The Strength it Takes: A Retreat for Women in Engineering
May 02, 2025
The Strength It Takes: A Retreat for Women in Engineering is a one-day gathering for women in engineering—past, present, and future—to reflect, connect, and recharge. Whether you’re a current engineer, a student, or have stepped away from the field, this retreat offers a space to explore shared experiences, gain clarity and validation, and find renewed inspiration to navigate your path in engineering.
The Art of Hosting is a powerful approach that harnesses group wisdom and self-organization. Rooted in the idea that people invest in what matters most, it uses dynamic conversations to empower participants to tackle their challenges. Let's explore--what grows when we reimagine our communities and organizations as spaces for human flourishing and belonging?
Join us for an inspiring and interactive event with Adam Kahane, renowned facilitator, best-selling author, and global expert in systemic transformation. This special presentation and workshop will introduce insights from his latest book, Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems, offering practical strategies for breaking through stuck systems and driving meaningful change.
Past Programs
Research Findings: Racism in the Quebec Community Sector
February 20, 2025
This talk explored key insights from Diversité D’abord, a research project on racism in Quebec’s non-profit sector, with co-authors Emily Yee Clare and Kira Page.
Anchoring Health Research in the Community-Based Participatory Research Experiences of People Living with a Disability
January 23, 2025
This talk will highlight Dr. Quilico's groundbreaking work on a peer-based physical activity program for individuals with traumatic brain injuries and his current research on technology-driven health interventions, including telehealth and robotic exoskeletons. Read More >>
Trapped by the screen: A dialectical approach to digital liberation
November 21, 2024
Explore the impacts of smartphone dependency on motivation, mental health, and community well-being. This seminar offers insights from the "Dopamine Reset Program" and strategies for building resilience against digital overuse. Join us for a dialogue on regaining balance in our digital lives. Read More >>
In a world striving for justice, effective Organizational Development (OD) is inherently an anti-oppressive practice, rooted in the vision of a future free from oppression.Read More >>
Explore how Communities of Practice (CoPs) serve as dynamic intersections of scientific reasoning and practical knowledge, where inductive methods reveal organic double-loop learning and create scaffolding for collaborative growth. Read More >>
Drawing on the arts and contemplative traditions, Social Presencing Theater brings to the surface a clearer sense of the relationships, hidden dynamics, and emerging possibilities inherent in a team, organization or larger system. Read More >>
We are in a world facing numerous systems transitions. From hierarchies to networks and sociocracies. From office-based to a global and mobile workforce. From a human resource era to a co-dependent AI/VR/robotics era. From patriarchy to equality-based systems. We are in the midst of major shifts and transitions...and then along came #COVID-19. Read More >>
Aspiring leaders today seek a value-based social and organizational framework which will better reflect fairness in relation to their time/contribution and integrity. This training begins this important conversation on how to promote and sustain value-based leadership in our society, communities and organizations. Read More >>
The grey zone of change is the space in-between systems – between the from and to of change. Systems may be worldviews, philosophies, organization transformations, methodologies or social systems. How do we lead and facilitate transformations in this context? Read More >>
This Human Interaction Learning Laboratory is a six-day (five night) residential program. Its unique experiential design consists of small and large group sessions whereby a semi-structured learning environment will assist you in developing your competencies ininterpersonal and group dynamics.Read More >>
Despite dramatic innovations in technology and the world of physical objects, our results in creating healthy, effective and flourishing human systems, — businesses, NGO’s/non-profits, government agencies, networks and ecosystems — have been highly inconsistent. People Powered Innovation Labs is a 2-day introduction for leaders of business and social innovation, designers, facilitators, technologists and... anyone who has an innovation challenge or opportunity that would benefit from the collective genius of the people in the system.Read More >>