Mobilizer Boot Camps: Knowledge Mobilization Workshop Series

Knowledge Mobilization

Making what we know ready for service and action is a complex process. We have an overwhelming quantity of data and information with little meaning. Creating coherence and understanding is crucial.

It is one of the most important skills we need in our knowledge-based society.

This complexity requires strong and productive relationships to share ideas, goals, resources, and rewards – no single person, organization, or sector can do this alone.

We are inviting you to participate, as a pioneer in Knowledge Mobilization practice, in the first series of Knowledge Mobilization Boot Camps across Canada for 2009.

About the Boot Camp Series:

We have three goals:

1) Bring people together that have an interest in knowledge mobilization to build relationships and shared commitment.

2) Engage in purposeful activities that are grounded in the contexts and capacities of work, community, and productive social interaction.

3) Develop recommendations and an emergent agenda for building the supports, institutional adaptations, and cultural changes needed to move from what we know to what we do.

During each "Boot Camp", up to 50 participants will engage around a theme – such as leadership, human resources, education, health, governance, security – and work at imagining the elements of systems that will enable the creation of the greatest value from the use of what we collectively know.

Schedule:

January 23, 2009, Ottawa ON, Knowledge Mobilization Boot Camp 1:

Incentives and Infrastructure for Knowledge Mobilization

Cartier Place Suite Hotel, 180 Cooper Street, Ottawa

Speakers: Phil McNeely, Daryl Rock, Laura Watts, Isabelle Eaton

February 20, 2009, Toronto ON, Knowledge Mobilization Boot Camp 2:

Human Resources for Knowledge Mobilization

Hilton Toronto Airport, 5875 Airport Road, Mississauga

Speakers: David Phipps, Melanie Barwick, Amy Coupal

March 20, 2009, Victoria BC, Knowledge Mobilization Boot Camp 3:

Leadership for Knowledge Mobilization

Royal Roads University, 2005 Sooke Road, Victoria, BC