Primordial Sound Meditation Workshop
Freddie Cecchini, certified by Deepak Chopra in primordial sound meditation, instructs a group of the value of meditation in their personal and professional lives. Alphachimp Studio, Inc. provides graphic facilitation services for the event, which was both rewarding and relevant. More workshops are in the works for Fall 2002.
August 20, 2002 at Alphachimp Studios, Pittsburgh.


Cortex Collaborative Project
Facilitating Teams in Community-Based Research and On-line Publishing

A small team of facilitators, instructors and an 8th-grade student build a community-based research project and publish it on-line. The team created a website to provide teachers to recreate the model with their own students
. Tons of links, tutorials and brainstorming ideas.
Cooperative Education Services Agency (CESA 12)
Ashland, WI


"On Love and Long Distance" by Dianne R. Durand
Adapted from a letter written to her daughter. Wisdom from the ages, and important concepts to remember as we all stagger through our lives and loves.


P.U.M.P. Member Wrangle: Pittsburgh Public School System
Based on the results of a survey conducted by the Pittsburgh Urban Magnate Program, most of its members would not choose to put their kids in the Pittsburgh Public School system. What are the facts vs. perception? Is there a crisis in leadership?
July 29, 2002 | 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Club Cafe, Pittsburgh's Southside


Critical Mass: Celebrating Pittsburgh's Creative Class
Drawn by the buzz, talented artists, architects, entrepreneurs, musicians, writers, thinkers and party-goers filled the foyer of the Warhol Museum and its auditorium to hear members from Ground Zero, Warhol Museum director Tom Sokolowski, Tereneh Mosley of the the Regional Alliance, and Richard Florida CMU professor and author of the Creative Class.
The Andy Warhol Museum
Saturday June 29, 2002


Tom's Burndown Cafe
After work, the team dropped by Tom's Burndown Cafe, a bar on Madeline Island, Wisconsin, that, as one may guess, burnt down. The owners brought in a refrigerated semi-trailer, built a makeshift patio, draped a big ole tarp as a temporary solution. Years later, nothing's change much except that more graffiti and signs have been posted with the world's best collection of pithy wisdom.


Facilitation Processes in Disaster Recovery
Seminar facilitated by Lenny Diamond, Maria Begona Rodas Carrillo and Deb Starzynski
International Association of Facilitators Conference
Saturday May 26, 2002
Fort Worth, Texas


Notes on a Lecture by Edward Tufte
Seminar on the Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Wednesday August 16, 2000
Fairmont Hotel, Chicago

 

“Any given problem can be a justification for some and a challenge for others: take your choice.”
~ Anonymous