In light of increasing public health protocols around travel and social distancing, L3 has elected to run its second round of workshops (Waterloo Region and Halifax) online.
"In-person workshops are great for cultivating relationships, but are limited to the specific time when everyone can be in the same place. Remote workshops remove that limitation and offer a number of alternative possibilities," says Tara Campbell, L3's Lab Coordinator and the linchpin behind L3's complex workshop design process. "For example, we can break the workshop up into small parts, have time to complete supporting work between those parts, and share the workshop with more people. We will be crafting the upcoming FRAME workshops with these possibilities in mind, designing our process to achieve our desired L3 outcomes and deliver a great virtual experience to everyone who participates."
What does this mean for L3 participants and stakeholders? "For Atlantic Online (the online workshop that will replace the event originally scheduled for April 22-23 in Halifax), participants can expect multiple, shorter sessions with time in between for reflection and independent tasks. For both workshops, we will still bring everyone together for virtual group activities and discussions while also supporting asynchronous communication and feedback. We'll also be trying out some fun online tools that our participants will get to work with first-hand."
As always, L3 is excited to be able to remain dynamic, flexible, and innovative in the face of disruption, change, and uncertainty. We look forward to continuing the work we started in Toronto in January this spring with the growing L3 community. We still expect to have a strong and healthy diversity of participants, with some still fresh from their Toronto experience and others new to the table and ready to FRAME new opportunities in small business succession through social purpose conversion.
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About Legacy Leadership Lab (L3)
L3 is an 18-month initiative by the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience, funded by the Government of Canada’s Investment Readiness program. We are leading five Workshops from coast to coast to help build expert-driven solutions for Canada’s transitioning small business community. During these Workshops, the we will develop market interventions and prototypes that allow conventional and social finance players, business service providers, and community leaders to facilitate social purpose conversions of existing businesses in their own towns.
About Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR)
WISIR is a research institute at the University of Waterloo’s School of Environment, Enterprise and Development committed to generating trans- and inter-disciplinary knowledge about social innovations and the social innovation process (the dynamics of learning, adaptation and resilience). Our approach is to pursue collaborative research and projects that bridge University of Waterloo departments, involve researchers from around the world, and engage those beyond academia. We seek to mobilize this knowledge through a range of new curriculum offerings and training opportunities - both within and outside of a university setting.