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Ecological Thinking for Radical Transformation, Biomimicry for Creative Innovation, May 9
May 9, 2014 @ 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Ecological Thinking for Radical Transformation, Biomimicry for Creative Innovation
When: Friday, May 9, 2014, 8:30am – 5:00pm
Where: BGI Pioneer Square, 220 Second Ave South 4th Floor, 4th Floor Learning Studio, Seattle
What: Take this opportunity to step outside of the constraints of the conventional world and spend one day exploring and working with other passionate people who are ready to transform. You will return with new optimism as well as actionable tools to start releasing and leveraging your natural potential, and that of your organization. Join as Denise DeLuca facilitates the third of the Inspired by Nature workshops series hosted by the Organization Systems Renewal (OSR) Graduate Program at BGI’s Pioneer Square campus.
This workshop will help you:
- Recognize the constraints of our conventional thinking
- Reveal and leverage your natural potential
- Gain new perspectives, learn new behaviors, and practice new tools
- Envision a resilient, adaptable, and innovative organization, inspired by Nature
- Choreograph long-term transformation while enhancing short-term performance
- Curate a culture of effective creative collaboration and personal well-being
Current efforts to achieve sustainability are nowhere near the speed, scope, and scale needed. Achieving sustainability requires that we and step back into the positive role we are meant to play in the ecosystem and fully re-align ourselves with Nature’s cycles. Living in alignment with Nature requires a radical transformation from the practices, processes, principles, and paradigms that exist in our conventional world. It requires curiosity, imagination, co-creativity, and embracing paradoxes. Thankfully, Nature can teach us – help us remember — how to do that.
Who: Denise K. DeLuca comes from a background in civil engineering and environmental consulting. Her progressive pragmatism led her to the Biomimicry Institute where she was the founding Outreach Director. Denise DeLuca is now Director and Co-Founder of BCI: Biomimicry for Creative Innovation, an emerging network that shares nature’s principles with businesses and organizations to achieve radical transformation. Denise is also an adjunct faculty with the online Sustainable Design Master’s program at Minneapolis College of Art & Design, and a biomemetic consultant for Swedish Biomimetics 3000.
How Much: Fee for the full-day workshop: $149 | $99 for current BGI students
How: Register here.
