Minnesota
Facilitators Network
MFN FREE Open Meeting,
August 9, 2012
5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
This meeting is free to all, but please register to reserve your place and a meal. Register here.
Creatively Exploring Mindset:
Facilitation's Killer App?
Dennis Stauffer, Presenter
This year’s theme for MFN is Exploring the World of Facilitation: Collaboration, Creativity and Complexity. With this theme in mind, Dennis Stauffer will present:
Creatively
Exploring Mindset:
Facilitation’s Killer App?
A
growing body of research into the impact and malleability of a person’s
mindset informs fields as diverse as education, psychology, creativity,
innovation and leadership. We are now coming to understand what a profound
impact our mindset has on how we perceive, interpret, imagine and impact
the world around us.
Dennis
will speak on how treating mindset as an analytical lens provides powerful
insights and options for facilitators seeking to “move” the people in
the room to a new place, a new understanding, a new level of effectiveness
and performance, as individuals, as teams and as organizations.
Understanding
mindset also provides us with a powerful vocabulary for describing the
impact that facilitation has.
Participants
will leave this session with:
·
Powerful
ways of thinking about exactly what you are doing as a facilitator and how
it impacts those you facilitate.
·
Strategies
for achieving rapid, sometimes immediate shifts in the way people think,
behave and interact.
·
Greater
self-awareness of what influences and empowers you as well as others.
·
The
ability to articulate your work as a facilitator in new and compelling
ways.
Dennis
Stauffer's Biography
Dennis Stauffer delights in helping folks
discover powerful new insights, insights they can apply in their personal
as well as professional lives. He is a recognized thought leader on the
behaviors that drive innovation…behaviors we all need to engage in to
successfully navigate the future.
Dennis is an Emmy award-winning journalist, and author of Thinking Clockwise, A Field Guide for the Innovative Leader, which
received the Fresh Voices Award.
He is trained in the facilitation of Creative Problem Solving.
And he is the co-developer of the Innovator
MindsetTM Self-Evaluation Technology, a uniquely powerful
tool that evaluates the personal and organizational mindsets that enhance
or undermine innovation. Innovator Mindset was recently included in a
grant from the National Science Foundation.
Based in Minneapolis, Dennis delivers keynotes, seminars and other
interventions for clients throughout the U.S. and abroad.