Visual Thinking is a powerful skill that taps into our deepest biological capability for understanding. It enhances our ability to develop new ideas and designs, communicate those ideas effectively, and collaborate with others to make them real.

Visual Thinking uses tools – pen and paper, index cards, sticky notes, etc. – to externalize internal thinking processes, making them more clear, explicit, and actionable. It’s a way to collaborate, co-create, and ideate much more effectively with an engagement (meetings, one-on-ones, workshops, etc.)

Throughout the evening Marvin Gaviola will show you how to:

• Use the visual alphabet
• Get a better understanding of the value of Visual Thinking
• Use Visual Thinking within an engagement – a skill you can immediately put to use in your organization

About the Presenter
Marvin Gaviola is a world-class visual thinker with over 12 years of experience honing his facilitation, design, and system thinking chops as part of the XPLANE team.

As a creative at XPLANE, he navigates the challenges of organizational change, business strategy, and design methods to develop creative solutions that delight for a variety of industries and clients. He is also well-versed in interactive, learning, UI/UX, experience, and information design. Marvin has worked with companies such as Mastercard, Harley-Davidson, Abbott, P&G, Autodesk, IHG, Cardinal Health, and Nike, to name a few.

As a facilitator, Marvin is eager to share his wisdom and expertise. He is well-known and loved for his sense of humor and his keen attention to detail, often seeing connections others overlook. If he had to distill his skills to one superpower, it would be his curiosity – he dives deep to find the best solutions.

Details
Date:  Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Time:  Registration and networking begins at 5:30 pm. The event begins at 6:00 pm and last until 8:30 pm.
Location:  Neyborly, 205 NW 4th Ave, Portland, OR 97209
Parking:  On-street parking and paid parking lots are available.
Refreshments:  Complimentary refreshments and beverages will be available
Register:  Through Eventbrite. Online registration available until 8 am the morning of the event. Registration also available at the door if space available. Space limited to 50 attendees.

It’s a party!

Come join your ODN/CCP friends and colleagues as we celebrate the end of another successful Oregon ODN programming year. This will be a great chance to catch up with old friends and network with new ones! We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Details
Date:  Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Time:  Registration and networking begins at 5:30 pm and party lasts until 8:30 pm.
Location:  Kell’s Irish Restaurant and Pub, 112 SW 2nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97204
Parking:  Paid on-street parking and parking garages available.
Food:  Complimentary appetizers and water/iced tea. Other food and beverages available for purchase. Happy hour prices good until 6:30 ($2 off all Kell’s beer and $6 Jameson; food options range from $7 to $17).
Cost:  Chapter Members are free. Partner Organizations (ATD, PHRMA) and Guests are $10.
Register:  Through Eventbrite. Online registration available until 8 am the morning of the event. Registration will also be available at the door. Please register early so we can ensure adequate snacks!

When we encounter a large complex problem, we develop a solution. The “solution” works well for a while, and then it doesn’t… We call these situations “wicked problems,” or dilemmas, where treating them as Either/Or choices doesn’t work over time.

Enter Polarity Thinking: Polarities are sets of opposites which can’t function well independently, because the two sides of a polarity are interdependent: The objective of Polarity Thinking is to get the best of both opposites while avoiding the limits of each.

In this highly participative session you will learn the main principles of Polarity Thinking and explore how to:

• Distinguish between a problem to be solved and a polarity to be managed
• Map the benefits of each side of a polarity and the downsides of each
• Place yourself on a Polarity Map of a specific pair of values/poles
• Develop action plans to keep you moving from the upside of one pole to the upside of the other while minimizing the pain and dysfunction of the downsides of each.

You will leave with a new set of lenses to use at home, at work, wherever you encounter Either/Or thinking that could benefit from Both/And approaches.

About the Presenter

Barry Johnson, inventor of Polarity Thinking, will present remotely via Zoom. In 1975, Barry created the first Polarity Map® and set of principles. Since then he has used Polarity Thinking with clients from all sectors around the globe to leverage polarities, AKA paradoxes, dilemmas, or tensions.

Helen Spector, OODN Board Member, will live-facilitate the presentation with Barry.

Details

Date:  Wednesday, May 8, 2019
Time:  Registration and networking from 5:30-6 pm. Program from 6-8:30 pm.
Location: Daimler, 4555 N. Channel, Corporate Conference Center, Portland, OR 97217
Parking:  Free and available on the street.
Cost:  ODN Chapter members and Partner Organizations (ATD, PHRMA), $10;  Others, $25
Refreshments:  Light refreshments and beverages will be served.
Register:  Through Eventbrite. Online registration available until 8 am the morning of the event. Registration also available at the door if space available. Space limited to 40.