This prototype event is the third ‘Ideas That Matter’ gathering in our Virtual Toronto Summer Institute series. It is a mash up of the creativity and energy of what TSI Alumni will know as “the Speak Easy” (based on ‘speed dating’) and the “Learning Marketplace” (based on the Art of Hosting practice of Open Space, conceptualized by Harrison Owen).
Our adaptation will feature three short presentations (7-10 minutes) followed by concurrent breakout discussion groups. Additionally, each presenter will announce virtual followup learning Marketplace sessions which invest a two hour block for a deeper dive into each subject. We hope you will choose to join…
IS Underway! Respect for the pandemic has determined that we were not able to gather face-to-face in Toronto in summer 2020. We could have said ‘so be it’. But the Institute (TSI) has always been on the edge of new practices, experiments, ideas. Thus, we have been working to invent the Virtual Toronto Summer Institute (TSI) 2020.
Special Announcement: The Virtual Toronto Summer Institute is happening now through 2021. Click to visit the VTSI hub to learn more!
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Tom Kohler and Susan Earle tell the remarkable story of Waddie Welcome and the people who surrounded him to make their whole community stronger. It is a life lesson in community building from people who became masterful by doing it.
It is a treasure story with amazing photos.
Our late friend and colleague Shafik Asante was an amazing organizer in Philadelphia and beyond. Read his remarkable reflections.
Shafik Asante’s book will challenge you to broaden the definition of inclusion and to look at the issues of oppression and liberation in a fresh new way. The articles are short and punchy. Shafik speaks from the point of view of a community organizer, a human rights leader, and as a parent of two sons, one of whom has been labeled by the system.
