Daring to Create Together
What the Needed New Can Be
Healthcare is in crisis.
Most of us know the intractable challenges. Cut services. Demanded productivity. Decreased accessibility. Runaway cost. Exhausted leaders. Yet, many of us also have high hopes for healthier healthcare. We have beginnings of irrepressible dreams for healthcare systems that thrive. For a system committed to wellness. For simplicity that doesn’t deny the complexity, yet responds well to it.
Crisis is an opportunity for change. Real change calls for a new story and practice of leadership. From all levels of people that want to help. Healthcare needs courageous, imaginative people now with skills to co-create and to live simultaneously in both the current challenged systems and the emerging systems of the future. It means learning new skills and developing new networks of colleagues that cross organizational, professional and generational boundaries.
Collaborating for healthier healthcare now.
This event is for people who feel it is actually possible to create healthier healthcare. And know that it must happen more systemically. For people who want to see and do leadership differently for the future of healthcare. For people hungry for a new conversation. That feel a responsibility for imagining and contributing what hasn’t been imagined before. For people who know that the way to take on big stuff is to turn to each other. Muck it up. Get curious. Stay focused.
Welcome individuals and teams. All of you — doctors, nurses, administrators, senior executives, insurance leaders, community health advocates, practitioners in public health, complementary and alternative medicine practitioners, dentists, academics, policy makers, pharmacists, primary care associations, consumers.
How we’ll meet.
Our format for creating the new is called The Art of Hosting. It is a participative approach for leading, convening, and engaging. Big enough to help address big questions like we have in healthcare. Now practiced world wide, it is a pattern of: 1) co-learning, 2) strengthening relationships, and 3) getting to work. It is methods for meeting. Maps for pointing the way. Shared practice for creating action. For seeing together what can’t be seen alone in healthcare. For creating together what can’t be created alone. No, it is not presentations. Together we’ll think, engage, and dare to create plans.
Included in this training is invitation to a year-long community of practice with healthcare professionals and fellow participants, as well as two personal or team follow-up coaching sessions to support sustained learning and change in your leadership practice.
Hosting Team:
Kathy Jourdain; Shape Shift Strategies; Halifax, Nova Scotia
Steve Ryman; Itineris Coaching and Consulting; LaGrande, Oregon
Tenneson Woolf; The Berkana Institute; Lindon, Utah (tennesonwoolf.com)
Marc Parnes; Our Optimal Health; Columbus, Ohio
Location and Accommodations:
The Wasatch Retreat and Conference Center is relaxing and quiet. Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, it is ten minutes from the SLC airport. WCCR is eco-friendly, technology enabled, and perfect for holding a deep inquiry like ours.
Cost:
- $1,850 (tuition, meals, materials, shared accommodations)
- $1,700 (Early Bird, by December 15, 2012)
- $1,500 (Non-profit; Per person for teams)
Creative tuition conversations: Tenneson Woolf (tenneson@berkana.org; 801 376 2213)
