<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Patricia Haines <<a href="mailto:levelgreen2010@gmail.com">levelgreen2010@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">October 17, 2011 12:18:45 PM EDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Sustainability in Tompkins County <<a href="mailto:sustainable_tompkins-l@list.cornell.edu">sustainable_tompkins-l@list.cornell.edu</a>>, hsc_l <<a href="mailto:HSC_L@cornell.edu">HSC_L@cornell.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Hilary Lambert <<a href="mailto:steward@cayugalake.org">steward@cayugalake.org</a>>, Debaura Dahl <<a href="mailto:landofdawes@gmail.com">landofdawes@gmail.com</a>>, george adams <<a href="mailto:earthaca@gmail.com">earthaca@gmail.com</a>>, George Adams <<a href="mailto:ghadams@gmail.com">ghadams@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[sustainable_tompkins-l] Nov 5 Collaboration Workshop: Creating a Sustainable Future Together</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"Sustainability in Tompkins County" <<a href="mailto:sustainable_tompkins-l@list.cornell.edu">sustainable_tompkins-l@list.cornell.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Free and open to everyone: </div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">WE ARE ALL CONNECTED, NOW LET'S CREATE THE FUTURE TOGETHER - a reflection/action workshop</div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> </div>The Center for Environmental Sustainability (CES) and Lifelong invite you to spend a day with leaders from United Way, Groundswell, CES and Compassionate Communication exploring the nature of effective collaboration and action planning for working together toward shared goals:</div> <div> </div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">9:30 - 4:00 pm, Saturday November 5</div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Lifelong Learning Center, 119 West Court Street, Ithaca</div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center">Facilitator: Wally Woods, organizational development consultant, CES co-founder</div> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> </div> <div>Collaborative learning and action is a dynamic gateway for shifting consciousness and culture from competition to cooperation, a shift essential for creating a sustainable future. When approached through a systems perspective, it also enables us to access deeper levels of the knowledge, wisdom, creativity and courage required to meet the escalating threats of social, economic and environmental injustice and depravation.</div> <div> </div> <div>Following Woods' introduction to this natural systems approach, a panel of local leaders will share reflections on their organizations' efforts to build strong, just and sustainable communities through</div> <div>* co-designed projects (United Way), </div> <div>* a strong local food system (Groundswell), </div> <div>* sharing tangible as well as creative resources (CES), and </div> <div>* effective communications (Compassionate Communications).</div> <div> </div> <div>Working in small groups, participants will then examine the values that undergird their organizational missions, and identify common values-based goals. Moving from shared reflection to participatory action planning, they will then develop specific first steps for addressing concrete objectives through collaborative action; and present these visions to the group.</div> <div> </div> <div>Light lunch provided. All participants will receive a Bio-Regional Map, two subscriptions to YES Magazine, and applications for CES mini-grants for implementing workshop visions. </div> <div> </div> <div>Pre-registration requested by November 1st. For questions and registration, contact Wally Woods (607) 272-1312 or <a href="mailto:ces.ithaca@gmail.com">ces.ithaca@gmail.com</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>