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British ColumbiaSchool Superintendents Association

Frank Barrett adds jazz to Fridays closing session!Dr. Barrett will be at the piano to share lessons from jazz for the concluding hour of his presentationon April 27. The closing time for the forum is extended one hour to 4 p.m.

Forum update:

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How can we inspire change leadership at all levels of the BC school systemto achieve transformational learning and collaborative breakthroughs?

How can we create a high-involvement culture that supports innovationand learning?

This workshop in Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an opportunity to focus onways we can positively move forward in enhancing learning by involvingkey stakeholdersteachers, principals, administrators, trustees, parentsin designing collaborative strategies for whole-system transformation.

Appreciative Inquiry is a model of change leadership that will maximizelearning and innovation at all levels by creating forums for dialogue amongdiverse participants engaged in furthering the potential of the BC schoolsystem. AI involves attending to current successes and past strengths,listening for peak experiences, exceptional moments and intriguingpossibilities with the aim of discovering what is happening when the BCschool system is operating at its best. Beginning with the assumption thatevery human system already has features of health and wellbeing, AI isa deliberate, systematic search for those distinctive stories, metaphors,dreams, musings and wishes that embrace a spirit of vitality and potencywithin our school districts. It involves searching for the supporting factorsthat embolden and promote an enduring spiritthe central strengths andcompetencies that contribute to the exceptional potential and vitality ofthe entire system.

Warren Bennis recently reminded us that organizations must move beyondindividual empowerment and learn to nurture collaborative and relationalcompetence. This forum will examine models for facilitating collaborative,positive change in their own districts and schools. Participants will exploreways to nurture idea generation from teachers, principals, administratorsand trustees, and learn how to support broader participation within the BCschool system so that diverse voices are invested in implementing positivechange. The two-day workshop will involve short lectures, facilitateddialogue and case studies, and will focus on skill building that will enableparticipants to apply these models within their own systems.

Thursday, April 26Registration and hot breakfast, 7:158:15 a.m.Frank Barrettbegins at 8:30 a.m. and ends the day at 4:30 p.m.

There will be a mid-morning nutrition break and a 45-minutelunch break at noon (all meals provided).

Friday, April 27Hot breakfast 7:308:45 a.m.Frank Barrettwill start at 9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.

There will be a mid-morning nutrition break and a 45-minutelunch break (all meals provided). The forum closes at 4 p.m.

Location: Junior Ballroom, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre

Working as a CollaborativeLearning Community:System Transformationthrough Appreciative Inquiry

APPRECIATIVE INQUIRYis a strength-based, capacity-building approach totransforming humansystems toward a sharedimage of their most positivepotential by first discoveringthe very best in their sharedexperience. It is not aboutimplementing a change toget somewhere; it is aboutchanging... convening,conversing, and relating

with each other in order totap into the natural capacityfor cooperation and changethat is in every system.

Artful searchingdraws renewedattention to thestrengthsinherent in a relationship insuch a way that invitesmoreparticipants to cooperatewith each other tocreate new ways to pursuea positive, shared image

of a preferred futureitgenerates new possibilities.

APPRECIATIVE

INQUIRY

4-D CYCLE

DISCOVERYco-discoverstories of

existing strengths,best practices

DREAMco-imagine

what is all possiblein the future

DESTINYco-operatively

implement andsustain positive

change

DESIGNco-create

statements ofidealized

organization

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F RUM

SPRING2007Frank Barrett

Frank Barrett is a professor of management in the Graduate School of Business

& Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and

is a faculty member in the School of Human and Organizational Development

at Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara. He is a graduate of the University

of Notre Dame, where he received his BA in government and international

relations and his MA in English, and Case Western Reserve University in Ohio,

where he earned his PhD in organizational behaviour. He has taught at Case

Western and Penn State, as well as universities in the Netherlands and Belgium.

Dr. Barrett has consulted to various organizations, including Boeing, The U. S.

Navy, Ford Motor Company, Bell South, Glaxo Wellcome, General Electric,

British Petroleum, Nokia, Johnson & Johnson, PricewaterhouseCoopers, BBC,

The Council of Great Lakes Governors, and Omni Hotels. He has written and

lectured widely on social constructionism, appreciative inquiry, organizational

change, organizational learning, and jazz improvisation. He co-authored, with

Ronald Fry, Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Cooperative

Capacity, and is the co-editor of Appreciative Inquiry and OrganizationalTransformation: Reports from the Field. His award-winning papers include

Generative Metaphor Intervention: A New Approach to Intergroup Conflict,

which he co-wrote with David Cooperrider, and Planning on Spontaneity:

Lessons from Jazz for a Democratic Theory of Change, which he co-authored with

Mary Jo Hatch; both publications received top honours from the Organizational

Development Division of the National Academy of Management.

An active jazz pianist, Dr. Barrett leads his own trios and quartets, and has

traveled extensively in the United States, England and Mexico with the Tommy

Dorsey Orchestra.

Appreciative Inquiry:A Positive Approach to

Building Cooperative Capacityby Frank J. Barrett, Ronald E. Fry(2005) Taos Institute Publications

ISBN-10: 0-7880-2163-Xhttp://www.taosinstitute.net/publishing/detailAIPABCC.html

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