Becoming a System Convener
Building a Community of Practice
Building Equity into Meetings
Producing and Assessing Value in Learning Communities.
Using Design Clinics to Mobilize Collective Wisdom
Elements of Healthy Partnerships
Building a Social Learning Event
Learning Together
Learning Together
"I find my creativity around effective solutions and system improvement expands when engaged in social learning. Travis guides the information and idea sharing such that I see people, situations, and events in new ways, allowing new solutions to emerge. And it's fun, too!"
D. Monique Stefens
BFET/Workforce Navigator
For accommodations, please contact Travis Tennessen at Travis.Tennessen@wwu.edu.
One week advance notice is appreciated.
Becoming a System Convener
Coming soon
Hoping to create new spaces for learning and relationship-building across units in your organization, and with other organizations? In this training, we’ll explore the concept of system convening, a form of leadership that breaks down traditional barriers within and between organizations, and begin envisioning how you could infuse elements of this leadership style into your work.
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Using Design Clinics to Mobilize Collective Wisdom
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Hoping to help yourself and your colleagues move forward effectively with workplace challenges, and learn more about each other’s work? In this training, we will discuss how design clinics - a 30-minute protocol for workshopping a design challenge--can help enhance your collaborative work.
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Build a Healthy Learning Event
Coming soon
How do you efficiently and effectively build a social learning event? In this training, we will discuss the important steps in creating a stand-alone social learning event, including how to manage the event information using Google Suite tools.
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Learning about Place through Treaties
Coming soon
How do you foster commitment to place through examining the colonial foundations of non-Native presence? In this training, we will explore how to develop place-based learning experiences that cultivate ethical relationships with the lands and its people while also being widely applicable across a range of familiarities, positions, experiences, and locations.
Putting Ideas into Action
Coming soon
Attending workshops and learning new ways of connecting, being and thinking about our work is energizing. Then, we return to our work brimming with excitement ready to implement all the things, but where do we start? How can we be supported when we’re trying something new? How do we set a goal that leads to a sustained effort and the outcomes we hope for? Join us to co-create a set of tools to put all your new ideas into an action plan with a community who’s ready to offer support and celebrate your wins.
Building a Community of Practice
Coming soon
Hoping to connect with others who share your passions and interests, and create new ways for you all to learn together? In this training, we’ll discuss the concept of a “community of practice” and explore ways that you can use this type of learning community to improve your work and build a stronger support network.
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Elements of Healthy Partnerships
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Hoping to build stronger learning partnerships within and beyond your organization? In this training, we will discuss elements of healthy, mutually enhancing organizational partnerships, and also review questions that new or emergent partners should ask each other to get things off to a promising start.
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Listening as a Strategic Practice
Coming soon
Where do we get stuck in our team meeting or in meetings with community partners and other stakeholders? Distractions abound, right? How do we turn toward connecting with intention and attention? In this workshop we’ll explore a Value-based listening approach with communication practices that support inclusion, inquiry and connection
Building Equity into Meetings
Coming soon
Hoping to structure your meetings so that everyone feels heard and shares the air more equitably? In this training, we’ll discuss how to include social learning techniques, which foster relationship-building and shared understanding among those with different perspectives and backgrounds, effectively in your meetings.
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Producing and Assessing Value in Learning Communities
Coming soon
How do you know whether the meetings you facilitate are valuable to the participants? In this training, we will discuss how you can use Wenger-Trayner and De Laat’s “Value-Creation Framework” to assess the impact of your work, produce more value for participants, and help participants articulate their own “value stories” that show the impact that you’re having.
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