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Recent Presentations, Courses, and Workshops

2008 Offering of the Park Systems Leadership Course at Debert Hospitality Centre.

Co-ordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) and Complexity with Barnett Pearce, Craig Horangic and Liz Clark. Kansas City.
Complexity, Community and Ecological Practice with Fred Steier, Christine Ho and Katrina Rogers. Kansas City.

Facilitation of week-long online conversation about doctoral research:
McDonald, Jacquelin (2007) The role of online discussion forums in supporting learning in higher education. Unpublished Thesis, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, Australasian Digital Theses.
Table hosting in World Café session on “Leadership for Health Care Change Through Public Dialogue” jointly sponsored by Fielding Graduate University and Royal Roads University; Victoria B.C.
Leadership and Knowledge Management “Are on-the-ground leaders in complex environments using models that have not yet found their way into our standard toolkits for curriculum design, mentoring and other forms of leadership development?” Canada School, Ottawa.
World Café Research Gathering: an inaugural meeting of researchers, social entrepreneurs, and World Café pioneers to explore emerging opportunities for the development of World Café theory, research, and practice, Anaheim CA. This was not a presentation; it was a memorable collaborative event.
Invisible Excellence: the results of a policy study for a public sector group:
Diversity for the Unconverted: A presentation about benefits of diversity in complex environments as part of a panel on Transformative Learning and Social Justice. Santa Barbara CA.
Communities of Practice: public sector client in Duncan, B.C.
Community of Practice options for Dialogue and Deliberation: Santa Barbara CA.

Knowledge repositories and knowedge sharing: for a client in Victoria, B.C.
Scholar-Practitioners as change agents: An interactive panel on practice
Fielding Graduate University: Baltimore, Maryland
Leading and learning across boundaries
Fielding Graduate University: Baltimore, Maryland
Panel Chair/Organizer: Contextual Lenses for Ways of Knowing
Presenter: Making Sense of the Unpredictable
Society for Social Studies of Science Meeting: Montreal
(Read more on page 6 the Institute for Social Innovation’s Winter 2007 newsletter.)
2007 Offering of the Park Systems Leadership Course
William Watson Lodge
Striving for Sustainability—An Experience in Simplicity and Complexity
OUR Ecovillage (Read more)
Facilitated conversation with Major Pete Kilner, about his communities of practice-related dissertation work. Read more.
Centre for Security Science: Ottawa Canada
Presented findings of a study: How Participants in Canada’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) Research and Technology Initiative (CRTI) Understand their Work in a Network of Communities to members of the Centre for Security Science and other guests from the federal knowledge management network and from academia.
Introduction to Communities of Practice for Public Engagement Professionals (PowerPoint slides)

2006 Offering of the Park Systems Leadership Course
Cowichan Lake Education Centre, British Columbia
Selkirk College and KAST: Knowledge Management workshop
CPsquare: An Exploration of Complex, Knowledge-rich Environments
Maple Leaf Foods: Exploring potential for communities of practice
British Columbia Ministry of Forests: Leadership in complex, knowledge-rich environments
Fielding Graduate University: Living at the Edge &mdash Organizational Change Inspired by Nature (Washington DC)
Royal Roads University: Communities of Practice (4-credit graduate course)

2005 Offering of the Park Systems Leadership course
Cowichan Lake Education Centre, British Columbia
Lakehead University: Communities of practice and nature-based recreation.
CGAs, CMAs and Financial Mgmt Institute: Leadership in times of uncertainty
AACE E-learning conference - DC: Genetic diversity as inspiration for instructional design
CGA Association: Leadership in a knowledge economy
Royal Roads University: Communities of Practice (4-credit graduate course)
Royal Roads University: Leadership and Culture (2-credit graduate course)

Provincial Government Premier’s office: communities of practice for enhancing effectiveness
Communities of Practice Think Tanks (by invitation): Portland, Long Beach WA; Silicon Valley
Royal Roads University: Communities of Practice (4-credit graduate course)
Royal Roads University: Learner-led Symposium (2-credit graduate course)
Royal Roads University: Leadership and Culture (2-credit graduate course)

Premier’s Round Table on E-Learning: facilitator, post-secondary sector (Summary by the Premier’s Technology Council)
Environment Canada: Knowledge management for environmental management
Conference Board Knowledge Strategy Council: Knowledge management in education
GeoTec Global Conference: GIS and new generations of knowledge management: Is there a fit?
FORREX International Conference: Closing Presentation: Is it time to move from information management to knowledge management? (overview of presentations)
Royal Roads University: Communities of Practice (4-credit graduate course)
Royal Roads University: Leadership and Culture (2-credit graduate course)

Royal Roads University: Knowledge management for First Nations communities
British Columbia Government: Valuing and facilitating knowledge transfer in government
Parks Canada IM/KM Conference: A federal park case study in knowledge management
Vancouver KM Community of Practice: An overview of the Royal Roads KM program
National Law Librarians' Conference: Your library in an organizational KM initiative, with Dana McFarland.
Project Management Institute: Keynote presenter: Come west young man: The rich harvest of project management & knowledge management
5th World Congress on Intellectual Capital: A business lens on business intelligence.