Polarity Thinking™ Learning Community Details!
2024 Polarity Thinking Learning Community Attendee Information
IF YOU ARE TRAVELING TO GREENSBORO WITH A LAPTOP, please bring your laptop to DAY 1 so you can explore the UNIPACT prototype. If you are not, no worries, you can partner with someone who is. (Tablets, Ipads and phone will not work well in this BETA pilot)
REGISTER FOR CONCURRENT SESSIONS
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IMPORTANT REMINDER:
Please register for your concurrent sessions if you have not yet done so. SPACE IS LIMITED so reserve your preferred seat ASAP. Click here or the RED button below to register for Concurrent Sessions #1-#4.
This must be completed separately from your conference registration.
Date: Wednesday, May 1 and Thursday, May 2, 2024
Time: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Location: 1 Leadership Place, Greensboro, NC 27410
Transportation: There will be a bus transferring attendees to and from the conference each day that leaves and returns to the O.Henry Hotel located at 624 Green Valley Rd. Greensboro, NC 27408.
Agenda: Check out the detailed list of presenters and discussion topics that will be taking place this year. The daily agenda can be found below.
Day 1: May 1, 2024
8:00-8:30 am Arrive & grab a morning refreshment.
8:30-9:30 am Constance Speight & Clemson Turregano
Welcome, logistics & agenda review
Getting Connected
9:30-10:30 am Plenary Session with Barry Johnson
Can a Polarity Lens be Useful in the Midst of Chronic Suffering? Yes.
10:30-10:45 am BREAK and move to concurrent sessions
10:45-11:45 am Concurrent Session #1
1. elan Bailey: Creating Coherence in Change: Polarity Mapping as a Framework for Integrative Development
2. Ann V. Deaton: (Some of the) Key Polarities We Need to Leverage to Have Trauma-Responsive Organizations
3. Margaret Seidler: “Payne-ful” Business: Charleston’s Journey to Truth
11:45-12:45 pm LUNCH
12:45-1:15 pm Plenary Session with Polarity Partnerships
What’s New & Coming Soon
1:15-3:15 pm Plenary Session with Leslie DePol, Tamara Sicard, Tracy Tauber, Andre Keil & Clemson Turregano
Test Drive the UNIPACT Experience
3:15-3:30 pm BREAK and move to concurrent sessions
3:30-4:30 pm Concurrent Session #2
1. Wanda Savage-Moore: Polarities in JEDI
2. Paul Wyman: Polarities and Parts: A parts-work perspective on the Polarities within you
3. Michelle Choate: Feeling Tense? Polarity Management and Coaching for Emotional Intelligence
4:30-5:00 pm Andre Keil & Tamara Sicard
Close Day 1
Day 2: May 2, 2024
8:00-8:30 am Arrive & grab a morning refreshment.
8:30-9:00 am Andre Kiel & Tamara Sicard
Reflections from Day 1
9:00-10:30 am Plenary Session with Wanda Savage-Moore & Cliff Kayser
SOAR Experience
10:30-10:45 am BREAK and move to concurrent sessions
10:45-11:45 am Concurrent Session #3
1. Roemer Visser: Polarities as ways of being: Using Polarity Thinking to Crack the Code on Leadership
2. Nomali Perera: Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance in Times of Hyper Polarized Discourse
3. Christy Crabtree & Katie Watts: Partnership as a Polarity in motion
11:45-12:30 pm Plenary Session with Margaret Seidler
Presentation of the "And" Award
12:30-1:30 pm LUNCH and move to concurrent sessions
1:30-2:30 pm Concurrent Session #4
1. Bill Benet & Joe McMillan: The Polarities of Democracy Institute’s Global Alliance for Democracy
2. Sally Breyley Parker & Richard Thayer: How Leaders Can Use Polarity Thinking to Unleash the Power of
Organizational Transformation
3. Susan Perry: The Hide And Seek Polarity of Feedback for Leadership
2:30-2:45 pm BREAK
2:45 - 3:45 pm Plenary Session with Riet Portengen
Polarity Fun for Children
3:45-4:15 pm Constance Speight & Clemson Turregano
Conference Close