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Pre and Post Conference Sessions
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Energize with
On Ensemble
Returning by popular demand, this unique group blends musical styles from jazz to electronic with a variety of instruments including the japanese taiko drum. What emerges from this collaboration is extremely powerful and soothing at the same time.
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"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."
Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
Every year, attendees share how our Forum has sparked this experience, leading to the ability to make a real difference within their organizations. As with everything else, the fire of our inner spirit varies, and we invite you to gather experiences and connections that will fuel your spark for a long time to come. With your presence, our sparks provide all of us even more fire and fuel.
Join us in an extended weekend of transformation and growth that will provide returns throughout the year. Some of the highlights will include those listed below.
Regards...
2008 Forum Planning Team
PS - Our special room rate ($109) at the Hilton Woodland Hills has been extended through April 8th.
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Expand your skills of communication and learning to think critically so that you are able to recognize what is behind your thinking and the thinking of others, why they are saying what they are, and communicating in a way that is clear, powerful and compelling. Ariane David will show us how.
 Stories have been used throughout history to share ideas in a way that allows the listener to decide. Learn from Bob Dickman and Richard Maxwell how leaders can use stories to assist in transforming their organizations.
Building
upon existing literature and original case studies,
George Roth
will present an emerging theory for what makes enterprise transformation
successful and different from traditional organizational change
approaches. His presentation proposes and illustrates the five change
capabilities that firms have successfully used to transform themselves.
 Gipsie Ranney will explore how an organization's interactions with employees and with
its environment affects employee perceptions and how the quality of employment
relationships might be improved by attending to these aspects of organizational
life.
 Society we
would define as individuals plus the connections between individuals, i.e. society's
systems. Can an electorate take responsibility for the design of the systems
that characterize its society? In Scotland, this challenge is being
addressed under the banner of "creating a learning society". Gordon Hall will report on progress to date.
 Relationships
sculpt the brain's physical structure in ways that make it possible for us to
connect our space with someone else's. Elaine Johnson will explain how the brain,
incomplete at birth, develops by drawing on environment. Her talk will examine
the brain's plasticity, IQ, today's relational poverty, and the power of
meaning to transform understanding.
 Why do
transformations fail to gain sustained momentum? Ralph Wood will focus on the role of emotional acceptance - the
acceptance by an individual, at a gut or even spiritual level, that the
transformation's value proposition affords a better alternative for this
individual than the current state.
 Transformative
power begins inside by understanding and unifying the self. Scott Lennox will present an easily applied
step-by-step process of "taking an inventory" as a means of stress
management and personal growth, a necessary early step in building community.
 Grow from your space in2 ourspace as Sheldon Rovin facilitates our annual Saturday afternoon networking session in a way that will reduce our individual silos into a group acting together to create....more than the sum of its parts.
 NASA is building it first new vehicles (Ares I and Ares V) for human space exploration in nearly 40 years. In parallel, Steve Cook is leading an effort to develop a NASA culture in an established team environment where issues can be discussed, information is shared, and fun and teamwork are encouraged.
 All
businesses desire high and stable profitability. However, most performance improvement
initiatives achieve their desired result for only brief periods. Tom Johnson will explain why this unintended
consequence of improvement initiatives occurs...again and again.
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