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SUMMARY:Catalyst Ranch's 18th Anniversary *Virtual* Party
DESCRIPTION:  \nCatalyst Ranch’s 18th Anniversary *Virtual* Party\n \n\nEvery year we invite our friends\, family and neighbors to commemorate our years in business since that first November in 2002. \nThis year\, we’ll celebrate VIRTUALLY\, as is fitting with this most remarkable year! \nJoin us November 18\, 2020 and toast with us to our 18th Anniversary: \nWe’ll be sharing memories from our history\, checking in with what old friends are doing now\, and announcing the special endeavors Catalyst Ranch is embarking on as we march forward and look ahead to the years and anniversaries to come. \n\nThe Main Event kicks off at 6pm Central\nJoin early at 5:30pm for an interactive Energizer activity!\n\nRSVP for FREE! We’ll be announcing more updates as we get closer to that evening…\n\n  \nAnd introducing a lovely dinner option available:\nHave a complete celebration at home with a gourmet meal from Big Delicious Planet\nOur longtime catering partner for meetings provides incredible farm-to-table meals which are available to be ordered throughout the week\, to be picked up at the Big Delicious Planet farm in Chicago’s West Loop. \nTheir Urban Farm Harvest Dinner is a perfect feast to have at home while you tune in to our Anniversary Party: Perfect comfort food for any cool autumn night or your Halloween dinner! Many vegetables and herbs are grown in our own West Town Urban Farm. Ready to reheat\, plate up and serve! \n\nTender Braised Balsamic Short Ribs\nSweet Potato Puree\nRoasted Organic BDP Urban Farm Autumn Vegetables\nBDP’s Organic Urban Farm Autumn Salad\nCaramel Apple Pie in a Jar\n\nOrdering notes: \n\nMeals are $45 per person\, with optional add-ons available.\nOrders must be made by Sunday\, Nov 15\nSelect your pick-up time when ordering: From 12p through 5p\, on either Nov 17 or 18.\n\nClick here to order on Tock.com!\n**Be aware\, the above link opens an ordering screen unique to Anniversary party-goers\, which removes the usual 2-person minimum so that you can order a single meal if you like. If you navigate away from that ordering screen\, you can return to it by clicking the link above again. \n\n\n\nAbout Catalyst Ranch\n\n\nCatalyst Ranch\, located in Chicago’s West Loop\, is the premiere venue for creative and innovative meetings and events. Our incomparable atmosphere has won us raves for inciting new levels of interaction and accomplishment. Simply put\, We Make Better Meetings. \nDuring these times of social distance\, we’ve been proud to make our physical space available for safe and controlled small group meetings and events\, in accordance with Chicago allowances. And for those near and far\, we have been able to present or co-present a variety of virtual engagements to connect audiences with opportunities for professional and personal growth and exploration of creativity. \nSee more public engagements here.
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/virtual-18th-anniversary-party/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Anniversary Party,Launch,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Designing Meetings for Engagement and Results
DESCRIPTION:Catalyst Ranch continues its series of FREE web engagements for professional and personal enrichment. On Friday\, July 10\, expert facilitator Susan Newhouse shares her method for designing meetings with more strategy\, for better results! \n*This event is LIVE only\, and no recording of the presentation will be available for viewing afterward.* \n  \nVirtual Workshop: Designing Meetings for Engagement and Results\nEver walked out of a meeting feeling like it was a total waste of time or nothing was accomplished? Those missed opportunities to bring a team together\, gain alignment\, or solve a problem are often the result of poor planning. \nStrategic meeting planning is much more than setting an agenda – it’s about understanding what success looks like\, bringing the best out of all participants\, and getting tangible results. \nIn this workshop\, you’ll learn three key steps to help you design and lead successful meetings of all types:\n\n\nEXPLORE – Clarify objectives\, identify desired outcomes\, and set realistic boundaries\n\n\nDESIGN – Discover the intersection between strategy and creativity to drive engagement and results\n\n\nFACILITATE – Manage logistics and incorporate approaches to enhance creative collaboration\n\n\nKey Takeaways:\n\n\nLearn to design with the end in mind\n\n\nExplore essential components of successful meetings planned with strategy\n\n\nCreate interactive experiences that drive engagement\n\n\nThis session is packed with actionable information for planning a wide array of meetings. We’re proud to welcome Susan Newhouse\, who is our facilitator partner for our new Strategic Planning Meeting Bundle\, which offers our vital Catalyst Ranch environment and an expert guide\, to