We invite those who have read about Spiraling up, used/adapted it in their work, and/or taught the concept in their classes to join us for a retrospective on the past 20 years: what we’ve learned; what have been challenges; what has changed, and to discuss how we might apply it to the next 20 years, as we face increasingly rapid rates of change in our work. This interactive workshop will focus on emergent work around ‘Spiraling up’ by engaging participants in describing their own work and presenting examples of integrating spiraling up processes such as youth development and placemaking into youth engaged community development approaches, focusing on how spiraling up processes can build on each other in developing community capacity, using spiraling up to identity next stage opportunities as with increasing entrepreneurial activity, and evaluating and reinvigorating spiraling up energies with Ripple Effect Mapping and other reflection activities.
