[All] FW: Upcoming Adam Kahane Lecture

[sdlachance]

Hi Susan,
Hi Susan,
	I am paying $25 & going with my neighbour. We think that it is a
bargain to have such a quality speaker here & accessible to us for his
question period after his book talk. 
	Sometimes alignment of ones cause with a high end public figure is a
growth strategy, etc.
	Sometimes it matters to be grateful that we have world class
thinkers come to our community as world class things get done from here. He
may be doing workshops with other groups while he is here. The public
lecture makes him more affordable to all.
My opinion,
Sandra Lachance

-----Original Message-----
From: all-bounces at gren.ca [mailto:all-bounces at gren.ca] On Behalf Of Gregory
C. Michalenko
Sent: January 19, 2010 3:32 PM
To: Susan Koswan; 'GREN'
Subject: Re: [All] FW: Upcoming Adam Kahane Lecture

I think it is extraordinary that an organization that is set up to promote
social innovation would charge $25 to attend a "public lecture" - and force
people to buy the author's book as part of the privilege to hear him.  I
called the "Social Innovation Generation", the promoters of the event, at
the University of Waterloo (a public institution that exists because we pay
for it through our taxes) to ask for an explanation of why they are staging
it in this fashion.  They were at least artful and complex in their
explanation but it simply came down to gouging the public.  I asked how much
Mr Kahane is charging for his lecture and they said they weren't at liberty
to disclose this.  I asked why they are forcing people to buy the book:  if
they were really interested in social innovation wouldn't they donate lots
of copies of his book to public libraries so that people everywhere could
borrow it and read it?  They replied that they are charging so much so that
they can eventually post it online.  I felt this was at least an innovative
approach to logic:  making you pay to buy the book so that you could read it
for free online!  Wowie zowie, now that's progress.  I don't find much
evidence that the esteemed and venerated Mr Kahane and author of "Power and
Love: a Theory and Practice of Social Change" loves me very much, but there
is plenty of suggestive evidence here that he's trying to apply a power
relationship to my pocketbook.  I think he should change the title to "Power
and Hypocrisy:  an Advanced Theory of Snake Oil".  Note that another of his
books contains in its title "An Open Way of Talking, Listening and Creating
New Realities."  When i called them, THEY were sure interested in doing the
talking, but none of the listening.  

Grr.  Grump. I wanna go, but no way I'm climbing into bed with these
earwigs.

Thanks Susan for being kind enough to spread the word when someone gives you
a request.  No one can be faulted for that.  You're a good soul.

Grumpy Greg  
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Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:50 PM
To: 'GREN'
Subject: [All] FW: Upcoming Adam Kahane Lecture

Hi Everyone,
I haven’t read or heard of Kahane, but was asked to forward this.
Susan K

Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation

Adam Kahane, author of Power & Love: A Theory & Practice of Social Change,
will deliver this year's Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation on Wednesday,
Jan 27 at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in
Waterloo. Kahane,once praised by South Africa's Nelson Mandela , is an
internationally acclaimed social innovator. He will give a public lecture
and launch his latest book on how to effectively deal with pressing problems
in society.

The Annual Lecture on Social Innovation highlights world-class thinkers with
new ideas on how to achieve significant, durable social change for pressing
and increasingly complex social problems. In this year's lecture, Kahane
will draw on his extensive experience with designing and leading complex
multi-stakeholder change processes to offer practical guidance for
effectively balancing power and love, two usually polarized drives.
Learn more


About Adam Kahane

Adam is a leading organizer, designer and facilitator of processes through
which business, government, and civil society leaders can work together to
address their toughest challenges. He has worked in more than fifty
countries, in every part of the world, with executives and politicians,
generals and guerillas, civil servants and trade unionists, community
activists and United Nations officials, clergy and artists.

Adam Kahane is a partner in Reos Partners, an international organisation
dedicated to supporting and building capacity for innovative collective
action in complex social systems. He is also an Associate Fellow of the
Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford’s
Saïd Business School.

Adam is the author of Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking,
Listening, and Creating New Realities (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler,
2004). Nelson Mandela said: “This breakthrough book addresses the central
challenge of our time: finding a way to work together to solve the problems
we have created.” Adam’s second book, Power and Love: A Theory and Practice
of Social Change, is forthcoming from Berrett-Koehler in December 2009.


The event, which begins at 7 p.m., is presented by Social Innovation
Generation at the University of Waterloo, Region of Waterloo, CIGI, Capacity
Waterloo Region and Musagetes.

Waterloo Lecture on Social Innovation featuring Adam Kahane
Date: January 27, 2010
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Location:  Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), 57 Erb St.
W., Waterloo, ON
Tickets: $25 (includes admission, a copy of 'Power & Love', reception with
Adam Kahane)
RSVP: Register online here or by emailing siglecture at uwaterloo.ca





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