality, their values and their way of living. It calls us to be curious about how we can connect to these values and ways of living. It invites us to be both curious and challenging towards the ideas and practices that keep us from moving in desired directions. Constructing Worlds conference is our way of creating a generative and curios space.
The structure of the conference
The conference is organised with a mix of presentations, workshops and Open Space, to give you updated input and a possibility for sharing and learning.
The presentations will give you an opportunity to learn form the leading voices within each professional field – listening to their new ideas and best practices.
Open Space processes will give you the opportunity to actively engage in creating relationships across different professions - sharing and developing ideas and practices.
In the workshops you will meet skilled process facilitators who will create room for dialogue, sharing and generating knowledge
Location
Constructing Worlds Conference will be held at the new DGI-byen conference centre in Copenhagen, Denmark. DGI-byen is located right behind Copenhagen's Central Station, and is a dynamic and innovative meeting place. The interior design of the building is modern with colourful artwork on the walls, representing the dynamic urban look of Copenhagen.
Read more about DGI-byen here...
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You can read more about the conference under: speakers and workshops, program, sign-up for Constructing Worlds and collaborations.
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