businesses plotting their steps forward in this new economy. \n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n\nAbout Susan Newhouse\nA dynamic facilitator and instructor\, Susan harnesses the power of human connection to inspire individuals and organizations to make change. \nShe brings almost 20 years’ experience helping clients solve their most complex challenges. Her immersive\, interactive experiences apply principles of creative problem solving\, design thinking\, multiple intelligences theory\, and improvisation to disrupt ordinary thinking and create breakthrough for individuals\, teams and organizations. \nAs Chief Strategic Facilitation Officer and Senior Vice President of Qualitative Innovation at Kantar\, Susan led hundreds of cutting-edge innovation sessions for Fortune 500 Companies and developed a creative facilitation training program which she delivered around the globe. \nAs Lab Lead in the Deloitte Greenhouse\, she facilitated strategic conversations for clients\, engaging them intellectually\, physically and emotionally so they could take problem-solving to a new level. She was also instrumental in launching Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory’s tech-enabled Spark Experiences. \nA member of the Creative Education Foundation since 2002\, Susan is an instructor at the annual Creative Problem Solving Institute\, and has also taught at EPIC International Summit\, Florida Creativity Weekend\, and ACRE/EDU in South Africa. \nLearn more at www.susannewhouse.com. \n  \nAbout Catalyst Ranch\nCatalyst Ranch\, located in Chicago’s West Loop\, is the premiere venue for creative and innovative meetings and events. Our incomparable atmosphere has won us raves for inciting new levels of interaction and accomplishment. Simply put\, We Make Better Meetings. \nDuring these times of social distance\, our free webinar series aims to connect our audience with our network of professionals\, who each offer unique and valuable wisdom for professional and personal growth\, for Meetings Industry folks and for everyone!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/virtual-workshop-designing-meetings-for-engagement-and-results/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Webinar,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Effective Principles and Purposeful Tools to Improve Your Virtual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Catalyst Ranch continues its series of FREE web engagements for professional and personal enrichment. On Wednesday\, June 24\, veteran facilitators from Ah Ha! share and demonstrate their best strategies and activities for making the most of virtual meetings. \n \n\nEffective Principles and Purposeful Tools to Improve Your Virtual Meeting\n\n\n**This event is LIVE only\, and no recording of the presentation will be available for viewing afterward.**\nTired of unproductive virtual meetings? Looking to improve your next online team session? Looking for new ways to connect with other team members? \nOnline meetings have become a way of life yet simply opening a fresh Zoom or WebEx does not ensure you will accomplish your goals. \nJoin Ah Ha!’s Wayne and Susannah Childers as they share proven principles and purposeful activities to help create a better experience for YOU… and your meeting guests. Energizing and Experiential\, come explore lessons learned from 20+years of facilitating teams – online and off. \nWhat can you expect from the session?\n– Effective principles to improve any virtual session \n– New tools for your next virtual meetings \n– New activities to help boost engagement and creativity \n– A CATALYST RANCH BONUS – at least 1 new idea to improve YOUR next meeting \nWhat should you bring?\nYour questions\, a curious mind and a willingness to try something new. \n  \n\n  \n \nAbout Ah Ha!\nAh Ha! is a facilitation and consulting company led by husband and wife duo Wayne and Susannah Childers. For over 20+ years\, they have found fresh ways to Connect others\, Create ideas and Transform how teams work together. Ah Ha! designs and leads facilitated sessions to support teams in gaining knowledge\, integrating information and developing new connections. \nSome people have a mission. Ah Ha! is ON one…. \nInspire people\, connect knowledge and illuminate possibilities. \nSimple\, powerful & trust us- it’ll get you where you want to go. \nReady to get started? www.experienceahha.com \n  \nAbout Catalyst Ranch\nCatalyst Ranch\, located in Chicago’s West Loop\, is the premiere venue for creative and innovative meetings and events. Our incomparable atmosphere has won us raves for inciting new levels of interaction and accomplishment. Simply put\, We Make Better Meetings. \nDuring these times of social distance\, our free webinar series aims to connect our audience with our network of professionals\, who each offer unique and valuable wisdom for professional and personal growth\, for Meetings Industry folks and for everyone!
