Creative Dialogue Clinics

Inspiring Innovation Leadership through Creativity & Wisdom Work

The next Creative Dialogue Clinic will be held on Tuesday, May 28, 2013
11:30 am to 1:00 pm - 4-130 Weaver-Densford Hall

Audience: Open to the public
Where: Room 4-130 Weaver-Densford Hall, in the Healthy Communities Innovation Center
Registration: The clinics are free. Please RSVP to densford@umn.edu
Summer dates: June 25, July 16, 2013 - 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Katharine J Densford International Center for Nursing Leadership Creative Dialogue Clinics supports and inspires creativity through the application of creative strategies that support innovation leadership in education, practice, research, and project development. The clinic provides a time, place, and set of liberating structures and strategies for convening people to have creative conversations and receive consultation about innovative ideas, projects, challenging situations or issues.

“Creativity is the connecting and rearranging of knowledge –
in the minds of people who allow themselves to think flexibly,
to generate new, often surprising ideas that others judge to be useful.”
^{(Paul E. Plsek, 1997)}

The Creative Dialogue Clinics are facilitated by Dr. Daniel J Pesut, Professor of Nursing and Director of the Center for Nursing Leadership. Creative Dialogue Clinics will use Liberating Structures to facilitate group interaction, dialogue and discovery that supports innovative work. Liberating Structures (LS) are easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance relational coordination. They quickly foster lively participation in groups of any size and can replace more controlling or constraining approaches.

If you plan to attend please RSVP to densford@umn.edu