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The Global Association of Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) Communities (GASC or Global SoL), formerly the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) with its Global Network (SoL Global) and the Center for Organizational Learning with its Organizational Learning Network at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,1) offers the following Knowledge Management education and training opportunities:

SoL Global / International

Communities

SoL Global Communities (aka SoL fractals (learning communities), formerly SoL International Communities)

    Note: (2/2023) Global SoL Board 2023: Botswana, SoL Community of Practice, France, Japan, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden

    Australia* , Austria*, Bay Area (US, was: US – West Coast)*, Botswana, Brazil*, Bulgaria*, Colombia*, Croatia*, Denmark*, Finland*, France, Greece (in formation / 2023), Gulf Region*, Hungary, Italy*, Japan, Middle East & Africa Region: Morocco, South Africa, Botswana, Egypt, Ghana, Iran (emergent /2023), Mexico*, Netherlands, New Zealand (in formation / 2018), North America* (was: Founding, Boston, Norteast, or USA SoL; now: Center for Systems Awareness), Norway, Philippines*, Singapore*, South Foundation*, Spain*, Sweden, Switzerland*, Turkey*, United Kingdom*, US – Midwest*, US – Southeast (SESol)*

    Communities in Formation

    Note: (2/2023) “…there is a small group of professionals that are in the process of being founding members of a SoL Community that will take the place of the gap that was left when SoL North America ended.”

    Note: (10/2019) Egypt, Colombia, Ghana, Iran and South Africa… Italy, Norway, the Netherlands and Morocco (emerging communities)

    Note: (4/2018) New Zealand, Ghana and Chile (in formation); Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Hungary (need to strengthen); Columbia (in transition)

    Note: (2012) The below communities have been listed as regular “Communities” at least from 2000 to 2012. Thus, they might have been some kind of active and for some there are hints that this is the case (e.g Germany, Greece, Malaysia, or South Africa).

    Argentina, Brazil – Rio, Chile, Chile-Vina del Mar, China, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Iran, Israel, Malaysia and Indonesia (was: Malaysia), Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden-West, Tasmania, Thailand, US – Oregon, US Southwest – Cactus, Venezuela

Consortia, Projects, Communities of Practice:

    SoL Global Community of Practice (aka Sol Global Coaching Community or SoL Coaches Community of Practice)
    Past Consortia, Projects, Communities of Practice
    Sustainability Consortium, Public Sector Consortium / Community of Practice, Cross-Sector Collaboration, Knowledge & Innovation Network, ALP Community of Practice, Youth & Education Network, Assessment, Mergers & Acquisitions Consortium, Research, SoL Asthma Fractal, Consultants Action Learning Projects, Global Leadership Initiative, Global Institute for Responsible Leadership, Capacity Building Working Group, SoL European Sustainability Group, Consultants Convergence, Diversity and Inclusiveness, Large Scale Change Community of Interest, SoL European Action Research on Collective Intelligence, Sustainable Lean Sigma, SoL Jeans

Conferences

SoL Learning Plaza* (was: SoL European Learning Plaza, GASC European Conference, SoL European Forum)

    The Society for Organizational Learning Learning Plaza (SoL Learning Plaza), formerly the SoL European Learning Plaza, GASC European Conference and the SoL European Forum, is the international or European conference of the Global Association of Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) Communities (GASC), formerly the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL). It is an event where you will be inspired – and inspire others, explore and experience, and be an active part of an international learning community of people and organizations building knowledge for systemic change. The plaza, piazza or place is the central space where community members meet to see each other, talk, share and learn.

SoL Global Forum**

    The Society for Organizational Learning Global Forum (SoL Global Forum) is an international forum that builds upon “learning stories” from across the world to feature concrete, new ways of working and collaborating based on co-creation and co-transformation. It is the meeting point of learning organizations in all sectors of society.

SoL Regional Conferences

  • 2nd SoL Regional (Duna) Symposium, 15-16 November 2013, H13, Budapest, Hungary
    Conference Theme: Ancient Futures: Enhancing Systemic Transformation in the Region
    (Organizer: SoL Hungary/Institute; H13)

      Conference program n.a.

      Day 1:
      DunaPartnership: Dialogue into Action
      Theory in Practice on Systemic Transformation

      Day 2:
      All day learning market: Open sharing of related projects and cases and idea processed by methods of Open Space and TWC
      SoL Duna founding gathering (if need is acknowledged)

  • 1st SoL Regional Symposium, 18-19 October 2012, FH Wien der WKW, Austria
    Conference Theme: A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest
    (Organizer: SoL Austria; SoL Italy; SoL Hungary; Institut für Personal & Organisation, FH Wien der WKW)

      Conference program n.a.

      Keynotes:
      Changing the world one meeting at a time: Creating a culture of participation with the principles of Large Scale Interventions

      Round Tables:
      Why should I share?
      …n.a.

      …n.a.

