October 6–9, 2005
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The Sustainable Food Lab (coming soon) Meeting Goals: To
initiate a community that will play a leadership role in developing, promoting
and applying cutting-edge dialogue practices to critical complex challenges
facing global society.
Participants: 35-40 individuals who
are united by their interest and work in profound change of global scale. Participants
are diverse in terms of the issues they work with and geography. They
include:
- issue owners: people working to address a specific issue such as
climate change, trade, water, corruption
- dialogue promoters: people with donors and inter-governmental and
other organizations who are supporting deep and global change
- process experts: researchers, consultants and practitioners of deep
change interventions
Click to see the names and bios of participants, as well as the support
team and sponsors.
Sponsoring Organizations: The Generative Dialogue Project
(GDP) is sponsored by Synergos Institute (www.synergos.org),
in partnership with GAN-Net (www.gan-net.net ),
Generon Consulting (www.generonconsulting.com),
the Society for Organizational Learning (www.solonline.org)
and the UNDP Democratic Dialogue Project (www.democraticdialoguenetwork.org). The
meeting is also sponsored by the Third Millennium Foundation (www.seedsoftolerance.org).
Background: The GDP was initiated in 2004 in the belief
that we need to build new knowledge and global capacity to effectively
address critical global issues. The Project has undertaken research to
assess the current state of the art of deep and large-scale change processes.
The GDP launch meeting will initiate a multi-year series of network development
and action research activities aimed at bringing “generative dialogic
change processes” into
worldwide use. It will bring together leaders identified through the
research with the diverse global perspectives, skills and resources to achieve
this vision.
Three meetings are planned in 2006–2007 to follow this one. The
next one is tentatively set for February with a focus upon dialogue and change
strategies with regards to conflict prevention and war situations. We
envision associated action research projects with community members to develop
new knowledge about change strategies and address some specific global change
issues.
Meeting Agenda Outline:
- Thursday, October 6 (evening): community dinner
- Friday, October 7: The day will feature two case studies to facilitate
participants getting to know one another and explore new ways of addressing
change and dialogue with regards to critical global issues.
- Issue 1: Transformation of the global food system
to one that is sustainable. The case study will be the Sustainable
Food Lab whose purpose is to accelerate the movement globally
to sustainably-produced food. See: http://www.glifood.org/
- Issue 2: To be confirmed, but the intention
is to focus upon an aspect of climate change.
- Saturday, October 8: The day will begin by opening up the event to
explore other issues people are working on, and the change strategies for
them. It will then move into more explicit community formation activities
to define how the community will develop and the activities it will undertake.
We will post a more detailed meeting agenda shortly.
Logistics:
Our sponsor for this meeting and the meeting location
is the International Center for Tolerance Education, an Initiative of the Third
Millennium Foundation.
The meeting address is:
25 Washington Street, 4th floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel. 718-237-6262 ext. 101
Fax. 718-237-6264
www.seedsoftolerance.org
The hotel location is:
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
333 Adams Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel. 718-246-7000
http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/NYCBK
We have reserved a block of rooms from October
6 to October 9, 2005. We will make your room reservations for you.
The nearest airport is LaGuardia, 15-40 minutes
by cab depending on traffic. Kennedy is 45 minutes to an hour by cab. You
can also fly into the Newark, New Jersey airport, just over the river from
New York. Visit the hotel's website to
get information on airports, ground transportation and area attractions.
The dress code is business casual. This means nice pants for men with a collared
shirt or sweater. Women wear pants or casual skirts and a nice shirt, blouse,
or sweater. Please no suits. |
