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            • Your Story is Your Brand
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          • 2015 sessions >
            • Conversations we are hungering to have
            • Gratitude as transformational practice
            • How do we respond to sudden change?
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              • Intuitive Organizational Diagnostic
              • Using Chalk Talk in consulting
            • What does collaboration feel like in consulting practice?
            • Cross Cultural Insights and Reflections - July 2015
            • The Art of Transformational Consulting - June 2015
            • Conversations around equity and justice - May 2015
            • Exploring Asset-Based Community Development - April 2015
            • Eye-opening models and frameworks - March 2015 >
              • Asset-Based Community Development
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            • How can we become the change we want to see in the world? - February 2015
            • How do we focus on the most important things? Or, "What conversations are we yearning for?" Part II. - January 2015
          • 2014 sessions >
            • What conversations are we yearning for? - December 2014
            • Toward a deeper consulting community - November 2014
            • More eye-opening frameworks and models - October 2014 >
              • Articulating Purpose
              • Zentangle
              • Participatory Flowcharting
              • The Turtle Approach to Measurement
              • Intuitive Organizational Diagnosis
              • Problem Abatement Model
              • Hot Action Model
            • Power differentials and how they affect our work - September 2014
            • Be the change: personal qualities of effective consultants - August 2014
            • Toward a Deeper Consulting Community/Focused Conversation Techniques - July 2014
            • Testing
            • More Eye-Opening Models and Frameworks - June 2014
            • Engaging in super-sensitive conversations - from theory to practice - May 2014
            • Toward a Consulting Community - April 2014
            • Eye-opening models and frameworks - March 2014
            • Engaging in super-sensitive conversations - Feb. 2014
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        • October 21st 2014 Funder Confab Harvest
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 New Directions from CORE's 2016 Exploratory Journey
CORE undertook an "Exploratory Journey" from January through August 2016, to identify what we do well and invite deep collective dreaming about the future. 
​See below for the Executive Summary and the full report.

More information about the emerging new directions coming soon!


CORE undertook an "Exploratory Journey" in 2016, to define what we do well and invite deep collective dreaming about the future. Here we share the full report, some history, and reflections. ​

Full Exploratory Journey Report


View Becca's May 25th Presentation about CORE's history and 
our 2016 exploratory journey
here! 


CORE's Starfish Journey
By Becca Krantz, Julie Andersen, and many others
October 2016

​It’s a beautiful day in late May in Madison and 35 people from nonprofits, city government, higher education, consulting, funding and other community roles are engaged in conversation to help determine the future of CORE. Through a gallery walk, centering practice, and small group discussion we reflect on summaries of input gathered from more than 100 individuals, and generate questions and ideas to carry forward. Throughout we are invited to engage with our bodies, our minds, and our hearts. We culminate with a “fishbowl” discussion about the value of equity and what that means for CORE and for Madison. (Read the full post here...)


At the crossroads with you and “U”
By Julie Andersen, CORE Program Director
May 2016

CORE is at a crossroads – a place that evokes excitement, curiosity, potential, and vulnerability for me as CORE’s Program Director. The timing of this journey is due to Becca Krantz’, CORE’s founder and Lead Organizer, “dance with cancer” during the past year (Becca is doing well now – read her blog to learn more) and also because it is CORE’s nature to create space for what is emerging. (Read the full post here...)

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