  • 1st SoL South East Europe Forum (SoL SEE Forum), May 25, 2009, Zagreb, Croatia
    Conference Theme: Economic Crisis: Threat and Opportunity
    (Organizer: SOL Hrvatska (Croatia); Cotrugli Business School; Qantum 21)

      Plenary Sessions: (4)
      Titles n.a.

      Workshops:
      Chose one of the proposed themes to work on and dicuss them (World cafe)
      Create system map for chosen world cafe theme
      Create individual and shared vision of the desired state for chosen theme & create individual action plans

Special SoL Conferences

  • Integrating Organizational Learning with Knowledge Management, November 1-2, 1999
    (Special SoL Forum in conjunction with the Systems Thinking in Action Conference, Nov 3-5 – Theme: Learning Communities: Meeting the Challenges of a Global Enterprise; Organizer: Pegasus Communications)

      Conference program n.a.

      Weaving Knowledge Generation with Knowledge Diffusion
      Knowledge Generation and Diffusion in Practice—a commentary by SoL companies
      A System for Building Knowledge: Research, Capacity Building and Practice—a discussion of SoL’s organizational framework for leveraging organizational learning and knowledge management efforts by representatives of the three constituencies
      The SoL Community in Action—reflections from SoL company practitioners SoL Research—a look at initiatives including sustainability, learning histories, and assessment
      Distributed Leadership in Self-Organizing Systems—a way of thinking about leadership for today’s organizations
      The Global SoL Community

Webinars

  • May 2022: Living the Vision and Re-Starting SoL (Global): An open discussion on the future of SoL (Global SoL)
  • May 2018: Systems Thinking
  • Apr 2018: Emergence in Complex Social Change

Virtual Learning Practice (Host: Global SoL Community of Practice & National Mentorship Movement)

    Mar 2024: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and its impact on organisational and individual performance
    Feb 2024: Unraveling the dynamics of effective leadership in the 3rd generation of organisations

    Nov 2023: What is the leader’s role in addressing the many paper cuts that organizational life causes?
    Sep 2023: A practical model to overcome communication challenges within leadership, teams, and organizations
    May 2023: How we can make sense of what is now unfolding in the world and how can we can respond?
    Apr 2023: Trust. A Fundamental Human Trait that Changes Everything
    Mar 2023: Why we don’t do better even through we know better
    Feb 2023: Shifting from a PROBLEM orientation to a CREATIVE process

    Nov 2022: To reflect on the past year and the outlook for 2023
    Oct 2022: If the problem keeps coming back…
    Sep 2022: The most effective way to cope with CHANGE is to help to CREATE it!
    Aug 2022: the concept of Middle-Up-Down Management (MUD)
    Jul 2022: World Café dialogue: The essence of collaborative wisdom and experience
    Jun 2022: What would it take to create value together for every level of participation people wanting to go deeper, and those who want to just “pop in”
    Apr 2022: The tools of organisational and emergent learning: Before Action Review (BAR) and After Action Review (AAR)

    Dec 2021: Reflect on, consolidate and enrich our learning from the past six sessions
    Nov 2021: Ladder of Inference
    Sep 2021: Words create Worlds
    Aug 2021: Dive into Dialogue

FaceTalks

  • Mar 2018: Bachelor Young Entrepreneur Program from Strasbourg; Liderazgo Colaborativo
  • Feb 2018: Management by Intuition; Set up a SoL community in Ghana

Dialogue Sessions on…

    Jul 2019: Homosapiens à l´heure de l´intelligence artificielle
    Jun 2019: Learning Organisations; The Learning Person
    May 2019: Managing Complexity in Social Systems; Learning Organisations; 6PM Model
    Jun 2018: Systems Thinking (II); Creating Futures that Matter Today: Facilitating Change Through Shared Vision

Connect & Share Sunday conversation (every week)

Active Chapters’ Events

Note: In this section the communities with no extra page on the KMedu Hub are listed. Communities with an extra page on the KMedu Hub are listed below.

SoL Botswana

Training

Senior Leadership Development Programmes

    The CEO’s TABLE – Understanding the Fifth Discipline: Developing Systemic Habits as Senior Leadership & Systems Thinking Practitioners (w. The Fifth Discipline (TFD) Practitioners Botswana & STRLDi)

Events

SoL Botswana Leadership Dialogue Series (Dialogue on Leadership for Sustainable Development)

    May 2022: Harnessing collective intelligence to achieve our ‘Reset’ aspirations
    Oct 2021: Does our ‘prosperity for all’ require us to change our leadership paradigm?

Mindset Change Series (Organizer: Spectrum Analytics)

    Sep 2023: Leveraging Personal Mastery & Systems Thinking for Mindset Change

India / 2021-present

(Quasi-successor of the SoL South Foundation)

Activities

  • Awareness and sharing sessions, capability development workshops and learning sessions on topics in learning organizations / organizational learning

Inactive / Discontinued Chapters’ Events

Web Channels

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