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Practice Notes - February 2009

Welcome to Practice Notes in 2009. We’re back and ready for action. We’ll be freshening up your thinking this year like previous years and look forward to seeing you at our free Tea and Toast, open to all, learning sessions.

March Tea and Toast - Wicked Problems and Dialogue Mapping

Wicked problems are hard to define, often have multiple causes and are complex. They won’t be solved by traditional problem solving approaches. Examples include climate change, drug taking and inter-generational poverty.

So, how can they be tamed, if not solved? One useful technique is dialogue mapping. This session will examine what wicked problems are and then demonstrate how dialogue mapping works

Date: Friday 13th March 2009

Time: 8am - 9am

Venue: Boardroom, Level 5, iPayroll House (next to Boulcott Bistro) 93 Boulcott Street

Speakers: Hilary Bryan and Jesse Pirini

email: jesse@trainingpractice.co.nz if you'd like to come. All welcome and no charge.

Fresh Thinking

We read a lot during our ongoing programme research, here are some tidbits we've come across that might just freshen up your day.

A daily dose of the positive

In the present economic climate we could all do with this. Check out http://pos-psych.com/about and subscribe to Positive Psychology News Daily.

Positive Psychology is linked with emotional intelligence and studies what makes us mentally well, rather than mentally ill. Its three main concerns are positive emotions, positive individual traits, and positive institutions.

A new New Zealand

Staying on the optimistic side of things, check out another organisation, AnewNZ.

http://www.anewnz.org.nz/

If you’re into fresh thinking (and we are) they’re worth adding to your PC favourites. We liked Bryan Gould’s thinking on the economy. (He’s a former Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University and politician in the UK.)

He’s arguing for a change in our economic policy approach, away from reliance on interest rates as the main weapon. A AnweNZ isn’t just concerned with economics. It is involved in debates across the social and economic spectrum.