Curriculum
The International Institute on Collaboration provides the following coursework. All three courses are accessible to both members and non-members.
Reimagining
Collaboration
An interactive workshop that encourages creative exploration without constraints, enabling participants to envision boundless possibilities for their collaborations.
Time: 1.5 hours
Space: In person and /or virtual
Skill level: Beginning to Moderate
Welcome to the workshop—it's time to unleash your inner artist! Grab your crayons, colored pencils, construction paper, and let your imagination run wild. We'll kick things off by delving into a familiar and universally experienced unintentional collaboration: going out to eat. Together, we'll dissect this experience, step by step, and explore its nuances.
Afterward, we'll apply some guiding principles to celebrate humanity and draw inspiration from Priya Parker's "The Art of Gathering." Get ready to tap into your creativity as we embark on a journey of collective exploration. This hour-and-a-half workshop is your opportunity to savor life, enjoy each other's company, and express your authentic self. Let's make art, memories, and connections!
deconstructing Collaboration
A workshop focused on intentionally slowing down the collaborative process, gaining a deeper understanding of, and enhancing our overall relationship with collaboration.
Time: 2.5 hours
Space: In person and/or virtual
Skill level: Moderate
This workshop serves as a laboratory experience, providing a platform for meaningful conversations and practical exercises aimed at deliberately slowing down formal collaborative processes. The focus is on uncovering opportunities to lead and design more impactful and effective collaborations. By delving into lessons derived from a universally prevalent unintentional collaboration, participants gain insights applicable to intentional collaborations.
The exploration also cultivates awareness of the transformational leadership, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills essential for creating an environment that nurtures trust, agency, support, and transformative change beyond predefined expectations.
Learning Objectives:
Objective #1: To cultivate a more familiar and comfortable relationship with collaboration, aligning it with our daily experiences.
Objective #2: To slow down how we design and lead intentional collaborations in the workplace while highlighting ways build systems that allow focus on the collaboration.
Objective #3: To apply skills to important moments in our Intentional Collaboration.
the Life cycle
of
collaboration
The workshop series to train how we better design and lead more impactful and effective collaborations.
Time: 6-8 hours
Space: In person and/or virtual
Skill level: Moderate - High
The Life Cycle of Collaboration our collaboration framework. The course is a space where we learn the framework and become better at designing and leading intentional collaborations. In this workshop, we dive into why transformational leadership, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills are so important to this collaboration model. We will examine and practice using these skills to design, manage, and participate in more impactful collaborations. The life cycle begins when everything is possible and we empower idea holders. It ends when deliverables are finished in a clean, pretty package. Participants will finish this series curious and comfortable about their intentional collaborations while containing new insight and tools for how they show up as leaders in those collaborations.
Objectives:
Objective #1: Deconstruct and slow down collaborations.
Objective #2: Learn a collaboration model and use it to lead & design more impactful and effective collaborations.
Objective #3: Utilize and further build transformational leadership, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills in collaborations.
Materials: (Suggested. *In all public workshops)
Upcoming courses
Collaboration Cohorts
2024
2024 Collaboration Cohort
June - December
2025 Collaboration Cohort
January - May
Dates being released in June, 2024.
April 8, 2024
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Zoom
August
TBD
the Life cycle
of
collaboration
2024
June 4, 11, 18
9am - 11am
Virtual
(Open to public- Associated w/ Agile Strategy Lab.)
Registration link coming soon.
September 12
All Day - In person
Madison, WI
(Private - Associated w/ Center for Community Stewardship.)
2025
September 19
All Day - In person
Milwaukee WI
Location TBD
Sep/Oct/Nov
Sep 26 (9:00am - 11:00am CST)
Oct 17 (9:00pm - 11:00am CST)
Nov 7 (9:00am - 11:00am CST)
Virtual on Zoom
To be announced
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