Facilitating Collaborative Innovation
Collaborative Innovation Essentials
About This Opportunity
What it is: If you're ready to elevate your leadership and drive meaningful, collaborative change, Collaborative Innovation Essentials is the course for you. Join us to build the skills, confidence, and strategies you need to make a lasting impact. This is a dynamic and immersive course designed to equip you with the tools and strategies to lead transformative change. This intensive program delves deep into our proven Collaborative Innovation methodology, combining theoretical exploration with hands-on practice. You'll engage in real-time application, making tangible progress on your projects while honing your leadership skills.
Offered on-demand, this in-person course is perfect for ecosystems ready to dive deep and build capacity for impactful change. Whether your focus is local or global, Collaborative Innovation Essentials will empower you to achieve your goals.
Who Should Join
Leaders and facilitators who understand the basics of Collaborative Innovation and want to take concrete next steps. This is likely around process design and facilitation, or engaging members of the collaboration, but also addressing messy questions like: How the heck am I going to get these people to agree to do something meaningful together, and actually do it? And how do I deal with people in these groups when they are being just plain difficult?
What You’ll Gain
In this hands-on in-person course, you'll master core Collaborative Innovation methods that have driven significant changes in communities and supply chains worldwide.
Focused on your own initiative or a challenge you care about, you'll learn to:
Design and Lead Collaborations: Create and manage multi-stakeholder collaborations with genuine alignment, engagement, and momentum.
Confident Leadership: Navigate the uncertainties of leading complex changes across ideological and cultural boundaries.
Co-Design and Strategy: Foster shared ownership and effective system change strategies.
Navigate Diversity: Help groups move through confusion and polarization, fostering empathy and understanding among diverse stakeholders.
You will leave this course with enhanced skills in:
Establishing Powerful Collaborations: Set the conditions for effective teamwork and alignment around shared goals
Aligning Diverse Interests: Unite various perspectives to achieve a common objective
Mapping System Dynamics: Develop a shared understanding of complex systems
Fostering Empathy: Encourage stakeholders to appreciate the experiences and perspectives of all those affected by the work
Identifying Critical Shifts: Recognize and act on key changes necessary to achieve your goals
Prototyping and Test Ideas: Develop, test, and refine innovative solutions in the real world
Adopting Inclusive Approaches: Integrate diverse viewpoints for sustainable systems change
Leveraging Collaboration Patterns: Utilize common patterns in successful collaborations.
Scaling Impact: Expand the reach and effectiveness of your initiatives
Building a Learning Environment: Create a culture of continuous improvement and shared learning within your collaboration
Practical Applications
You will learn how to start building a systems change collaborative, including identifying and engaging the right stakeholders at the right times. You will explore strategies to enroll busy individuals to contribute their time and effort effectively, fostering divergence and agreement about meaningful action among diverse groups. The course will also cover techniques for communicating the value of collaboration to skeptics, balancing the need for immediate action with the importance of relationship-building and continuous learning, and managing counterproductive conflict and challenging group dynamics.
Your Trainers
Not assigned yet.
Join us to build the skills, confidence, and strategies you need to make a lasting impact.
Facilitating Collaborative Innovation
Collaborative Innovation Essentials
What You’ll Gain
In this hands-on in-person course, you'll master core Collaborative Innovation methods that have driven significant changes in communities and supply chains worldwide.
Focused on your own initiative or a challenge you care about, you'll learn to:
Design and Lead Collaborations: Create and manage multi-stakeholder collaborations with genuine alignment, engagement, and momentum.
Confident Leadership: Navigate the uncertainties of leading complex changes across ideological and cultural boundaries.
Co-Design and Strategy: Foster shared ownership and effective system change strategies.
Navigate Diversity: Help groups move through confusion and polarization, fostering empathy and understanding among diverse stakeholders.
You will leave this course with enhanced skills in:
Establishing Powerful Collaborations: Set the conditions for effective teamwork and alignment around shared goals
Aligning Diverse Interests: Unite various perspectives to achieve a common objective
Mapping System Dynamics: Develop a shared understanding of complex systems
Fostering Empathy: Encourage stakeholders to appreciate the experiences and perspectives of all those affected by the work
Identifying Critical Shifts: Recognize and act on key changes necessary to achieve your goals
Prototyping and Test Ideas: Develop, test, and refine innovative solutions in the real world
Adopting Inclusive Approaches: Integrate diverse viewpoints for sustainable systems change
Leveraging Collaboration Patterns: Utilize common patterns in successful collaborations.
Scaling Impact: Expand the reach and effectiveness of your initiatives
Building a Learning Environment: Create a culture of continuous improvement and shared learning within your collaboration
Practical Applications
You will learn how to start building a systems change collaborative, including identifying and engaging the right stakeholders at the right times. You will explore strategies to enroll busy individuals to contribute their time and effort effectively, fostering divergence and agreement about meaningful action among diverse groups. The course will also cover techniques for communicating the value of collaboration to skeptics, balancing the need for immediate action with the importance of relationship-building and continuous learning, and managing counterproductive conflict and challenging group dynamics.
Trainers
Not assigned yet.
Join us to build the skills, confidence, and strategies you need to make a lasting impact.
What Others Have Said About This Course
Jennifer Johnston
Program Manager Healthcare Workforce & Transition Projects, Highline College
“The Collaborative Innovation training has served us very well. We followed the process pretty closely and it really reenergized these educators and helped the group work together beautifully and thoughtfully. Speaking for myself, the training had a lasting impact on my thinking and facilitation. Hopefully, we’ll be able to attend another training in the future.”
Chris Ernst
Former Global Head, Leadership & Organization Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
“Given our role as catalysts in creating a world where all lives have equal value, the methods, approaches, and most importantly in-the-trenches experience of CoCreative are invaluable to our mission. Your fantastic facilitation and generosity of spirit left an incredibly positive mark with our colleagues and will make a real difference in our work over time.”
Refund & Cancellation Policy
We understand that sometimes changes in circumstances and availability mean you might no longer be able to attend a training session for which you've registered.
We're ready to work with you to resolve any conflicts, including transferring your registration to another member of your team.
If that's not possible the following cancellation and refund policy will apply to all training course registrations received on or after September 21, 2021.
Cancellations received in advance of 30 days before a workshop will receive a full refund.
Cancellations received less than 30 days but more than 10 days before a workshop will receive a refund of 60%.
Cancellations received less than 10 days before a workshop will not be refunded.
To inquire about transferring your registration or requesting a refund, please contact us.
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Welcoming Guest and Co-Host, Lucinda Garthwaite
Lucinda is the founder and Director of the nonprofit Institute for Liberatory Innovation. The ILI generates innovative solutions to create liberatory environments - where compassion leads to action, curiosity inspires connection, and accountability ensures sustained progress. Their work invites people to think and behave differently, and to align their day-to-day lives more closely with an increasingly thriving, just, and peaceful future.
Prior to founding the ILI in 2019, Lucinda worked in youth-serving organizations; and taught writing and social change at the University of New Hampshire and Goddard College, where she also co-directed the undergraduate program, and served as Academic Dean.
Lucinda holds a Doctorate in Leadership for Change from Fielding University, and is a Fellow of the Fielding Institute for Social Innovation. She also has Masters in Education from the University of New Hampshire, and an MFA in Creative writing from Goddard College. She’s the author of Bumbling Humans: Reflections on Liberatory Change (2023). She posts regularly in the ILI newsletter.
