This is the invitation for the upcoming Art of Hosting training happening in Toronto in May. (also my first inDesign project! Thanks to Pamela Rounis for design coaching!)

1. ART OF SOCIAL INNOVATION
MAY 7-9, 2014 | CSI SPADINA TORONTO
3-DAY INTENSIVE TRAINING : PARTICIPATORY LEADERSHIP IN TIMES OF CHANGE
Join us for this 3-day training
to explore how we can
• Create conditions for multiple perspectives
to work together toward sustained and wise
action
• Use methods and practices of collaborative
and participatory leadership to connect social
innovation efforts
• Use our collective intelligence to achieve
sustained strategic results that transform
systems, regions, organizations
Who should attend Art
of Social Innovation?
Changemakers, leaders, social innovators
who wish to take social innovation to scale.
Those who work with diverse voices and
need to invite real diversity into your work.
Those who are looking for new ways and
tools to work with collaboratives and
practice participatory leadership
Ontario is rich with social innovators and pioneers of new ways of doing things. Many of us are seeking new solutions to
problems that are becoming more complex. The complexity we face in the world now pushes us to ask new questions
about how we act, how we connect efforts, what our organizations do and how we respond. The training will explore:
• How can we thrive in complexity and shifting systems?
• How do we work effectively with relationships, difference, real diversity?
• What is the leadership needed now in working with complexity and chaos?
• How do we link transformative efforts and scale social innovation?
IMAGE CREDIT: RENAUD BERTRAND

2. WHAT WILL I GAIN?
Learn practical, participatory tools to design, convene, host and harvest
conversations — including: chaordic project planning, world cafe, open space
technology, pro-action cafe, large stakeholder design and delivery, harvesting for
action, deep democracy and more
• Learn how to work within shifting systems and thrive in complexity
• Immerse yourself and your team in a supportive and co-creative space
• Experience the connection between personal transformation and the capacity
to create change in the world
• Connect and learn with a community of leaders working to bring change into
diverse settings
Come ready for three full days of learning, conversation, and transformation with
new and old colleagues and friends. Bring your ideas & projects to this highly
experiential program.
The Art of Social Innovation uses Art of Hosting (AoH) social technology. The methods & theories, created by the AoH
community of practice, scale up leadership from the personal to the systemic using personal practice, dialogue, facilitation &
co-creation of innovation to address complex challenges.
Visit artofhosting.org to learn more about AoH and to join the global learning network of participatory leadership.
“We can’t impose our will on a system. We can listen to what the system
tells us, and discover how its properties and our values can work
together to bring forth something much better than could ever
be produced by our will alone.” — Donella Meadows
WHEN
Wed - Fri, May 7 - 9, 2014
WHERE
Centre for Social Innovation
215 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, ON
REGISTRATION
AoSIToronto.eventbrite.com
MORE INFORMATION
exhibit-change.com
artofhosting.org
COST
Prices includes tuition, material,
snacks & lunch daily
$650 - youth & students
$750 - social & public sector
$900 - private sector
15% off for groups of 3 (or more) from the
same organization
If you have a passion to attend but cannot
afford it, contact us:
jennifer.chan@exhibit-change.com
violettailkiw@me.com
IMAGE CREDIT: RENAUD BERTRAND

3. THE TEAM
Chris Corrigan is a global steward
of the Art of Hosting. For 20 years
he has worked with organizations
and communities in North America
and beyond to help address
complexity using dialogue and
participatory leadership processes. He blogs and collects
resources at chriscorrigan.com
Jennifer Chan is a designer,
facilitator and provocateur
practicing design-driven
community engagement in a
process of co-designing with
stakeholders. Jenn’s work is
actively working to create playful civic engagement
opportunities, designing social impact solutions in
education, and convening space for individuals to practice
design methodologies and engagement strategies.
exhibit-change.com
Rachel Caroline Derrah: A serial
collaborator, Rachel hosts projects
in Canada and Europe that invite
diverse perspectives into
conversations that matter. Based
in Halifax, her work with AoH tools
and practices has included large-scale civic gatherings to
design public spaces, participatory budgeting for
municipal funds, cross-sector unconferences,
PechaKucha nights, idea incubators, and interactive
public art installations. She is learning to open spaces
that invite us to bring our passions into the world.
thecolab.info
Sophia Horwitz: Community
process artists and social
entrepreneur, Sophia has
spearheaded transformation
projects in Latin America, Europe,
Turkey, Canada and Japan.
Through participatory processes, Sophia engaged multi-
stakeholder groups around complex issues ranging from
social innovation to neighbourhood placemaking and
sustainable development. A weaver of relationships,
Sophia builds trust between disparate parties, her
specialty lies in facilitation, strategic planning, and
cross-cultural communication.
thecolab.info
Violetta Ilkiw is a seasoned
facilitator, leading organization
change & participatory decision-
making process with communities
and organizations. For the past
14+ years she has also acted as
senior consultant to the Laidlaw
Foundation, bringing innovation and collaborative tools
into their work with young people. She experiments with
emergence, wide-scale social innovation & bringing deep
democracy into all settings. Violetta is currently diving
into a study of Deep Democracy pursuing a Masters in
Conflict Facilitation & Organizational Change.
Satsuko VanAntwerp is a writer,
connector and facilitator,
facinated by what shapes our
different views of the world. As
Manager at Social Innovation
Generation (SiG), Satsuko
supports social innovation lab practitioners and
government innovators tackling complex societal
problems. Satsuko holds an MBA in Social
Entrepreneurship and indulges her blogging urges via
thinkthrice.ca
PARTNERS
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete”
— Buckminster Fuller