Canada

Creative Alberta

May 15 – 17 Edmonton Alberta is home to one of the wealthiest populations in the world, to a major oil sands resource, to a world-class education system and to several major Canadian cultural organizations. With a population of just 3.5 million people, Alberta punches above its weight in North America. But it is challenged. [...]

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Collaborative Decision Making with LEGOS

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The Vancouver network recently hosted a Strategic Play® Workshop led by newly elected FRSA Jacquie Lloyd Smith. I was excited to participate, although slightly bemused by the concept. My experience with LEGOS until now had been building Star Wars models with my boys and finding a stray space helmet or a tiny Luke Skywalker under the [...]

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RSA Fellows in Vancouver: Strategic Play Making Big Decisions by Creative Play and 3D Thinking

March 7th, 2012 6:15 pm -10:30 pm Marriott Pinnacle Hotel 1128 West Hastings Vancouver The lack of engagement and stakeholder buy-in are the two biggest road blocks to innovation and problem solving in most organizations today. The Strategic Play® approach engages people to activate group genius within organizations around the world to help solve problems, [...]

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Vancouver Network Update

Under the organizing hands of two Canadian Felllows – Charles McCaffray and Stephen Murgatroyd – three meetings have been held in the 2010-2011 period in Vancouver featuring food, speakers and insightful conversation. At the first Dr Donald G Simpson of the Innovation Expedition explained the idea of a modern day renaissance and enlightenment stimulated by [...]

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A discussion of Adam Smith – Vancouver 11/24

November 24, 2011, 7pm Vancouver Fairleigh Dickinson University Vancouver:  Adam Smith – Enlightenment Thinker and RSA Pioneer, presented by Dr. B. Krause at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Vancouver; hosted by Dr. C. Abrahams at 7 pm on November 24th.  All Fellows and friends of the Society welcome.

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A Seventy Year History with the RSA

Meet Hugh Pratley, a Fellow in Montreal since 1958. Hugh began reading the Journal even earlier than that as his father was an FRSA also. He writes: As I was then 31 I opted for a Life Composition Fellowship and surely got my money’s worth! I have been a Consulting Engineer specializing in long span [...]

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Calling Fellows in the Toronto Region

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It has been some time since we got together. But with the RSA’s expanded support for building International Fellowship initiatives, it seems a good time to schedule another planning meeting for Fellows in the Greater Toronto Area. I am happy to co-ordinate this meeting if there is enough interest. The agenda would focus on exploring: [...]

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Meet and Greet: Jeanette E McClelland Brookes FRSA

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Combining Art and Places of Rescue During their recent Canadian Tour Prince William and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge visited a Calgary Stampede Rotary Reception where they received as a gift a framed Signed Reproduction of a Pastel Painting by Jeanette McClelland Brookes, FRSA. The painting represents 30 out of 350 children being cared for by [...]

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