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/virtual-workshop-effective-principles-and-purposeful-tools-to-improve-your-virtual-meeting/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Professional Development,Webinar,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Three Keys to Happiness and Well-Being
DESCRIPTION:Catalyst Ranch continues its series of FREE web engagements for professional and personal enrichment. On Thursday\, June 11\, our guest presenter Rae Luskin shows us how to cultivate and focus her three keys to happiness: passion\, creativity\, and personal connection. Read on for the workshop description from Rae. \n \n  \n\nChocolate\, Creativity and Connections: 3 Keys to Happiness and Well-Being\nAre you feeling stressed and overwhelmed? \nDo you find yourself fighting all the time with your spouse or partner? \nHave you realized you lost your passion somewhere along the way? \nThree things that have kept me sane and healthy during this time are chocolate\, creativity and connections. I am not telling you to eat chocolate (but if you want to bring some to our program feel free). Chocolate is a metaphor for passion. \n\nIn the world of COVID\, when a recession is underway and so many are unemployed it seems like a luxury to think about your passion. But as Les Brown says\, “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”\nCreative expression is as much a wellness practice as good nutrition and exercise. Creativity is essential to succeed today as parenting and educating our children takes on new responsibilities and stresses.\nWorking from home\, quarantine\, social distancing brings on new challenges of isolation and loneliness. How do we connect with loved ones\, co-workers and clients in meaningful ways?\n\nIn this interactive program\, we will look at some easy\, fun tools to help you:\n\nIdentify and explore your passions.\nDiscover 3 easy ways to boost your creativity and reduce your stress in as little as 10 minutes.\nCultivate a connection mindset and build better relationships.\nLeverage this pause so you can create a life that you love using your natural gifts\, talents and creativity.\n\nPlease bring a pen\, markers\, crayons\, stickers\, pencils and plenty of paper. \nNo artistic ability needed. All you need is a willingness to play\, explore and experiment. \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Rae Luskin\nRae Luskin is a true leader in using creative expression to nurture self-worth\, resilience\, healing\, and social change. Rae\, a community activist for over 40 years\, passionately focuses her lens on improving the lives of women and children. Sharing her personal story of healing from childhood sexual abuse she is committed to being the change she wants to see in the world. She is the author of Art From My Heart and The Creative Activist: Make the World Better\, One Person\, One Action at a Time. You can find out more at www.thewinningadventure.com.
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/virtual-workshop-three-keys-to-happiness-and-well-being/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Talk,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Virtual Workshop: Open Conversation Project Circles
DESCRIPTION:Catalyst Ranch continues its series of FREE web engagements for professional and personal enrichment with a virtual workshop on how to have better conversations\, emphasizing listening and body language to foster better human connection. On Friday\, June 5\, Ann Van Eron and Jackie Sloane of the Open Conversation Project teach us techniques to activate conversation and connection with peers\, be it in business or otherwise. \n \nOpen Conversation Project Circles:\nExploring Simple practices that open possibility for you and your organization\nSometimes something that seems small at the time can have exponential\, lasting impact. How we are being\, how we bring ourselves to situations\, how we respond to others can impact what happens around us. This is more important now than ever as “what we have always done” gives way to the uncertain. How do we each move forward during this time to create better relationships with those we work with and those we serve? Whether you’re looking to experience more community or build collaboration and shared leadership across your organization\, join us to experience and learn how Open Conversation Project Circles might make a difference in our everyday interactions. \nIn this interactive 90 minute session we’ll explore:\n\nLevels of listening\nHow body language impacts what is experienced\nHow we are being is generative\nAn interactive listening and learning conversational experience\nWhat makes people open or closed in their interactions with others\nNoticing your signal for when you are closed\n\nThe Open Conversation Project Circles is a virtual program that integrates coaching\, training\, peer-mentoring\, action-learning and community building to accelerate achieving outcomes such as: \n\nRespect for differences\, inclusion\nBuilding alignment\, working collectively\, breaking down silos\nCultivating collaboration and ownership around an issue or goal\nCultivating engagement and innovation across departments and responsibility levels\nImproved results\n\nAbout The Open Conversation Project\nThe Open Conversation Project began as an inquiry into how we might create a way for people to come together to begin to cultivate common ground and understanding through conversation at a time of great polarity\, and complex challenges. Engaging others in conversation about what is deeply meaningful and what’s possible together can be transformative. \nWhen we are open\, we are empathetic and can co-create productive conversations and innovative approaches. Being open involves deep listening to another and for what’s possible together. Conversation is at the heart of leadership and how we work together. \nThe Open Conversation Project Circles was developed as a result of a study with 100 interviews\, a project of the Societal Transformation Lab of MIT’s Presencing Institute. The Circles offer learning\, tools and practice to support modeling being open and engaging in open-minded conversations. \nAnn and Jackie\, seasoned consultants and executive coaches\, utilize the transformative power of conversation in their work. They have supported many clients of all sizes\, including privately-held\, not-for-profit\, public sector and Fortune 100 firms across industries and functions in having open\, generative conversations that produce unpredictable and sustainable outcomes. \nLearn more about Ann Van Eron\, Ph.D.\, MCC\, and Jackie Sloane\, MCC\, here: https://potentials.com/community/open-conversation-project-circles/
URL:https://playground.catalystranch.com/event/virtual-workshop-open-conversation-project-circles/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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