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Internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and consultant Margaret Wheatley will be featured at two events to be held at Loyola University New Orleans. On Thursday evening, January 18, 2007 (7 - 9 pm), Dr. Wheatley will speak on how communities and organizations can thrive in chaotic times by embracing chaos as an essential element of creativity and by forming innovative connections with others. In her award-winning book, Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, she draws from a variety of natural world examples to show how communities and organizations can learn from nature how to best organize their energies to accomplish their dreams. The evening will also feature examples of New Orleans area communities and organizations that have been able to thrive in the post-Katrina world because of their creative connections and reinvention of what they do. The New Orleans community speakers are Keith Liederman of Kingsley House, Latoya Cantrell of the Broadmoor Neighborhood Association, and Darlene Wolnik, of the Crescent City Farmers Market and Marketumbrella.org. Thursday evening's event is free and open to the public and will be held in Nunemaker Auditorium in the Monroe Building on Loyola's main campus: 6363 St. Charles Avenue. Parking is available on campus.
On Friday morning, January 19, 2007 (8:30 am - noon), Margaret Wheatley will co-facilitate a World Café process with Nancy Margulies, its co-founder. Imagine a conference filled with people who see possibilities in problems, are eager for new ideas, and stand ready to pitch in to get things done. The World Café starts with the assumption that there is no power greater than a community discovering what it cares about and joining resources in new ways to create the future. In this World Café small business owners, non-profit staff, artists, church members, neighborhood representatives, educators, and any interested individuals will join together. Through our substantive conversations with one another, we will review what we have learned in these past 15 months about what is working to help businesses, churches, non-profits and neighborhoods get back on their feet and we will create new possibilities for solutions and vitality through our creative connections. The World Café is free and open to all. Space, however, is limited so we ask that participants register (here) . The event will be held in the St. Charles Room of the Loyola University Danna Center (Student Union) at the center of the main campus, 6363 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA 70118. Campus Map |
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