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Video from the Art of Hosting Social Transformation in Egypt

simone — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:16:12 +0000

Check out this video from the Art of Hosting Social Transformation workshop that took place in Egypt in June 2011.

In January 2012 (11th-15th) we are co-hosting the second edition of the Art of Hosting Social Transformation in Egypt. Stay tuned, the invitation will be out soon.

Collaborative Entrepreneurship Workshop in Dublin

admin — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:10:46 +0000

A Weekend Workshop for Change Makers

In these challenging times how can we use collaborative forms of leadership, innovation, fundraising and community building to strengthen our entrepreneurial and change projects?

This workshop introduces:

The U-process, offering a set of principles and practices for collectively creating the future that wants to emerge; a breakthrough methodology for collaborative innovation and accessing deeper wisdom
How to best use social networking to create business possibilities and to stimulate inspired actions
Crowd Funding: Rethinking the way we finance our projects and initiatives, beyond bank loans, through collaborative efforts that make full use of the internet and new social media tools
Community Enterprise models that are more than just individuals pursuing their own interests
Green Entrepreneurship with a focus on upskilling the workforce for the growing opportunities within Ireland’s Green Economy

This workshop is highly interactive and features short presentations from leading practitioners. Our learning will grow out of everyone’s contributions and presence. We will
support each other as co-learners. We will learn by observation, through stories from experienced practitioners, through reflecting on our own experience and practice, using interactive processes to build a safe and inspiring learning environment. We invite you to a collective inquiry.

Spaces for Social Innovation

simone — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:58:57 +0000

Since 2006 we are actively supporting the Hub Brussels, Hub London, Hub World and other start-up Hubs in Europe and around the world as advisers, community builders, hosts, facilitators of co-creative meetings, strategists, co-founders and members.

The Hub is a social enterprise with the ambition to inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world. It is a global community of people from every profession, background and culture working at ‘new frontiers’ to tackle the world’s most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges.

The Hub believes that there is no absence of good ideas in the world. The problem is a crisis of access, scale, resources and impact. It felt vital to create places around the world for accessing space, resources, connections, knowledge, experience and investment. There are currently over 20 Hubs on 4 continents and 50 more in the making.

E-campaigning forum 2009

simone — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:27:40 +0000

March 2009

The E-campaigning forum is a global network of (and for) practitioners of campaigning / advocacy using a growing range of electronic / digital media, initiated by Fairsay. Together with Sophia Bustamante we facilitated this year’s 6th edition. Using open space and twitter we created a thriving peer learning environment for e-campaigners from around the world.

Key note speakers included Sam Graham-Felson, Chief Blogger and Director of Blog Outreach for the Obama Campaign, who gave us an insider view and illustrated what an important role story telling, creating opportunities for participation online and offline have played. From the open space sessions we learned that campaigning is also becoming more and more about community building and participation.

A network for muslim professionals

simone — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:33:14 +0000

October 2008

The Institute of Strategic Dialogue and the Salzburg Seminar asked us together with Reos Partners and Create2Connect to facilitate a conference to incubate a pan-European network for Muslim Young Professionals in Salzburg Germany. The four day gathering resulted in the succesful establisment of a new professional network called CEDAR and its sister network EMWI for European muslim women of influence.