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From Engagement to Empowerment
FROM ENGAGEMENT TO EMPOWERMENT Citizens as Co-creators of Community Services New forms of community initiative are emerging as people take charge of social services once expected of government. What...
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FROM ENGAGEMENT TO EMPOWERMENT | DwD Berlin
Citizens as Co-creators of Community Services The Citizen Engagement to Empowerment workshop was held in Berlin, Saturday Nov 24 4:00 – 7:00 as the inaugural event at the new co-working hub...
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2012 Retreat: Envisioning 2013
A dedicated group of DwD members engaged in a year-end retreat and participatory planning session Saturday, December 15. Facilitated as an Appreciative Inquiry by Greg, Peter and Patricia, we explored...
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Sticky: Healing Wicked Problems in Health
Can rethinking challenges together break through our most compelling health design problems? February’s DwD held an open session for health and design professionals from across sectors in the...
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SmartTalk : Engagement for the PanAm Games
How might we deeply connect the PanAm Games to our communities to ensure social innovation and economic impact? Pam Purves led the June DwD workshop to produce guidance and insight for the upcoming...
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SOAR Workshop: Thriving First Nations
Our Futures Depend on Thriving First Nations How might Canadians help create durable social change for first nations in the coming decade for education, employment, housing, justice and health equity,...
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Michael Jones: Re-generating the Soul of the City
Placemaking Toronto with Michael Jones August’s DwD was led by Michael Jones with an exploration of placemaking in Toronto. Ideas from his latest book, The Soul of Place: Reimagining Leadership through...
View ArticleLeading Between the Lines
How might we as citizens inspire responsive governance in the next term of Toronto’s city leadership and beyond? As citizens of Toronto we are responsible for the governments we elect to represent us....
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Working Families Finding Community Solutions
We know it takes a village – but how does that work? Working families finding community solutions The issues facing working parents are most often posed at either the individual level (“How can I...
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Action Methods and Dramatic Expression: Finding your Role in Community...
November 2014 DwD hosted over 25 participants. After introductions, Stephen Sillett cleared the space and everyone got on their feet and we positioned ourselves on a simple Spectrogram, an highly...
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Improvising Breakthroughs in Difficult Conversations
How can we engage in difficult conversations in a way that is productive, satisfying, and even FUN? How can we open ourselves to learn something new about the other person’s perspective? What is the...
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The Spiral Comes Full Circle: How Nation-to-Nation Relations with First Nations Can Lead to Economies that Work for All of Us What would it be like for our human economy to be in harmony with the...
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The Possibility of Creating Community
What’s the potential for Design with Dialogue as a true Community of Inquiry? How could we all co-create this together this year? The first DwD of 2016 was convened by Peter Jones (dialogue) and...
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Networks of Influence | DwD 03.09.16
How we can ground our work concretely, by considering multiple stakeholders that may influence project outcomes? How do we get a handle on who, or what, influences the changes that occur in situations?...
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Sustainable Design for Flourishing Fashion | DwD 04.13.16
How do we build trust in a complex multi-stakeholder relationship where the product is based on price? Apparel matters. We wear clothes throughout our life, yet little thought is given to modern...
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Envisioning the Future of Toronto’s Public Lands
Can we ecologize Toronto’s green lands and watersheds? Can we enhance access and inclusion of cultural uses of our parks, common places and spaces? How might we recover, restore, reimagine or rewild...
View ArticleFinding & Building Peace – What’s Possible? | DwD 01.11.17
Design with Dialogue starts each new year with proposals for the upcoming sessions, and we aim for both intentional impacts and resonant emergence. That is, rather than planning a series of programs,...
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Michael Jones: Re-generating the Soul of the City
Placemaking Toronto with Michael Jones August’s DwD was led by Michael Jones with an exploration of placemaking in Toronto. Ideas from his latest book, The Soul of Place: Reimagining Leadership through...
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Designing for Play – How to Play your Work
In the March DwD session with Farzad Sedghipour, we explored the importance of finding play in our work through a semi-structured facilitated workshop. Roughly 20 members of Toronto’s innovation...
View ArticleA Canadian People’s Foreign Policy: An Agora Dialogue
What do Canadian citizens believe to be a socially and culturally responsible foreign policy? How should Canada conduct herself realistically in the complex future of international relations? What...
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