Great Lakes Exchanges
Connect with peers exploring and advancing collaborative change and innovation in Perrysburg, Ohio. Join professionals and students from all fields; practitioners, leaders, educators, and scholars passionate about collaboration in new, creative, and impactful ways.
Network and share your products and services. This event is for those with NO experience, those with LOTS of experience, and everyone in-between. Both the Friday design session and Saturday collaborative community event are welcoming spaces filled with laughter, contemplations, design principles, flip charts, sticky notes, shadow consulting, emerging technologies, food, beverage... and more.
Check out our past events here.
We focus on leveraging the power of 100+ collaborative change approaches to transform organizations and communities as they tackle 21st Century challenges. We draw from a rich mix of foundational methods, Collaborative Arts approaches, and blended engagements. The body of methods and techniques is growing exponentially. Join this inclusive space for connecting with the peers in your community and the collaborative change community at large. We will use the methods, as we learn the methods in order to do better work in our counties and the world, knowing we are not alone.
Promote and expand your professional opportunities
Expand your network and sphere of influence
Share and see best practices
Hear from thought leaders around the world
Identify and find collaborative projects
Add to your experience and work portfolio
Build your change toolkit with templates, designs, methods, techniques, activities
Stay on the leading-edge with curated resources
Be a mentor or find a mentor
Develop collaborative change and innovation capabilities in "real time"
Experience collaborative change with professionals from around the corner and around the world. For more than fifty years, the fathers and mothers of this work, people like Kurt Lewin, Ron Lippitt, Kathie Dannemiller, and other thought-leaders have come together on a Friday evening to design a welcoming experience for a broader gathering on Saturday:
Fri. - DESIGN NIGHT [ 6pm-9pm ]
Come together for an intimate, friendly and fun design experience.
Bring a dish or dessert to share and your favorite beverage.
Experience 'Learning by Doing' Collaborative Design
The Friday evening intensive design experience is filled with design principles, laughs, note cards, food, drink and community. This evening is comprised of a smaller more intimate group of people [typically up to 20] interested in learning and contributing to the Saturday Agenda. If you want to learn about Collaborative Design - this evening is for you.
If you cannot join us in person, video conferencing will be available via QiQo Chat [more details to come].
Sat. - The Exchange [ 9am-3pm ]
Connect & network with local professionals and regional leaders & scholars
Share the latest & best in Collaborative Change
Join us for engaging conversations, presentations and group activities
Our purpose is to use the methods as we learn the methods in a community of practice - leaving with more than we came in with... giving back more than we realized. Come be with other like minded people committed to the power of collective wisdom and action. Whether you are a beginner or advanced user of collaborative change approaches, this is for you. We often pair up an advanced user with a beginner to co-facilitate an activity - transferring competencies and building mentoring relationships.
Sat. - Hybrid Session at 1pm ET
TO JOIN US in Perrysburg, Ohio - please register below.
Event Details
FRIDAY
Design work with food & beverages starts at 6pm to 9pm with informal conversations after.
This is a free event, all are welcome. Bring a dish & favorite beverage to share; 20-capacity limit.
Welcome and Introductions
Review Design Process
What is the purpose?
Who needs to be involved?
What conversations need to take place?
Identify Co-facilitators
Room set-up and handouts
Wrap up/ Check-out
*Directions will be emailed to Design-participants who register.
SATURDAY
MARKETPLACE [Coffee & Networking] starts at 9am.* Sessions start at 10am - 3pm
This is a free event, all are welcome. $10 for optional lunch if desired, some participants bring their own lunch, or buy their own lunch nearby; 75-capacity limit
Professional Opportunities Marketplace: Publishing, Training & Consulting
Welcome and Review of Design Night
Opening Grounding Activity
Best Practices Tools & Cases
Networking Lunch
Feature Hybrid Session
Resource & Evidence Library
*bring your own, or other's books/ flyers/ articles/ for sale items/ brochures/ RFPs/ postings ... to the Marketplace as you see fit!
Friday Event Location Information:
Directions will be emailed to design-participants after you register.
Saturday Event Location Information:
BGSU @ LEVIS COMMONS Perrysburg, Ohio 43551at the interchange of the midwest where Cleveland-Chicago [I-80/90] intersects with Detroit-Cincinnati [I-75].
Close, easy to find, & free parking.