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At Play in the World: Risking Failure
2025 Conference Theme
Everyone knows about failure, and anyone who has experienced success knows that there were failures along the way. There is almost no success, progress, innovation, growth, or development without failure.
At a leader training in Carmel, California, in the early ‘80s, Werner Erhard was recalled to have said, The thing that differentiates me from most other people is I can tolerate a lack of outcomes with no loss of power.
For many of us, what we are committed to accomplishing is next to impossible; there is no model, no roadmap, no prescribed set of instructions. What we are out to accomplish has never been done before, at least not by us, so is it not absurd to think we will accomplish what we are out to accomplish without some form of failure?
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2024 Scorecard Download PDF (two-page spreads)
Prerequisites, tuitions, registration and more.
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Read about the 2024 Keynote Speakers
Read about the conference theme and ways to contribute content to the conference.
2025 Call for Papers
Lead a workshop, write a journal paper, present a poster, submit a Report from the Field,
artwork or collaborative video.
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Join our weekly Inquiries of the Social Commons held throughout the year. Fifteen inquiries on Zoom are held at various times each week and offer the opportunity to investigate aspects of six critical topics for someone with a commitment for the world.
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Learn about Inquiry Explorations, the program designed for conference participants who want to be in action all year long on their commitment for the world and develop conversations to launch or forward that commitment.
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