The Entrepreneurs’ Tool Belt

Posted on | May 4, 2010 | No Comments

When launched the Dublin Hub will provide access to an ongoing series of training workshops and courses designed to equip Entrepreneurs and Social Innovators with the skills and tools to realise their ambitions.

In association with !AHA! we are delighted to be able to offer a preview of the material, content and trainers that will support this cornerstone of the Dublin Hub vision.

The Dublin Hub in association with !AHA!
present
‘The Sustainable Social Entrepreneur Workshop Series’

The Entrepreneurs’ Tool Belt

A One-Day Intensive Workshop Introducing the Essential Tools
for Emerging Entrepreneurs and Social Innovators.

Sunday, May 23, 2010
O´Callaghan Alexander Hotel
Fenian St, off Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Registration: 09.00 AM
Workshop: 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM

Workshop Fee: €40, For Booking Information Visit:
http://entrepreneurtoolbelt.eventbrite.com/

As a Change Maker, do you have the skills and tools you will need to adapt to a world in the process of massive and chaotic change?

Local and global economies, our environment, our social systems and our individual lives are all being impacted on an unprecedented scale. The increasingly evident interconnections amongst these systems, and the ‘ripple effect’ of the impacts they are creating, are demanding fresh and creative responses from us. All who are actively engaged with managing or stimulating change are faced with the need to adapt new perspectives and strategies.Whether you are seeking to improve our situation through your creativity and entrepreneurism, or finding yourself responding to unexpected changes in your life and the world around you, ‘The Entrepreneurs’ Tool Belt’ will introduce you to the four key skill areas you will need to become a more effective and creative Change Maker.

This One-Day Intensive Workshop will comprise 4 modules of 1.5 hours each:

Module 1: An Introduction to Sustainability

An introduction to the key issues and challenges we are facing today; exploring how Social Innovators, Entrepreneurs and ChangeMakers are using the opportunity in the crisis to develop more sustainable products and services.

Module 2: Accelerated Creativity Techniques

Described as “brainstorming on speed”, this module will introduce you to new and innovative creative problem solving techniques that go way beyond mind mapping, which you can apply immediately to find creative and innovative solutions to any business or life challenge.

Module 3: Effective Communication Skills

Introducing  the key concepts of Nonviolent Communication and NLP,  this module will explore how to develop empathic listening and clear communication skills by understanding how our values influence what we hear, how to identify true needs, and how our personal paradigms, beliefs, values, and the power of our words, affect our effectiveness as communicators.

Module 4: Managing Myself

An introduction to your body’s physical, mental and energetic systems and how to use Energy Psychology techniques to ensure that you remain mentally and emotionally effective in the midst of business and life crises. We will identify how you handle fear, conflict and negative self-belief, and introduce you to techniques to clear them and release the True You!

What They Are Saying (feedback from previous courses):

The Sustainable Design Innovation course content is one of the most well thought out I have seen. It gets the balance and depth just right on key sustainability and design know how to enable professionals to practically apply sustainable design in their areas of expertise.
-Dr. Dorothy Maxwell (Technical Director, Global View Sustainability Services; previously, Senior Environmental Specialist for Enterprise Ireland)

This course is not about the plethora of ‘Post -It’ type solutions available today, It is about fundamental philosophy and knowledge to see through the volumes of misinformation and dubious solutions used to ‘Greenwash’ products , processes and companies, Outstanding.
- David Mavroudis (Architect)

There are so many buzz words around sustainability these days. A course like this goes back to first principles and gives foundation to an understanding of what they actually mean and represent. Putting the theory into practice is the place that a course like this can be a catalyst for any person across different disciplines.
- Patrick Shaffery (Architect)

I would say that sustainability is the way of all future living and that it is really important that we get involved now and at all levels. The SDI course is a fantastic course to get you thinking of moving forwards.
- Fiona Lynch (Graphic Designer with Irish Life)

Workshop Leaders:

Erik van Lennep, TEPUI
Erik van Lennep is a sustainability consultant, green design practitioner, entrepreneur and trainer. He is a co-founder of Cultivate Sustainable Living Centre, Dublin and co-developer of the post graduate national course on Sustainable Design Innovation (SDI). He has worked to set up innovative community projects and NGOs in Ireland and the USA for more than 30 years.

Paul O’Connor, DAEDALUS
DAEDALUS specialises in teaching, training, facilitating and employing the latest creativity, mind-mapping, brainstorming and visioning techniques through individual and group client-focused activities, workshops and consultancy. “We don’t just teach you to think OUTSIDE of the Box. We show you that there is NO BOX!”

Sarah Bird, SARAHBIRD.IE
Sarah Bird is a leading international practitioner and trainer of ‘Energy Psychology’ techniques. Described as ‘The New Psychology’, it is a scientific discipline that combines modern cognitive psychology with bio-energy principles, to shift and replace the chemical patterns in the brain that maintain unwanted habits, inappropriate emotional responses and self-limiting ways of thinking. It is proving highly effective for the treatment and relief of emotional challenges.

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